If you are trying to stick a perc5i in a standard pcie slot (I.e you've removed it from a poweredge server that's aquired a better card) theres 2 pins that interfere with the smbus on intel chipsets that need dissconnecting. Cover pins 5&6 on the topside of the board with a bit of tape and it should work.
--- On Wed, 17/2/10, Scott Edwards <supad...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Scott Edwards <supad...@gmail.com> > Subject: dell perc 5 i sas pci-e 8x issues and POST beep codes > To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Date: Wednesday, 17 February, 2010, 12:50 > I have tried the two different dell perc 5i > cards in three different machines now. One HP with a core 2 > duo, an HP with a socket am2 amd, and another HP with a p4 > ht 3ghz machine. I do have a ht 3ghz p4 dell, but I'd > rather not use it with that pc. I prefer to use one of > these in the socket am2 amd machine, as that's already > purposed as my surver running LVM across 4 physical disks, > eventually to migrate the majority of this to hardware > raid5. I don't recall the beep codes I was getting, > but the server was too important to fiddle around with it > for more than an hour or so. That's why I started > trying other machines. > > > I've tried it with the battery installed, and without. > I've tried it with the memory installed, and without. > I've tried it with the sas to 4x sata cables plugged > into drives, and without. > I tried a pci video card just to see if the 16x pci-e slot > was claimed by the onboard video, and can't use both at > the same time etc. > > I've messed around with various bios settings, using > defaults and setting as few properties as neccessary etc... > > Any thoughts? I'm open to your suggestions. Thanks! > > > Scott. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/880255.86259...@web23604.mail.ird.yahoo.com
