I have generally had good luck with Promise products. Today I had an order put in for two Promise TX4 cards. These are potential replacements for my RocketRAID 1820 cards. If they work I might be getting twentytwo more of them.
On June fourth I resolved my HighPoint RocketRAID 1820 issues, or so I thought. The drives on the RocketRAID 1820 cards have been getting little use until yesterday when I tried copying some data on them. Linux, probably because of the proprietary driver, started returning errors:
SCSI error : <0 0 4 0> return code = 0x25050000 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 614175 Abort called pid: 5357 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0 Abort called pid: 5358 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0 Abort called pid: 5359 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0 Abort called pid: 5360 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0 Abort called pid: 5361 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0 Abort called pid: 5362 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0 Abort called pid: 5363 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0 Abort called pid: 5364 target: 4 lun: 0 reason 0 RR182x: Bus Reset: host=0, channel=0 target=4
I can’t get the systems to consistently do it.
Some have been asking of Zoë’s size, height and weight at birth. Even though she is several years before considering going into a boxing ring, she was a sprite 17¾ inches at 5 pounds 13 ounces.
As predicted, there is a little creak in the bones this morning. Hopefully I can get back to my old schedule now, I haven’t been at work before 06:00 since before Zoë was born. Hopefully I can spend time this afternoon with 余艾蕾, I felt I neglected her yesterday.
Last Saturday Chris Quanstrom and his fiancée stopped by to meet Zoë. I got them to help move a sofa upstairs, it was a pain but we did it. Today I came into work and I have to move all kinds of furniture and system racks around to provide a path to move in some new equipment. My bones where already creaky, tomorrow is going to be pain.
As of June eighteenth, at 21:39 EDT 豆豆 is now Zoë Sigrid Heinicke. Both mother and child are doing fine, and I’m going to try to get some sleep. More detail to come within the next few days.
The last thing I did yesterday was complie the 2.6.6 I²C drivers in the 2.6.3 kernel. The first thing I did this morning was try the patch HighPoint sent me in between. It was a short modification to their code, and it works. Thanks HighPoint support and programmers.
Hopefully the fix will make it to HighPoint’s site soon. I would put the patch here, but I don’t thrust the copyright of it.
My I²C woes continued today. I have twelve SUPER X5DPA-GG systems with HighPoint RocketRAID 1820s. HighPoint provides an “OpenBuild”, currently v1.02, but this doesn’t build on Linux kernels above 2.6.3. I need I²C working because these machines are in a room with a history of AC problems. The SMBus devices on the SUPER X5DPA-GG don’t work with the I²C drivers from the 2.6.3 kernel, but with the 2.6.6 kernel do.
After I submitted a support request to HighPoint, I set of finding my own solution. I got lucky. I simply replaced the I2C directory in the 2.6.3 kernel source tree with the one from the 2.6.6 kernel. Reconfigure and rebuilt the kernel, and it works like a charm!
I hope HighPoint gets back with a new driver. Hopefully this time they will open source it and not just “OpenBuild” it. Whatever “OpenBuild” means. I might of tried to fix it myself if it was open source.
Every Memorial Day when it’s not too rainy a parade marches past my front door. This year, my parents, brother, close friend Chris Quanstrom and his fiancée stopped by. After the parade I served some Belgium waffles. I got a Belgium waffle press as a wedding gift, so whenever waffles are made in this house they are always of the Belgian variety.
To go with the waffles, I got some bacon from Ely Pork Products. I cooked them according to Alton Brown‘s Scrap Iron Chef’s Bacon
recipe. Well, to be precise, I only used the last paragraph of the recipe, the entire recipe makes bacon from scratch. The last paragraph says:
Place the strips of bacon onto a sheet pan fitted with a rack and place into a cold oven. Turn the oven to 400°F and cook for about 12 to 15 minutes, depending on how crispy you like your bacon. Remove from rack and drain on paper towels. Enjoy.
It worked out great! everybody loved them, I just didn’t get enough. So thank you Mr. Brown. Later this day I got a copy of your book I’m Just Here for the Food to give as a gift to somebody (I don’t think anybody reads my blog, so I’m not to worried about that person guessing it’s for him). I already have my own copy.
On Tuesday I got
Using Debian’s debootstrap package I installed an extra partition with on a separate server with Sarge. In order to use the lm-sensors detection I wanted a kernel that has the I²C configured as much like Debian’s shipped kernel as possible but also be NFS root bootable. I took the latest stable 2.6.x kernel from The Linux Kernel Archives, and the latest 2.6.y kernel configuration file from the latest configured Sarge package; x=6 and y=5 at the time I built them. I made sure CONFIG_ROOT_NFS, CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP was on, and the network card was staticly linked too. After building the kernel I installed the modules in the Sarge partition.
I configured an NFS server to export said made Sarge partition with no_root_squash on. Set up TFTP with PXE files. Then set up a DHCP server to boot that system via PXE. Remote booting the system went fine and the sensors-detect command mostly reported accurate information.
I build a kernel with our in-house specifications, included the discovered I²C packages. Now it gleefully reports the CPU temperatures. Even though it feels like I used a jack hammer to plant a daisy, it now works.
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