Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 19:19:14 -0700 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Mark Kane" <mark@mkproductions.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supermicro X6DVL-EG-2 Compatibility Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608061919u746cf41fwac4f211d8b763ae9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060806203721.71f027d4@localhost> References: <20060806203721.71f027d4@localhost>
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On 8/6/06, Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> wrote: > Hi everyone. Quick hardware question here... > > We're looking to move a dedicated server to a new datacenter with new > hardware. The Dual Xeon boards in the new datacenter are the Supermicro > X6DVL-EG-2 with the Intel E7320 chipset. I see the E7320 listed on > the hardware page for 6.1-RELEASE/amd64 but not for i386. Would this > work with i386? I want to run i386 on this machine just to make sure all > third party software we need will still work, since it is an important > production server, and one application we use is binary only for i386. > > I also don't see the SATA controller (6300ESB) or the onboard NIC > (82541GI) on either hardware lists. I see similar models for the NIC > on the list, but not the "GI". The motherboard spec page does show > different models though, since at the top it says it's the "GI", but > down below it says it's the "PI" on that board. Does neither the SATA or > NIC being listed mean that this board will not work? Is anyone out there > running this board with FreeBSD, and what are your experiences with it? > > I don't know much about Intel hardware since I run AMD on all other > machines, and most any hardware I've ever used with FreeBSD has worked, > but I wanted to check on this before ordering the new server because > we're needing to switch fast and get moved out of the old datacenter > by mid-week. The only other hardware option I see from this datacenter > is an Opteron 170, but I'd like to stick with the Dual Xeons as we > currently have now if at all possible. > > Thanks very much in advance for any info or suggestions. > > -Mark > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7320/X6DVL-EG.cfm > I have a X7DBE that mostly works with FreeBSD 6.x/i386. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm The Ethernet controllers (Intel PRO/1000 EB) don't work with FreeBSD 6.1 but this is being fixed on -STABLE as we speak, there is a em(4) patch waiting for commit... I have not tried to use the 6 port onboard SATA RAID controller... From experience I just assume it not support at all. Your motherboard is a generation behind my board so things should probably work out pretty good for you. here's my dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 7 00:13:42 UTC 2006 root@raidbackup1.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X7DBE ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD APIC > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz (2666.68-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf64 Stepping = 4 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0xe4bd<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>,<b15>> AMD Features=0x20000000<LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> Cores per package: 2 Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 1073086464 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1036750848 (988 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 2 ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 24-47 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: <PTLTD RSDT> on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.MBRD - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0 cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 acpi_throttle1: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu1 acpi_throttle1: failed to attach P_CNT device_attach: acpi_throttle1 attach returned 6 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3 pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci3 pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4 pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.2 on pci3 pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5 pcib6: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci2 pci6: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib6 em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.0.5> port 0x2000-0x201f mem 0xc8200000-0xc821ffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci6 em0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:30:99:c8 em0: [FAST] em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.0.5> port 0x2020-0x203f mem 0xc8220000-0xc823ffff irq 19 at device 0.1 on pci6 em1: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:30:99:c9 em1: [FAST] pcib7: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.3 on pci1 pci7: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib7 pcib8: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 pci8: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib8 pcib9: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 6.0 on pci0 pci9: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib9 pcib10: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci9 pci10: <PCI bus> on pcib10 arcmsr0: <Areca ARC-1220 PCI-Express 8 Port SATA RAID Controller Driver Version 1.20.00.12> mem 0xc8300000-0xc8300fff,0xc8800000-0xc8bfffff irq 16 at device 14.0 on pci10 ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.41 2006-5-24 arcmsr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcib11: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.2 on pci9 pci11: <PCI bus> on pcib11 pci0: <base peripheral> at device 8.0 (no driver attached) pcib12: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 17 at device 28.0 on pci0 pci12: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib12 pci12: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) uhci0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0x1800-0x181f irq 17 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0x1820-0x183f irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0x1840-0x185f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xc8000000-0xc80003ff irq 17 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb3: EHCI version 1.0 usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0 usb3: USB revision 2.0 uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered pcib13: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 pci13: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib13 pci13: <display, VGA> at device 1.0 (no driver attached) isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <GENERIC ATA controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1860-0x186f at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 ichsmb0: <SMBus controller> port 0x1100-0x111f irq 19 at device 31.3 on pci0 ichsmb0: [GIANT-LOCKED] smbus0: <System Management Bus> on ichsmb0 smb0: <SMBus generic I/O> on smbus0 acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcafff,0xcb000-0xcbfff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec ad0: 6149MB <WDC AC36400L 08.09L08> at ata0-master UDMA33 Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle da0 at arcmsr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <Areca ARC-1220-VOL#00 R001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 166.666MB/s transfers (83.333MHz, offset 32, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 2002715MB (4101561856 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 255310C) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! 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