[ofa-general] Cannot bring up mellanox HCAs on HP Nahalem machines running RHEL 5

[Tziporet Koren]

Mike Heinz wrote:
> We've open an OFED PR ( https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663 )
> on this issue, but I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this: We just got
> some brand new HP "gen6" machines - and we cannot get any Mellanox HCA, DDR
> or QDR to come up on those machines - if they are running RHEL 5.3. Machines
> running SLES11 appear to work fine.
>
> The same HCAs work fine on slower machines and on machines running SLES11 -
> has anyone else seen this?
>
> We're running OFED 1.4.1 GA.
>
>   
This should be a firmware issue
Please contact your Mellanox support to get a FW with a fix

Tziporet