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

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Friday 26 June 2009, 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.

I had similar problems. Upgrading the firmware to 2.6.0 (if I remember the 
version correctly) fixed this.

/Peter
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