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

[Mike Heinz]

Peter, Thanks for that information. I think we're already using 2.6, but I'll pass it on to our test group and verify what firmware revision we're using.

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Michael Heinz
Principal Engineer, Qlogic Corporation
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Kjellstrom [mailto:cap at nsc.liu.se] 
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 10:55 AM
To: general at lists.openfabrics.org
Cc: Mike Heinz
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Cannot bring up mellanox HCAs on HP Nahalem machines running RHEL 5

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