[ofa-general] IB card manufacturer

[sebastien dugue]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:01:22 +0200
sebastien dugue <sebastien.dugue at bull.net> wrote:

> 
>   Hi Jason,
> 
>   a few things you could try to determine who the manufacturer is:
> 
>   - 'mstflint -d 07:00.0 q' will give you some info, especially the HCA GUIDs.
>     The 24 most significant bits of the board GUIDs gives you the manufacturer.
>     For example: 
> 	- 0002c9 Mellanox
> 	- 0008f1 Voltaire

  The complete list is here: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt


> 
>   - try to run 'mstflint -d 07:00.0 dc'. The PS_INFO, ADAPTER and IB sections
>     could give some more hints.
> 
> 
> 
>   Hope this helps.
> 
>   Sebastien.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:03:13 -0400
> Jason Hill <hilljj at ornl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > Being somewhat cautious I'd like to see if anyone can point me at the correct 
> > manufacturer info for an Infiniband card that we bought through a cluster vendor
> > (i.e. it was in the box when we got it). I need to upgrade the firmware to 
> > attempt to isolate an issue we're seeing with several nodes that have this 
> > combination:
> >  
> >  ==> /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/board_id <== 
> >  INT0020000001
> > 
> >  ==> /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/fw_ver <==
> >  1.1.0
> >  
> >  ==> /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/hw_rev <==
> >  a0
> >  
> >  ==> /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/hca_type <==
> >  MT25204
> > 
> > ~$ lspci -vvv
> > <snip>
> > 
> > 07:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA] (rev 20)
> >         Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA]
> >         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- 
> >         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> >         Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
> >         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 50
> >         Region 0: Memory at feb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
> >         Region 2: Memory at fd800000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
> >         Capabilities: <access denied>
> > 
> > On the card itself it has :
> > 
> > Part Number: D83914 
> > Serial Number: MEPT702000093
> > And the card has a tall bracket, but the vendor could have swapped that.
> > 
> > Google has turned up nothing for the Board ID and part number/serial number. 
> > 
> > To me it looks kind of like a Cisco card, so I was thinking it might be a 
> > Topspin. We bought the cluster in 2007.
> > 
> > Would the right thing be to install the MemFree MHGS18-XT firmware, or try a 
> > revision of the MHGS18-XTC?
> > 
> > Thanks for the time and thoughts.
> > 
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