From owen at fixstars.com Wed Aug 8 07:33:20 2012 From: owen at fixstars.com (Owen Stampflee) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:33:20 -0700 Subject: [powerstation-owners] Introducing the PowerLinux 7R2 Yellow Dog Appliance and Yellow Dog Linux 7 Message-ID: Dear Yellow Dog users, past and present, Fixstars is pleased to introduce the PowerLinux 7R2 Yellow Dog Appliance available exclusively with Yellow Dog Linux 7. The combination will offer customers the cost and performance efficiency of the Power7 processor and the no cost, open source licensing of Yellow Dog Linux. The PowerLinux 7R2 Yellow Dog Appliance offers integration of new Linux-specific POWER7 processor-based hardware with industry-standard Linux software in Yellow Dog Linux 7. The appliance is useful for providing high performance storage, analyzing Big Data, managing industry-specific applications and delivering open source infrastructure services. Yellow Dog Linux 7 is based on Enterprise Linux 6 and features many improvements to take advantage of the PowerLinux 7R2 appliance. It offers Linux kernel 2.6.32, Glibc 2.12, and both gcc 4.4.6 and 4.7.0. Application performance may be boosted with Gcc 4.7.0's VSX auto-vectorization and Yellow Dog's compatibility with other high performance compilers. Fixstars is offering the ready to use 16-core (two processor) 3.55GHz POWER7 7R2 Appliance with 32GB of RAM and two 160GB SAS drives for the introductory price of $14,990USD including XXX For more information, please visit: http://www.fixstars.com/en/hardware/power/?utm_source=mlist&utm_medium=pl&utm_campaign=po Fixstars also offers the "Eiger EG-2S", an embeddable logic board that features a Cell/B.E. processor and 512MB of XDR RAM. The Eiger EG-2S is well suited for image processing, signal analysis and many other applications. http://www.fixstars.com/en/hardware/cellcb/?utm_source=mlist&utm_medium=eg&utm_campaign=po - The Yellow Dog Linux Team From adconrad at 0c3.net Wed Aug 22 02:49:01 2012 From: adconrad at 0c3.net (Adam Conrad) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:49:01 +0000 Subject: [powerstation-owners] SATA drives on the SAS controller Message-ID: <20120821174901.GE23052@0c3.net> Hi, Not sure if anyone's still reading this list. I have an old PowerStation that I used in it's original shipping configuarion for years for Ubuntu PowerPC porting, but I'm finally looking at messing with that original setup. I know that some (most?) SAS controllers can handle SATA drives being used instead, but I also know this isn't a universal truth, and was hoping someone on the list had already experimented with such configuations with the PowerStation so they can tell me in advance if it will or won't be a terrible idea. :P Also curious if there are drive size limits, if any of this can be overcome by flashing the "latest" and greatest firmware (which I never did in the past, like I said, my machine is still stock). Any advice given would be appreciated. ... Adam From adrian at lisas.de Wed Aug 22 15:43:31 2012 From: adrian at lisas.de (Adrian Reber) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:43:31 +0200 Subject: [powerstation-owners] SATA drives on the SAS controller In-Reply-To: <20120821174901.GE23052@0c3.net> References: <20120821174901.GE23052@0c3.net> Message-ID: <20120822064331.GD31426@lisas.de> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 05:49:01PM +0000, Adam Conrad wrote: > Not sure if anyone's still reading this list. I have an old PowerStation > that I used in it's original shipping configuarion for years for Ubuntu > PowerPC porting, but I'm finally looking at messing with that original > setup. > > I know that some (most?) SAS controllers can handle SATA drives being > used instead, but I also know this isn't a universal truth, and was hoping > someone on the list had already experimented with such configuations > with the PowerStation so they can tell me in advance if it will or won't > be a terrible idea. :P In theory you are correct, but unfortunately the firmware on the SAS controller does not know how to handle SATA drives. The best solution would be to plug in a SATA controller and connect the drives there. You still need a SAS drive on the original controller to boot from. Adrian From thuth at linux.vnet.ibm.com Wed Aug 22 18:01:52 2012 From: thuth at linux.vnet.ibm.com (Thomas Huth) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:01:52 +0200 Subject: [powerstation-owners] SATA drives on the SAS controller In-Reply-To: <20120822064331.GD31426@lisas.de> References: <20120821174901.GE23052@0c3.net> <20120822064331.GD31426@lisas.de> Message-ID: <20120822110152.50e6f1a4@thhw500> Am Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:43:31 +0200 schrieb Adrian Reber : > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 05:49:01PM +0000, Adam Conrad wrote: > > Not sure if anyone's still reading this list. I have an old PowerStation > > that I used in it's original shipping configuarion for years for Ubuntu > > PowerPC porting, but I'm finally looking at messing with that original > > setup. > > > > I know that some (most?) SAS controllers can handle SATA drives being > > used instead, but I also know this isn't a universal truth, and was hoping > > someone on the list had already experimented with such configuations > > with the PowerStation so they can tell me in advance if it will or won't > > be a terrible idea. :P > > In theory you are correct, but unfortunately the firmware on the SAS > controller does not know how to handle SATA drives. The best solution > would be to plug in a SATA controller and connect the drives there. You > still need a SAS drive on the original controller to boot from. Please also note that the drive you want to boot from has to be smaller than 2 TB. The firmware does not support the new GUID partition tables, so you're limited by the standard DOS-style partition table. Thomas