Encountered some frustrating hardware conflicts when adding extra i\/o cards to the RX2600, but eventually deduced that the ‘management board’ was causing these, and so disconnected it.<\/p>\n
I manage to find a low-cost Adaptec SATA board for PCIX, and also a PCIX-to-PCI-Express converter, which enabled me to add USB3 connectivity, which AFAIK was never available on a PCIX board..\u00a0\u00a0 I never managed to get the AGP\/PCIX combo to work, and so stayed with the all-PCIX connector board, and managed to get KDE working successfully, using the old Fedora 9 nv<\/em><\/strong> driver..<\/p>\n I am guessing that the USB3 card (Renesas..) shows up as ‘unknown device’ as Fedora 9’s version of the USB subsystem is not yet capable of recognising it..?<\/p>\n I discovered that Gentoo Linux still had a – relatively – up-to-date IA64 version of their Distro, and more details are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/wiki.gentoo.org\/wiki\/Handbook:IA64<\/a> .\u00a0\u00a0 I tried their ‘latest’ boot CD, but it failed to be recognised, and I found a forum post that mentioned that the last ‘working’ version of this was from 2016, but that is something I can work with, as it includes a 4.x kernel, and there is a more recent (December 2017) equivalent of a rootfs fileset (‘stage3…’) available.. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am by no means an expert on Gentoo, having used Red Hat – later Fedora – since 1997(!), so this will be a useful learning exercise.\u00a0\u00a0 More on this later…<\/p>\n I also understand that Debian are planning to revive their IA64 project (see comments below my original article – https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2111<\/a> )<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon December 17, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Encountered some frustrating hardware conflicts when adding extra i\/o cards to the RX2600, but eventually deduced that the ‘management board’ was causing these, and so disconnected it. I manage to find a low-cost Adaptec SATA board for PCIX, and also a PCIX-to-PCI-Express converter, which enabled me to add USB3 connectivity, which AFAIK was never available on a …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}[root@rgia64 ~]# lspci<\/span><\/strong>\r\n00:01.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n00:01.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n00:01.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n00:02.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 0649 Ultra ATA\/100 PCI to ATA Host Controller (rev 02)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557\/8\/9\/0\/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0d)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n20:01.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic \/ Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n20:01.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic \/ Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n20:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n40:01.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8114 PCI Express-to-PCI\/PCI-X Bridge (rev bd)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n41:00.0 USB Controller: Renesas Technology Corp. Unknown device 0015 (rev 02)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n60:01.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n80:01.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34GL [Quadro NVS 280 PCI] (rev a1)<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n