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ddc Guru
Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 525
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:57 am Post subject: sgi octane2 R12K gentoo ---> PCI CAGE boards |
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hi,
sgi octane/octane2 could be equipped with a PCI cage, a special unit that makes the machine able to accept PCI boards.
V6 gfx is good enought to be used as text console, but it is not supported as Xfb device: so no X11 on V6.
The idea is to use a matrox m1 or matrox m2, or a voodoo2 pci board plugged in the pci cage.
Also it should be nice to add an USB/firewire/sata support for the octane.
isn't it ?
so, i'm opening this thread to report the hardware that is known to be well running on octane-pci-cage.
Feel free to post about it, or to post about the not working hardware. |
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ddc Guru
Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 525
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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about the pci-cage, in kernel sources you can read
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sys-kernel/mips-sources-2.6.17.10
Things to keep in mind when building a kernel for an SGI Octane:
- Impact (MGRAS) console and X driver work, please report any bugs.
- VPro (Odyssey) console works, but no X driver exists yet.
- PCI Card Cages should work for many devices, except certain types like
PCI-to-PCI bridges (USB hubs, USB flash card readers for example).
- Do not use OHCI-based USB cards in Octane. They're broke on this machine.
Patches are welcome to fix the issue.
- Equally, UHCI Cards are showing issues in this release, but should still
function somewhat. This issue manifests itself when using pl2303 USB->Serial
adapters.
- Other XIO-based devices like MENET and various Impact addons remain
untested and are not guaranteed to work. This applies to various
digital video conversion boards as well. |
i've putted a matrox m2 inside this PCI-XIO bridge, dmesg is reporting that matroxfb: probe of 0001:01:01.0 has failed with an error.
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PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #1:800000@1d800000 for 0001:01:01.0
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
fakephp: Fake PCI Hot Plug Controller Driver
BRIDGE: Memory #0, size 0x4000 for little-endian 0001:01:01.0 --> direct 32-bit at bus 0x01000000 vma 0x000000d041000000
BRIDGE: Memory #6, size 0x10000 for little-endian 0001:01:01.0 --> direct 32-bit at bus 0x01010000 vma 0x000000d041010000
matroxfb: Matrox Millennium (PCI) detected
matroxfb: video RAM is not available in PCI address space, matroxfb disabled
matroxfb: probe of 0001:01:01.0 failed with error -1
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Pliablemammal n00b
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 52 Location: Sacramento
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:38 am Post subject: google for it, it's selling somewhere online for $58 |
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I found it about 3 weeks ago on google for $58 - WAAAAYYY less than any of the people on eBay have had it for. If their is good support this would open up things like USB / Firewire support which would totally kick ass. |
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e-ipi Apprentice
Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 192
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: google for it, it's selling somewhere online for $58 |
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Pliablemammal wrote: | I found it about 3 weeks ago on google for $58 - WAAAAYYY less than any of the people on eBay have had it for. If their is good support this would open up things like USB / Firewire support which would totally kick ass. |
People have done USB with the pci cardcage. Unless I'm mistaken, there were/are problems with USB storage. My solution for the USB storage problem is to plug usb devices into my laptop. I can then access them remotely through the gigabit ethernet card in the pci adapter.
$58.00 (US?) is a good deal for a pci cardcage. I had to get a whole 'nother Octane to get mine. It was a good deal, too, but I think I would have gone the $58.00 dollar route had I known about it. |
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ddc Guru
Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 525
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: google for it, it's selling somewhere online for $58 |
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People have done USB with the pci cardcage. Unless I'm mistaken, there were/are problems with USB storage. My solution for the USB storage problem is to plug usb devices into my laptop. I can then access them remotely through the gigabit ethernet card in the pci adapter.
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hi,
modern computers can use SAN and NAS solutions about storage
- SAN (Storage Area Network)
- NAS (Network Attached Storage)
to do NFS, i'm using my embedded walnut-ppc405 (it costs < $100) , equipped with a native ATA controller, and with 2 PCI slot where i plugged a PCI-2-sata (gentoo is running on this board, this means we could have a good support for all the pci devices supported on the linux kernel tree)
So i can add sata disk to my octane2 using NFS, but we are speaking about an home-made tini-NAS that is working with 10/100Mbit ehernet connection, all based on gentoo
this is not the best solution i aim for: i really want to use the pci cardcage with a sata and usb card inside
in the future, with a good pci cardcage we will do.
(and we also add a matrox or vodoo, making us abled to use X11 on ocatne2) |
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legacy Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 144
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Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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anybody experiment success with some pci-usb cards ? if so which chips ?
VIA ?
NEC ?
ALI ?
Which model ? |
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legacy Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 144
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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i got great success with the NEC PCI USB
i had to hack the kernel 2.6.17.14 a bit
(all kernels > .17 are simply not working)
but now i have an USB hard drive pretty working |
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