A Penguin in Purple Clothing

Thursday October 07, 2004

Got the LSI card working

The problem with the card turned out to the be the firmware of the SAS drive from Fujitsu. Once that was updated, the drive loaded and I was able to play with it on Linux.

In other news, I went to the Palo Alto office of Sun to help bringup an Opteron board in anticipation of our own efforts. They had never tested 64-bit Linux on the system (only 32 bit Linux and 32 bit Windoze). Got that up and mostly working. Unfortunately, the link to the Palo Alto office is only over a T1, so getting the software loaded was taking forever. I will be going back next week to finish what I started.

I wanted to go today, but they didn't have a board for me to work on. It seems that as soon as they get a board working and debugged, it is snatched up for somebody in the company and leaves their office.

I am off tomorrow with my finace to go to Massachusettes and Maine to scope out a place to potentially get married next summer. I will be back on Tuesday. (2004-10-07 13:21:37.0) Permalink