XServe G4 with PCI-X Fibre Channel Card doesn't Work

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XServe G4 with PCI-X Fibre Channel Card doesn't Work

Hi there!

We got a PCI-X Fibre Channel Card from Apple in our XServe G4 (First Modell). The Card can be seen in the System Profiler but we can't access the XServe RAID which is connected to the Card. We tried to do all settings by hand and tried Point-to-Point and AL but it wont help. After a couple of reboots we could use it with the Disk Utility but we cant delete it. The utility crashes after a couple of hours.

Can anybody help us?

Philip

Xserve G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jan 4, 2007 6:23 AM

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DaddyPaycheck

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Jan 4, 2007 7:05 AM in response to plaetzchen

plaetzchen-

What physical hardware is between the XServe and the RAID?

My guess is bad cable or switch.

Luck-

-DaddyPaycheck

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plaetzchen Author

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Jan 4, 2007 7:19 AM in response to plaetzchen

The RAID ist connected directly to the Xserve G4 with Apple copper cables. We changed the cables allready but that wont work.
The Xserve has a 32 and a 64 Bit port for PCI Cards, right? Which one is the 32Bit? The upper or the lower one on the raiser card?

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Jan 4, 2007 7:22 AM in response to plaetzchen

plaetzchen-

My memory is terrible and it has been a few years.

This document should detail that information. It is the XServe G4 User's Guide.

Luck-

-DaddyPaycheck

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plaetzchen Author

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Jan 4, 2007 7:30 AM in response to plaetzchen

I'm surry but this is not the right document. This is for the slot load Xserve G4. We got the very first one.
Thank you for the help anyway.

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Jan 4, 2007 8:53 AM in response to plaetzchen

plaetzchen-

Ah.

You mean this one?

I couldn't locate any actual manuals but perhaps that document will give enough details.

Luck-

-DaddyPaycheck

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plaetzchen Author

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Jan 4, 2007 9:03 AM in response to plaetzchen

I know this site but it doesn't help me. Anyway I'll trie to put the card in another slot.
Does anybody uses this combination? A Xserve G4 and a X serve RAID (The latest modell)

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Jan 4, 2007 9:44 AM in response to plaetzchen

What does the Fibre Channel Utility say?

It's a simple tool but does it:
1) Show the card
2) Report the ports as "up" and give a speed?

It seems that if it's doing those things the card is okay and you could look further downstream. Any chance you have a fibre switch or something else you can plug it into just as a test of the card/cable keeping the RAID out of it for now?

=Tod

G5/2.0x2, Dual XServes x2, XRAID, beige G3 501Mhz

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Jan 4, 2007 10:06 AM in response to plaetzchen

My apologies. As mentioned before my memory is not so good and I was trying to get oriented to the product.

The information that you are looking for is in the document provided. Apparently either full length slot will give you the bandwidth. I do believe that the bus will kick down to whatever the slowest speed card installed can handle.

Luck-

-DaddyPaycheck

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plaetzchen Author

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Jan 4, 2007 5:08 PM in response to Tod Kuykendall

The card is found normaly but not always. The speed is given sometimes after a couple of reboots. But handling the RAID with the disk utility is not possible at all.

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plaetzchen Author

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Jan 11, 2007 4:19 AM in response to plaetzchen

We found the answer on our own!
We swapped the slots of the VGA Card an the Fibre Card and evrything is cool now. Both cards work without any problems.

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