M1015 (9211-8i) Cent7.5.1804 non-operational

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M1015 (9211-8i) Cent7.5.1804 non-operational

Post by sevendollarbill » 2018/11/20 04:27:34

dmesg and messages:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1X1glC ... aaBQE5K6Bc
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gSPfb ... XG9d_9Eont

System Specs:
AMD 2970wx
ASRock Fatality x399 Professional Gaming
96GB Kingston Hyperx Ram
WD Red 3TB drives x6
IBM M1015 ((112-8i IT)
GTX 1080 Gigabyte G1 x2
Enermax sTR4 Watercooler

I have tried a couple different version of firmware for my Mobo, 3.03 and 3.33A (Beta). I have tried P16, P18, P19, P20 firmware for the IBM M1015. Nothing seems to work. Its operational for a while, then drops while in use. I have a Noctua 3000RMP dan pointed a tthe thing so I wouldnt assume its overheating. I tried booting with pci=realloc=off and that didnt seem to help. Should I just give up and get a better HBA? Any suggestions on what to get? I bought a *NEW* card thinking maybe mine was overheating or something, I've had it for a long time. But the new one experiences the same thing. WHen I flash the firmware I dont flash the mptsas2.rom. Sometimes the BIOS for the M1015 reports a 01h error which someone says that its the slot. I have 2 slots to put it in, because my GPUs are using both x16 slots. so all thats left are 2 and 4. It seems to be even more unreliable in slot 4. ANy suggestions?

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Re: M1015 (9211-8i) Cent7.5.1804 non-operational

Post by TrevorH » 2018/11/20 07:33:36

Sure looks like hardware errors to me...
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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Re: M1015 (9211-8i) Cent7.5.1804 non-operational

Post by tunk » 2018/11/20 11:01:35

That card is quite old, and it could possibly be a PCIe version compatibility problem.
Is there any settings in the bios for this?

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Re: M1015 (9211-8i) Cent7.5.1804 non-operational

Post by sevendollarbill » 2018/11/20 11:29:16

You know, I never thought to try that. Once I get to work I'll pull up the manual and see if I can change it. If I can't, do you have any recommendations as to what card I should use?

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Re: M1015 (9211-8i) Cent7.5.1804 non-operational

Post by theoriginalguru » 2018/12/04 07:53:13

So, you are saying you have an old M1015 (flashed to IT mode), and a brand new M1015 (flashed to IT mode), and both are behaving exactly the same way as shown in your log messages? Or, do they behave differently in anyway?

One thing to potentially look at is the SMBus on PCI-E pins 5/6. If your mobo uses SMBus on the PCI-E slot, IBM/Lenovo may also have SMBus signal from the M1015 card and there could be something conflicting going on there that takes the card offline. If *both* new and old M1015 are behaving the same way, I would look at trying to tape pins B5 B6 like in this video:

https://youtu.be/HBnNaheYmdA

Also, when the card goes offline, if you rescan the PCI bus, does it come back? something like this:

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echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan

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