11i V1 and quadrics support

[Mazzini Alessandro]

Hello,

in the hope that someone would check and could help, I've put a quadrics
card inside a pa-risc box using 11i v1. My question is related to the
driver.. is it supported ? is included and should be activated in the
kernel? (name) is to be downloaded or etc ?

Thanks in advance

Alessandro

[Mazzini Alessandro]

Quadrics SC40 QM-400 , to be precise. I was told it should be supported by
hp-ux


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[Rick Jones]

Mazzini Alessandro <mazzinia$$$$@tin.it> wrote:
> Quadrics SC40 QM-400 , to be precise. I was told it should be supported by
> hp-ux

I cannot speak to that specific card, but broadly speaking (meaning
there have been perhaps a couple exceptions in the past but not many)
the drivers supplied by HP for HP-UX will only claim cards with HP
subvendor and subproduct IDs. "Generic" from the same OEM will not be
claimed.

You might also check the output of ioscan to see that the card is seen
at all.

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[Mazzini Alessandro]

It's seen as Pci Network (14fc0000) , obviously unclaimed. I think the
driver in general may be missing, actually... I don't see in sam any
loadable driver for Interconnect support


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[Rick Jones]

Mazzini Alessandro <mazzinia$$$$@tin.it> wrote:
> It's seen as Pci Network (14fc0000) , obviously unclaimed. I think the
> driver in general may be missing, actually... I don't see in sam any
> loadable driver for Interconnect support

I'm guessing you have a system with PCI-X slots. If you are simply
after greater interconnect bandwidth and do not actually "need"
Quadrics you could go with the AB287A/AD144A (different product number
for the same underlying part number) 10GbE NIC. It is PCI-X 1.1
133MHz so a guaranteed not to exceed 7 Gbit/s card. There is also the
AD385A, a PCI-X 2.0 266 MHz card that should be able to achieve
link-rate in one direction or the other (depending, of course, on
available CPU horsepower). While those were based on Neterion
XFrame-mumble chips, again, the HP-UX drivers will only claim those
cards, not "pure" Neterion cards.

rick jones
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[Mazzini Alessandro]

Interesting suggestion, but the thing is that I got donated 3 of these
Quadrics cards and from a purely hobbyist point of view, would suffice.
Yes, I'm having a system with pci-x slots, a c8000. I think that the main
issue, at this point, is if hp-ux has a bundle somewhere with support for
Quadrics cards (in general, hp branded).
If I'm not mistaken they were used in Superdomes, before moving to
Infiniband solutions

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[Mazzini Alessandro]

Ah well... maybe it's a lost cause

3x-ccnna-aa is the card part number. I'm finding it referenced for SC40 and
SC45 Alpha clusters using Tru64, as an hp sold part


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[Rick Jones]

Mazzini Alessandro <mazzinia$$$$@tin.it> wrote:
> Ah well... maybe it's a lost cause

> 3x-ccnna-aa is the card part number. I'm finding it referenced for
> SC40 and SC45 Alpha clusters using Tru64, as an hp sold part

Yeah, I do not recall any HP-UX Quadrics. The "cluster" interconnects
"back in the day" for HP-UX systems were "LoFat" (based on
FibreChannel, IIRC - back in the days of the K-class) and Hyperfabric
(based on Myrinet) before Infiniband and 10GbE came along.

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