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Hi! I would need an advice from those that use IB (as admins :) ) i have a choice between : 1. Mellanox InfiniHost? III Lx HCA card, single-port CX4, DDR, PCIe x8, mem-free, tall bracket, RoHS R5 2. QLogic Single Port 20 Gb InfiniBand to x16 PCI Express Adapter (Single Pack) aside the price is there anything else that could help me make a discrimination between this two? (these will be used in twin servers f...

...0000:00:00.0 failed with error -11 ======================= === Host modprobe.conf === alias eth0 bnx2 alias eth1 bnx2 alias scsi_hostadapter cciss options pciback hide=(41:00.0) ===================== === Host lspci output === # lspci -vs 41:00.0 41:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA] (rev 20) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 170a Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16 Memory at fdc00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1M] Memory at fd000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8M] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities:...

...0000:00:00.0 failed with error -11 ======================= === Host modprobe.conf === alias eth0 bnx2 alias eth1 bnx2 alias scsi_hostadapter cciss options pciback hide=(41:00.0) ===================== === Host lspci output === # lspci -vs 41:00.0 41:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA] (rev 20) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 170a Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16 Memory at fdc00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1M] Memory at fd000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8M] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities:...

...ge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 04:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA] (rev 20) 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE] (rev a1)

...:/data ================================== I can't mount the damn thing. This seems to be a fairly frequent problem according to google.. Again, all servers and clients are ubuntu 10.04.3/64b, running self-compiled 3.3b1. the IB device is: 02:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA] (rev a0) dmesg says: ================================== $ dmesg |grep ib_ [ 12.592406] ib_mthca: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA driver v1.0 (April 4, 2008) [ 12.592411] ib_mthca: Initializing 0000:02:00.0 [ 12.592777] ib_mthca 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 17 (l...

Hello, I see a reproducable panic when doing ibping and aborting it with ^C. My setup is two machines with Mellanox Infinihost III HCAs (one Linux one FreeBSD) connected back-to-back. Details below. I can upload 2 crash dumps, if this is useful. For some reason the port doesn't become ACTIVE, so no packets arrive, but that is probably unrelated. % uname -a FreeBSD cosel.inf.tu-dresden.de 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE...