PowerScan test
PowerScan,is based on PR2700 with box-sol’s software named “SpamTrap”. We used three servers,one as mail server,one as pressure server, and the other one is PowerScan.When the power was on,the PR2700 could not start up even without intel’s logo picture.The light in front of server glared in red color.I had to open the chassis in order to check the hardware.I tried to take away the components in order and install them again.It’s my good luck.This server name PR2700 which is original product from intel ran well and the Linux’s kernel started up without error.
In the pressure server,it is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 whose kernel is 2.6.9.The engineer of box-sol told me to send pressure by issuing the “postal” command.I tried to install postal in Red Hat Advance Server 3.0 Update 4,but failed during compiling this program.Finally,in the RHEL 4.0,and only in this operating system,postal could be installed successfully. But the result we got made us surprised,it is even as 50% as the data tested in TaiWan,and just 30% of result in Shanghai.It confused me very much.
In the next morning , When I went to ISC lab and did the pressure test again.I found that the target machine which is PR2700 could not be pinged. I doubted perhaps it was caused by Net environment.Then I checked the network and found it was ok.So I connected one monitor to PR2700.how surprised I am! The server had been halted because the kernel was panic.The warning messages said it seemed one module name afsata2 could not be inserted.
Although I checked the hardware again and again,this matter always happened.It is annoying. Sometimes,I tried to put one SCSI harddisk away from chassis,and then the raid card warned in belling which is so harshness. Intel engineer told me to clear the noise by cover the bell with paper,it is very useful. I fixed this warning problem in the following steps: press “ctrl + G” to enter the raid’s configuration interface,in the harddisk list,I found one was offline.then selected this disk and configure the setting to online.After I did this job,the statue of RAID card was become online instead of offline automaticlly.Howerver,the kernel panic still existed. I could not resolve this matter because I had no account and password to access the linux writed by box-sol in order to check the log file of Linux.So I had to stop this test and send the machine to Shanghai where the server will be installed by engineer of box-sol again. It is estimated that six days will take the break.
Today moring,I called intel 800 service for problem.Hmmm, a sata raid card of 32-bit/66MHz would be installed in slots which is 32-bit/33MHz.but the card would be working in 33MHz frequence.It is campatibility with PCI criteria.