We had several SD cards that weren’t correctly identified (reported SD032 and read all 0s), and one Raspberry Pi SD card that got stuck in readonly mode, which shows as (ro) in kernel messages.
Exactly. If you check that list, there’s only one module on the supported list for this board (Pioneer v1.2, Longsys RER432A032G7-WFS100), and that one doesn’t seem to be available to purchase. Thus I report the one I got working.
On the plus side, we’ve confirmed more SD cards function with newer bootloaders.
+ intermittent boot issues after several days of use, appear to be SD timeouts. Not convinced its my SD card, still investigating. See related forum posts.
++ the card does not turn the screen on during boot, so I don’t see boot messages (Plymouth-start), but the desktop shows up once gnome starts. Unplugging and replugging the monitor after the right point during boot will trigger the boot screen to turn on. Most likely a minor driver or related boot config issue.
SATA drive detected in all 5 SATA ports. They are numbered 0-4 (scsi bus) or ata1-ata5 (ahci driver) from the serial connector (ata1 aka 0:0:0:0) to the ATX power connector (ata5 aka 4:0:0:0). Note that sda, sdb, etc are dynamically assigned based on discovery order.
Micron 5200 MTFDDAK480TDC SATA drive
I am booted without a GPU and will be testing some network cards next.
The serial consoles seem to be 3.3V signalling but the included cable with the motherboard is 5V. Doesn’t seem to hurt the motherboard. But that does mean that if you have other FTDI or similar USB to pin-header “TTL” or “Digital” signal devices from Arduino or ESP projects you could probably use them.
I have 4 of these, for 128 GB total. They seem to work perfectly. I have done a full linux kernel compile with all 64 cores in parallel, no memory issues whatsoever. 1 stick seems to work fine too (slot closest to PCIe), but I have not tried 2 or 3 sticks, only 1 or 4.
Ah, so your previous post that these RAM were x4 was incorrect?
If so, that’s good news as it would mean that we might confidently say that it does require “x8” Registered DIMM and that give others more confidence on choices of RAM that work.
Does seem to require x8 modules from my testing. Finally got it to boot with an 8GB Samsung 1Rx8 module. I’ve got another generic 2Rx8 module on the way that I’m going to test on Sunday.
@milkv-caravan yes it appears so. I copy-pasted that original text from the eBay sale where I purchased them. Sorry for the confusion; I’ve updated that post. According to Micron, the part number I’m using is actually 2Gb x 8 (2RX8) Registered ECC.
We can add “AMD Radeon HD 7750” to the list of working GPU cards.
I had an old card in an old system that I transplanted and it’s detected and boots into graphics mode with Wayland in the 2023-10-10 Fedora 38 desktop image.
# lspci -v -s 1:0.0
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 3248
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 66
Memory at 4100000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at 4050000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at 4050040000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [270] Secondary PCI Express
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
We just tested Samsung M393A1K43BB1-CTD 8gb RAM, which DID work, and Samsung M393A4K40CB2-CTD 32gb RAM which did NOT work. Waiting on Micron MTA18ASF4G72PDZ-3G2R 32gb RAM, which we’ll test next. If anyone can suggest other 32gb RAM sticks that worked for them, we can try to get them to confirm.
We’ve also got Mellanox ConnectX-6 DX CX623106A DP/N F6FXM 2x100g Ethernet cards, which are recognized and don’t seem to cause any problems at boot time, but we haven’t yet tried passing packets through them. And we’ve got Intel QuickAssist 8970 cards, likewise, no obvious problems yet, but not yet tested for functionality.
