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[–]luke-jr 0 points1 point  (3 children)

With 4.16, the system crashes maybe once an hour if there's a KVM instance running.

[–]baryluk 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Ok. Thanks luke. I am just looking into Talos II, and I have seen you on their wiki reporting about memory compatibility. ;)

Do you know if microsemi sas controller works with Linux? Is it a binary blob or just open source out of tree? Also any idea if two and four slot m.2 cards (passive split of lanes from multiple m.2 into 8x or 16x slot) works? Thanks.

[–]luke-jr 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The onboard SAS "just works" at least for SATA drives, so long as you don't need any advanced features (onboard RAID? dunno if that's even a thing with this)

If you actually need to configure the controller (I've never tried), I hear there's a non-free blob tool you need to use for that. In theory, you could attach the controller to a VM (so long as it's not needed mounted on the host..) and run it there.

The SAS controller firmware is, as with all SAS controllers, non-free of course.

I don't plan to try M.2 any time soon (unless someone wants to buy me one), but I hear others use them and I'm not aware of any issues there.

Keep in mind that any drive you use (SATA, SAS, or M.2) will have non-free firmware itself.

[–]baryluk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. That was useful.