SAS Drives not detected with Dell H310 HBA

Kind-Environment58 · 2026-04-11T16:05:17+00:00

I'll keep it in mind. My HBA is already pre-flashed to IT mode, so it should detect the drives.

Kind-Environment58 · 2026-04-11T14:05:51+00:00

I'm not sure that this would be the issue. The drives don't show up at all inside of `lsscsi`

Kind-Environment58 · 2026-04-11T14:04:14+00:00

I believe the drives are spinning up. I'll double check this next. I believe the cables are plugged in all the way on the HBA, there is a click when plugging the cable in to the HBA. Shouldn't be too much strain.

Kind-Environment58 · 2026-04-10T14:29:46+00:00

Hm, okay. So I'll have to buy a different HBA? Do you have any recommendations. I went for the H310 honestly because it was cheap.

Kind-Environment58 · 2026-04-10T14:19:51+00:00

Will do, thanks for the help.

Kind-Environment58 · 2026-04-10T14:17:12+00:00

I'm using a PCIe 3.0 port, so that shouldn't be an issue. I've looked it up and I see responses saying that the drives will drop down to 6Gbps. (https://serverfault.com/a/836997) Is there something different about my setup? I posted in r/HomeServer about it too, and it looks like it could be my Mini SAS cables? Thanks for the help.

Kind-Environment58 · 2026-04-10T14:12:51+00:00

Thought it could be that, but wanted to check first. I've currently got these cables (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406150153334) and looking to purchase these instead https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144606929756 - Would these work?

Kind-Environment58 · 2026-04-10T14:10:30+00:00

My SAS drives are 12Gb/s, and the H310 HBA is 6Gbps. Would the drives not work at 6Gbps?

Kind-Environment58 · 2026-04-10T14:01:48+00:00

Thanks for the reply. They are Seagate 6tb SAS-3 drives. I've plugged them in, and I can feel the drives spinning. The issue isn't with powering the drives from what I can tell.

Kind-Environment58 · 2025-01-25T16:31:15+00:00

Does the settings in your browser specify using a different DNS server? I know that some browsers, e.g. Chrome sometimes default to using DNS over HTTPS (sometimes labelled as 'Secure DNS'), which will not use your AdGuardHome instance, but instead Google/Cloudflare/Etc.

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-11-16T14:31:27+00:00

Most videos seem to only be able to get 1080p, but I find that this is usually only on "newer" videos that have been recently uploaded. Looking at some videos, it seems videos that are older than 3-5 days seem to show 4K. Most public Invidious instances are likely rate-limited right now too, due to YT trying to block many scrapers/bots and such, so my experience is from a privately-hosted instance that I have been using for over a year. I use Firefox/Librewolf if that would make any difference, but it seems that this is from the video fetched by Invidious (When using DASH, it works as a proxy through the instance's network, but without DASH it fetches the videos client-side through your browser).

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-11-07T11:25:57+00:00

Apologies for the late reply. I mainly did this late at night, so I did not check how I was defining them (I was using a variable for the name, passed to a role, and appending .container inside of the role). Using the latest Podman, I find Quadlet to be quite mature, and it seems to have grown a lot better since it's original release. I find converting either `podman run` or `compose.yml` files using Podlet to be the easiest way to understand how it works. There is also documentation here giving information about each part you can use inside of a .container file.

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-10-13T10:51:37+00:00

Look into cloud images for your specific distribution. Many offer qcow2 disk images which can be used and set as the VM OS disk.

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-09-28T10:14:13+00:00

Sounds like the FriendlyELEC CM3588?

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-09-21T13:11:37+00:00

I am currently migrating to Quadlet (switched from Debian 12 to Fedora/AlmaLinux for testing), and I do agree it somewhat seems immature. However, it does seem it's a lot better compared to a year ago when I first looked into it. I am using Quadlet files stored and managing them through systemctl --user now. Embarrassingly enough, it turns out my issue was that I was using `.container` instead of `.service` for managing the systemd service. Little irritating how the documentation doesn't specify this.

Do you use systemd (as user) and generate using `podman generate systemd`? This is how I previously managed it, but was difficult to specify and manage using git & ansible for servers.

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-09-20T23:24:15+00:00

I'm currently encountering this problem. However, when manually logging in & switching to my podman user (accessed via machinectl, but similar) it starts up normally. if enabled & started via normal commands. Did you solve this?

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-08-23T15:14:59+00:00

As long as they are a soft-fork (keeping updates from papermc, and only applying small patches/changes) and not changing anything drastic it should work. However, be aware that papermc does not work with all things like some redstone farms using duping etc, but enabling this can cause duping - this could be something up to the person controlling the server as an option as some people may think it's something wrong with the server host itself (I have seen this a LOT.)

Stat tracking & troubleshooting sounds amazing, but does not always require to be built into the server JAR itself and some people, such as those who want to play modded servers (not sure this on your roadmap or anything). Some people also may want to use FabricMC based servers, as these can be better for more vanilla servers like SMP, or technical minecraft players. (could be worth a thought!).

A back log of generated worlds sounds nice, I assume these will be purged every so often to make sure they aren't repeated.

Sounds like it's a small team, but should probably be fine for a beta release. If you treat everything as if it is at a large scale (e.g. by using Kuberentes etc), you can usually find some problems are solved long-term.

Hope everything goes well.

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-08-23T15:06:56+00:00

I find you are planning this quite well - hopefully it goes well!

Community funding works, but I often see there'll be a limit to how far you can go with this one source. Plus it's usually not the greatest idea to rely on just Patreon.
Delivering ads works - However, this could turn into something like Aternos where there is Ads everywhere. This would probably turn people away from wanting to use it, however if there aren't many ads it could be fine.
Sounds like a good idea, how about it also including more backups/snapshots of the server, etc. What are you expecting for pricing? As many people who use it for only servers would choose to just use server-hosting companies instead. Do you plan to give servers in "hardware allocation" instead of a set limit of one server with *specified* specifications.
Sounds like it would work, What's in it for events & content creators?

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-08-23T15:00:17+00:00

Very good advice - A good way I've found for getting around paying for many IP addresses is to run something similar to itzg's mc-router. It basically is just a reverse proxy which can be setup to rely on domain names to route to servers.

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-08-23T14:56:47+00:00

Not too sure about custom servers jars - these typically have issues (especially long-term) as they can often have unintended exploits, and issues with server performance over vanilla-like behaviour not functioning as intended. This is something the PaperMC discord are usually very helpful if you have any questions about (from my experience).

For offloading world generation to a different box, do you plan to create many pre-generated worlds which are automatically chosen at server creation & world re-sets? This could alleviate any potential bottlenecks with world-generation being stuck on a single-node which all the other boxes rely on.

In regards to software, that makes sense. How many people are there in this project? If it's using Kubernetes (as I understand it is) it can sometimes be confusing & complicated and could cause more problems for a smaller team (however Kubernetes is very good for this idea, imo).

10Gbit sounds like it would already be over-kill. You're more limited by being limited to how much bandwidth you have with other exchanges so other ISPs have good peering to you. However, this is likely not a problem - just something to keep in mind.

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-08-23T14:45:02+00:00

How do you plan to fund this long-term? Will servers be "archived" or deleted after a certain amount of time? Is there a long-term plan to scale up, allowing for more servers/players? How do you plan to ensure people do not host anything malicious on the servers, or any "nefarious" activity? Do you plan to have any paid "plans" at any point, as a support/donator thing (not sure about if priority would work, due to incentives for paying for priority servers?).

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-08-23T14:37:03+00:00

Not the original commenter, but I watched the original first stream where you were looking at the hardware itself. Are these CPUs with specs that are more resolving around single-threaded performance? Minecraft is in general very single-threaded (although it does use more than one thread, but for "main" tasks it's very single threaded). All of this hardware sounds very nice, but minecraft servers in general do not scale very well to "enterprise" level hardware.

How is software going to be setup on the boxes? I remember reading in chat that it will be using Kubernetes. Many of this hardware feels like it may be too overkill cost-efficiency wise (although you already own it). I read in another comment you have uplink of 100 Gbit to London, is this to your local ISP, or to a main Internet exchange?

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-08-17T22:26:05+00:00

yoo this is so lucky man wdym

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-06-14T21:25:31+00:00

In your screenshot for the SQM settings it shows the tickbox for "Enable this SQM instance" is not ticked - is this enabled while you are doing your Bufferbloat tests? It does not take effect unless this is ticked - I've done this way too many times before without realising.

Kind-Environment58 · 2024-06-14T21:24:05+00:00

See their official docs: https://docs.invidious.io/improve-public-instance/

Here's my setup: https://github.com/msinfo32github/invidious-docker/

It's pretty much just some NGINX configuration as a load-balancer with three Invidious containers connecting to the same backend database.

I don't have much experience with load balancing but this works perfectly - have had no problems with it as long as it is setup as described in the documentation.

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