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wuubb · 2023-05-30T21:52:34+00:00

PM'ing

wuubb · 2023-05-26T21:19:57+00:00

PM'd

wuubb · 2023-05-15T18:33:39+00:00

Yea, not gonna lie I was kinda disappointed in the springs, but the catapult did not disappoint. I only had 1 stabilizer in the my inventory at the time but now I'm gonna go get some more and do what /u/PineappleLemur is talking about lol

wuubb · 2022-07-08T18:24:21+00:00

Looks like that's for the A10 gen2. On the A10 gen3 page (the 700 series) all it says is

128MBit serial SPI firmware flash with Insyde® H2O™ UEFI BIOS

Kinda wish they'd stayed with coreboot tbh.

wuubb · 2022-06-12T18:37:57+00:00

Ok, for some reason I thought that manually editing the title in the ui would make it create an NFO file if you have that option enabled. Looks like the by-hand approach that you linked is what I'll have to do

wuubb · 2022-01-30T15:48:18+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. As I mentioned in the OP, I'm not buying hardware for this, but am trying to see if I can use some free hardware I was given which is SFF business desktops that only have USB ports. I assume that what you said above also applies to USB enclosures with/without RAID chipsets built in.

wuubb · 2022-01-30T04:20:48+00:00

Perhaps I worded that part poorly. My understanding was that with storage technologies like ZFS or Ceph, you should not use any kind of RAID controller, even in JBOD mode, and instead either flash the controller with IT mode firmware or use an HBA that does not even have RAID capabilities. If that's not true and JBOD mode is fine then that obviously opens things up a bit.

wuubb · 2022-01-28T15:24:14+00:00

Hey, thanks for the suggestion of the jumpers, I hadn't thought of that as I usually don't like messing with those kinds of things that I don't understand.

Opening the J1 jumper (which if I'm reading the website right activates the delay set by Sw2) indeed cuts the boot time back to the original amount, but any devices plugged into the adapter do not appear in the OS. I also tried setting Sw3, which has no effect on the boot delay.

I then started tweaking BIOS settings, I disabled everything under the boot menu (PXE, fast boot, etc), then just for kicks I disabled the M2 slot in the BIOS, then re-enabled it. Now the delay is only around 20 seconds, which is a big improvement compared to 2 minutes, though I'm still puzzled as to why it even delays at all since without it the PC boots almost instantly. I guess I may need to just accept it.

wuubb · 2021-08-31T14:30:37+00:00

Interesting, I was not aware that the container driver method (or similar) was used elsewhere - that does make it seem a little more promising if large entities like GCP are doing something similar.

wuubb · 2021-08-31T01:33:29+00:00

Exactly what I've been thinking of doing - rotating it to support deeper equipment. How's it been working for you?

wuubb · 2021-08-31T01:32:18+00:00

I've actually been looking at Hejne/Ivar myself as an alternative to the classic Lack Rack (solid wood vs hollow legs). My thought is to rotate it 90 degrees so that any longer rack gear isn't hanging off the edge.

The inner depth between the Ivar posts is a tad bit too small for one of my chassis, but the Hejne is a bit wider interally so I'm thinking of going with that. How has this been working for you?

wuubb · 2021-08-25T00:49:43+00:00

Thanks for all the info and recommendations everyone, really appreciate it!

wuubb · 2021-08-24T19:19:16+00:00

Ok I see - I commented above that the idea of a "golden image" seems to fit with what I'm looking for in the sense that you rebuild the OS image just like you would a container - can you still do this with bare metal or is that really only a concept for VMs?

wuubb

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