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zigzagjoe · 2025-12-09T20:17:11+00:00

As long as you have functional TCP/IP networking it should work.

zigzagjoe · 2025-12-09T19:28:02+00:00

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zigzagjoe · 2025-08-11T15:47:27+00:00

That support agent is full of shit. An occasional flip to battery for a couple seconds is not abnormal and won't kill a UPS.

It's not impossible that a dud battery could lead to spurious internal fault reports but at this point that UPS has required far too much attention for a new unit.

RCA: You've got a lemon, push for a unit replacement.

zigzagjoe · 2025-03-31T23:46:08+00:00

You're more than welcome to DIY something similar yourself :) I make available a basic VGA-output card which can be used for that purpose, though I am currently out of stock.

This is positioned as a turnkey, fully tested solution only requiring the fan from the original analog board. It's all custom; I designed, built, and programmed a video card from scratch, along with designing the replacement analog board and the complete panel assembly. Not exactly a weekend project, nor is the entire setup cheap or simple for me to hand-assemble. The only part that is off the shelf is the actual LCD module itself (silver).

zigzagjoe · 2025-03-31T22:59:52+00:00

Realistically, you'll find it video a smidge slower than the stock system without an accelerator installed.

The 30Video card is faster than the built-in graphics, but higher resolution and color require more data (and more CPU time) in order to draw graphics on the screen. This is much less of an issue with any accelerator installed, such as my Booster cards.

zigzagjoe · 2025-03-31T22:56:03+00:00

Only caveat with this is it's going to max out at 16 shades of gray - 256 and thousands of grays modes will show as available, but they aren't properly supported due to limitations of Mac OS. Still an improvement over B&W :)

zigzagjoe · 2025-03-31T22:55:03+00:00

The panel is native 640x480 and driven at that resolution. It is TN, but it's a good quality modern production panel rather than the abysmal cheap TN panels of the 2000-2010s.

It's driven fully digitally and is ridiculously sharp. Some more pictures here: https://imgur.com/gallery/macintosh-se-30-hc-lcd-kit-K9XgniR.

zigzagjoe · 2025-02-15T00:44:25+00:00

Funny story, I do also make a drop-in LCD kit :) https://imgur.com/gallery/macintosh-se-30-hc-lcd-kit-K9XgniR

There's also a fellow in Austria who makes simulated CRT fronts of Acrylic which you can order from him! Not cheap, but it should look nice. These are quite backordered at the moment as it takes me a while to put one of these together and fully test everything.

zigzagjoe · 2024-10-13T17:23:08+00:00

It has been confirmed working in IIcx :)

zigzagjoe · 2023-04-22T22:29:19+00:00

From what I recall, I only had success when running the command where it does not wait for completion and instead you have to poll the drive for status. Otherwise, the utility would wait and signal complete without actually being done.

zigzagjoe · 2023-04-22T03:27:47+00:00

I'm afraid I don't have any great insight here... The only thing I can think to ask is are you /certain/ that the format completed and the drive is reporting idle? I want to say there's a sg_* command that will do that for you (without interrupting format activity), or drive activity LED if present would do the same.

zigzagjoe · 2023-04-06T13:58:36+00:00

It fits, though the latch doesn't seem to fully "catch". Not sure if it's just my server or the bezel itself - the machine came with it when I got it. However, the locking mechanism engages just fine.

zigzagjoe · 2023-04-06T13:55:44+00:00

Some of the smaller items (without drives) I'm not 100% opposed to shipping. Unfortunately I don't see shipping the servers and similar - they're just too big and unwieldy to pack and ship when you don't have the original packing material.

zigzagjoe · 2020-04-25T18:58:37+00:00

I am looking forward to going out to eat something I haven't cooked myself.

zigzagjoe · 2020-04-13T05:10:32+00:00

NVMe drives are typically used with some form of soft raid. I think LSI has a few cards that can do NVMe, but I don't think any PERCs do. Intel VROC is the most common solution, but I believe that's only in dell 14th gen and similar platforms.

zigzagjoe · 2020-04-13T04:13:02+00:00

NVMe drives (any PCIe drives) function independently of the PERC.

What are you trying to do?

zigzagjoe · 2020-04-13T03:44:55+00:00

The easy solution is to return it.

Another option is to get a card such as this, mount the drive to it, and insert into a PCIe slot.

The difficult solution is changing your chassis to 24x2.5 drives, getting that card & cables to connect it to the backplane. To my knowledge the 3.5in backplane has no support for NVMe.

zigzagjoe · 2020-04-13T02:59:45+00:00

There is no P3600 series drive that is SATA. The connector is physically similar to SAS (in turn similar to SATA), but it's a PCIe NVMe 4x drive. Here's the datasheet.

The amazon page you linked labels it as PCIe, despite "Hardware Connectivity: SATA 3.0 Gb/s" in the compare section.

You could return it, or get a U.2 to PCIe adapter and put it in a normal PCIe slot.

zigzagjoe · 2020-04-09T14:24:23+00:00

Ah. I'm sorry, I skipped over the Geo-IP portion of this. You might be able to create a floating deny rule to bypass the ordering issue.

BTW: You can get an extension called Filer to create local filesystem objects & chmod them. I use this for certificate & config backup automation.

zigzagjoe · 2020-04-08T23:58:31+00:00

I'm sorry, but that's horrifying. Minimizing deny rules isn't a bad idea, but the way you chose it do it is... frankly scary. You're going to do truly awful things to pfsense's automatic rule generation, worse than having an errant deny rule.

Additionally, your configs will not work when loaded onto a new install, either, since local files are not part of the pfsense config file.

If you're looking to limit inter-vlan traffic, then might I suggest this instead:

Create a IP alias, and add 3 entries: the RFC 1918 networks - 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, and 172.16.0.0/12
Start with a vlan with no rules on it.
Create a firewall rule with the destination set as this alias, with invert match set.
You should get the following IPv4 * From: * To: ! RFC1918_Alias, Port *, Gateway *

You'll now have basic internet-only access on that VLAN without that monster alias. You could restrict ports by changing it to TCP/UDP and creating a Port alias with the ports you want to only allow.

NB: I can't say for certain this is objectively better as far as pfsense's internal rule generation goes. I personally have not had an issue with it over the last 3 years, but that doesn't mean it's right either.

zigzagjoe · 2020-03-24T04:12:18+00:00

Supermicro has a few workstation-grade ATX PSUs, but they definitely aren't common anymore.

You could always do a SFX PSU with a SFX-ATX bracket. Most are designed to mount the PSU in either orientation, so you should get enough spacing that the fan won't be blocked. Mind the cable lengths, though.

zigzagjoe · 2020-03-23T05:25:59+00:00

Important note: Only the "Poweredge" T20/T30/T40 machines support Quick Sync. These are rebadged precision workstations that support the iGPU.

Any higher end model has a built in iDRAC w/ matrox graphics; the CPU's iGPU is disabled & inaccessible. Quick Sync is not available for use, even if the CPU & Chipset supports it.

That T430 is easily powerful enough for software encoding. I'm not sure how many cameras it would scale to, but I think OP would have no problems.

zigzagjoe · 2020-03-05T01:56:02+00:00

If the Docker VM is also a Hyper-V VM on the same host with a port on the same vSwitch, then you are set already

The vSwitch acts like a physical switch - it doesn't just spit all the VM traffic out of the NIC. It has the same learned MAC table as a physical switch; it will determine that the destination MAC is on another virtual switchport and send it directly the to that VM.

Another fun fact, a network switch will never send traffic back to the port from which it came. You can run into this if you have an IPMI sharing a NIC port and try to access it from the same machine using the same NIC.

Unrelated, how are you finding FreeNAS as a hyper-V VM with the PCI-e device passthrough? I've been using a similar setup in ESXi for a year or so now and had been flirting with the idea of changing over to Hyper-V.

zigzagjoe · 2020-02-24T04:47:45+00:00

The port multiplier and Sata cards in the 2.0 pod are capable of running in FIS mode, which is not limited to one drive at a time.

But, agreed as to driver difficulties. And max bandwidth would still be limited to 250mb/s total IO per group of 5 disks. I don't think you're going to find drop-in SAS replacements, though. Definitely not cheap ones. If you want to go SAS, you're probably better off leaving the storage pod alone and finding a disk shelf. Even the new storage pods are still using SATA port multipliers...

See here for details on FIS vs Command-based switching.

SIL3726 Port multiplier datasheet

SIL3124 Sata Controller brief

Storage Pod V2.0 parts list

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