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Meh.
I just assumed with this many drives, it wouldn't be onboard. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It does look a bit like this was a standard 2x2TB build that they shoved a load of old drives into to sweeten the deal.
It'll work fine for storage. Not like SoftRAID takes a lot of effort.
Looks like I can go to sleep then! Hehe, I know it will be a PITA to try to get CentOS 7 to run on this server... So doesnt matter much. Im praying for the free Yeti though!
Yeah, it even says in the description, 6 bay.
I'll certainly do SW Raid... 2"2TB as RAID 1 and 4x750GB RAID 10.
Hopefully.
...if you ever release the KVM ahah!
I'll be done in under an hour at this rate. Don't stay up for it, because I don't know where you sit in provisioning. I just said I got your KVM because mine was roached. :P
welp
Got a 1 year old RE4 and 1 year old WD SE drive for the 2TB, and mix of 1.5 to 6 year old 750GB drives.
Couldn't figure out how to boot remote media, so ended up using their install system for a SW RAID 1 on the 2TB drives and then configuring a RAID 5 for the 750GB drives.
Don't forget to go into your BIOS and check your Northbridge settings. Mine was set for AGP/automatic, and was not allocating enough memory for IOMMU to actually work. Setting it to 64MB took care of that, so I can run a recent 4.x kernel.
If you want to use their images with KVM for manual installation, use the instructions (you have them in your activation email) that lists the available OS images. Then, in KVM lantronix console, you mount it (there are also instuctions) and when done, you power on the server and get into the bios from KVM to configure it to boot from CD-ROM image. Hope I helped.
This was the part I had an issue with. Couldn't get "Pepper Virtual CD-ROM" (or anything similar) to show up as a BIOS boot option.
I've done a lot of remote installs before just didn't work out this time, but it wasn't difficult to setup what I wanted using their automated provisioning system.
This is not the CD-ROM but a virtual usb flash drive for uploading a new image (they have a centos7 net install as default there, at least for me). But you have to mount first a virtual cd-rom from lantronix control panel using their instructions and the list with isos (you enter the name manually).
The easiest way to install your own OS is to chain to iPXE..
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Also, hardware not happy even after fixing IOMMU. Hope it's just bad cables, but I highly doubt it. The 6 year spinning drive throws a preboot warning. Wooo!
I understand how it works - the normal boot option for a remotely mounted ISO on a spider will display itself as "Pepper Virtual CD-ROM" or something along those lines. I know that it's a virtual drive not a real CD-ROM.
What I'm saying is I couldn't find a boot option for the virtual disk in the BIOS. So I can mount using their local share or remotely using the applet, but I can't boot because the BIOS can't see a virtual disk.
Maybe they left the second USB cable on the KVM unplugged and just had the one for the keyboard plugged in, or they plugged it into a dead USB port, I don't know.
It'll sometimes show as a flash device with these ancient machines.
I gave up and let it do a Jessie/2 drive raid1 install, then dd'd my ISO to sdc, booted from that, and did a rebuild. These KVMs are as painful as these old machines.
Yeah, was looking for something strange but just got entries for the nvidia boot loader, floppy disk and hard drive.
What I did first, was DD the latest iPXE ISO image to sda, then chain from that to do an install. With your network info, you can get it online and chaining to anything within a couple minutes. If I was installing a *BSD, I would have kept with that- but my box died and hung at the bootloader, and I had queued a Debian install, so it went right into that.
Moral of the story: these specials use garbage hardware... but $25 for 7TB of raw storage, just shy of 4TB RAID-ed, can't complain.
Yep. You're paying for unreliable storage. It's almost like dropbox- but you have root!
LETFlix? More like Archive.org.
It's all about the cheap storage...how else can we build the LETFlix network?
I trust it more than a cheap storage vps. At least I know the shitty IOPs are dedicated to me.
Just so long as your SATA cable stays attached. Given the silly issues I've seen within a couple hours, I'd put this on par with most hardware found in a dumpster. If the drives stop having issues and causing bus resets, I'll be happy.
Is this a thing yet? Where's my invite?
I haven't had any of those sorts of issues yet. Maybe mine was pulled from a dumpster in a good part of town?
Well, it is AMD. Give it time..
Getting there, probably going to be something of a loose coalition of individuals offering access to their servers.
Make sure to include your tentacles material @Nekki
Thanks.
Been discussed, only family friendly tentacles will be included.
That's the Norm - Here At LET ..
Wat?