Recent content by gargravarr

I heard about those. Thankfully both the JMicro and ASMedia cards I bought have backing plates.

So I finally got around to revisiting this. I bought myself an LTO-6 drive at a bargain price, and in a reverse of what happened here, the drive got here and immediately threw a fault code on being installed in my library. However, I decided not to give up, even though the seller would refund me...

So I swapped out the 10Gb card for the ASM1166. Live-booting into Ubuntu showed the card and 4 SSDs as detected. Then I rebooted into TrueNAS and got a horrendous wall of thousands of pcieport errors. Something in this chain doesn't like my setup.

Sure, I was generalising these types of motherboard, since there seems to be a vast array of them, all very similar, inexpensive and built for a specific use case.

And good luck figuring that out from an AliExpress-special type motherboard, I guess...

Rats. Which leads into my other question, what determines whether an m.2 slot is capable of connecting to non-NVMe devices?

I was under the impression that NVMe and PCIe were (essentially) the same thing?

Hi folks, I built a TrueNAS machine around a BKHD N510X motherboard a couple of months ago. It performs well and it's got a good list of features (I got the base-model Celeron N5100 option). I spec'd it with 16GB of DDR4-2666, an Intel 600p 256GB NVMe boot SSD and 6x WD Enterprise 6TB SATA...

Yeah... that's why I want to use 2.5Gb... I knew about the bluetooth bit, didn't think the wifi would be too. So I did some further testing. The wifi card is definitely connected via PCIe interface - under Ubuntu, I'm able to see it in `lspci` and see that it has a link width of 2.5GT/s 1x. And...

Hey folks, Not sure if this is specifically networking or the USFFs themselves. Haven't had any luck on Reddit though. This is mostly copy/pasted from that thread. I'm running a Proxmox cluster on a quartet of old HP 260 G1 USFFs. They're very low power and cheap so I have no need to upgrade...

Something I can contribute - I'm using an S600WP-5GT-2SX_SE with a Dell/Amphenol 10Gb 0.5m DAC (P/N 0C6Y7M) to another switch, works no problem.

So, good news, I solved the immediate problem. Writing all 4TB of media to tape and reading it back on a separate machine worked perfectly. I spot-checked some files with MD5 checksums and they matched. Then the ITDT test passed. I was able to exchange the drive with the buyer and they tested it...

Okay, so the replacement grabber allows it to load tapes. However, I then get a write error in ITDT: "MOUNT TAPE": { "START TIME": "Sun Feb 12 09:25:03.292 2023" , "DURATION": 60233 , "TEST RESULT": "PASSED" , "RESULT CODE": "OK" , "TARGET STATUS": "Status Good" , "HOST...

Okay, so the grabbers are not cross-compatible but at least they're easy to tell apart without opening the drive: Up to LTO-4 uses the left design, with a large black plastic circle protruding from the casing. LTO-5 and on uses the right design, with a small black circle and a metal retaining...

Now that's some valuable information, Stephan, thanks. So far my tapes don't seem to be damaged - I think the broken grabber fails to lock onto the pin, period, so the drive records no tension when it tries to load the tape (I stepped it through by hand and it didn't latch). I swear I tested...