Recent content by pricklypunter

Hahahaha, it's been so long since I did this, that I can't remember for sure now which was the correct pad, but I'll go with the one that shows where the wire is soldered. I guess I screwed up putting the annotation on the photo. They say that the camera never lies, that's my excuse and I'm...

I am firmly in the Debian camp, with or without a GUI. It's rock solid and easy to maintain. Help and resources are readily available and there's a massive community of users that will almost certainly be able to work through issues with you if you have them. All bar one of my servers are...

I stopped commercially repairing monitors after the first half dozen cfl tube swaps :) Anything beyond a power supply repair now is just not economical, for me or a customer. I still do my own and an odd one for friends, but modern monitors are just e-waste in waiting. If you do find anywhere...

Not advisable. While the controller can handle both protocols, you are playing with fire trying to do that in the same array. Better to build another array and bit copy your data over :)

Only in a degraded state, providing they stay attached to the cord :D

You know it's only quieter because it moves your Ethernet cord 3" away from your switch, right? ;):D

Supermicro hands down imo

Perhaps, as with anything else, things become more reliable per iteration/ cycle. That said, any software update comes with risk attached and Dell churn out that many things, that software is not generally given enough attention imo. Read what's in front of you in the documentation. Often with...

Obviously they are not working you hard enough, if you had time for this ;):D Congratulations to you both!

Happy days :)

Are the disks formatted to 512e, not some funky 520 or something? Have you tried installing an OS onto a direct attached disk?

Before you do anything, bit copy/ image both disks onto known good media. You can use dd or similar to achieve this. If all else fails, you can return the disks to their pre-existing states and try again, as many times as you like, before hopefully/ successfully recovering your data. You can...

Just so folks understand, a recovered "good" image file, from a working iDRAC6 board is likely copyright to Dell, or at least in that grey area where what happens behind closed doors for personal use...Anyway, I won't openly post a file for this, for that reason and that I have no wish to get...

A sm x9scm-f, 32GB of unbuffered ecc DDR3, a v2 E3 chip and a cheap Raid/ HBA card is heading in the right direction :)

Unlikely. 1U = 1.75" or 44.45mm, therefore 3U = 133.35mm. If you remove known component heights like Mainboard standoff's, board thickness, socket+chip/ heatsink mount height etc and allow a few mm of clearance to the inside of the lid, that should give you the ballpark height of any heatsink...