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I mostly just want them for entertainment purposes. Although their 'coverage' (misleading/ignorant often) of the storage stuff, my background, does irk me. I am not consciously aware of the youtuber talking about that switch. I have a couple of the Mikrotiks and an Arista 7160 so I'm good on...

What? Watching a youtuber? The OEM fw process he was attempting to do? That he was attempting to make it go in Windows? Going to need some more exposition here. The Ciscos are known good? I'm not a fan of Windows, but his lack of windows driver access, failure at making them work (in...

You might have to amend/reevaluate your pricing data here. I just watched a sort of part 2 (let it run ~+20s from that index) of a youtuber trying to get 100G in the homelab. It appears that he may have purchased one of these cheaper ConnectX-6 cards and gotten into a similar situation as I...

On another note, I have been able, w/some assistance/pressure from ebay to get the seller to take the cards back and issue a refund. I would have been happy to have received actual Intel cards per the listing but I guess if the seller had those in the first place this wouldn't have been an...

Apologies, I had meant to address/confirm this as well. After installing Intel's driver package, lastest all OS v29.0.1, epct ended up providing proper output. Seems an oversight that the bootutil will actively punt w/an error about not having the special driver installed but epct not even...

As an update for posterity or something, efi attempts were also unsuccessful for the same reasons/issues as w/the other update methods.

I tried it out and I'm having no current joy. After the install.bat it claimed the driver was already loaded (I've subsequently tried the forcing option w/no delta). The intelfw.bat u took like a second and returned no xml output as your example shows. I did try the i option for...

One thing I have discovered wrt the woes I was having with the card not ever getting an IP/moving packets. Normally/nominally there are green status LEDs that illuminate when all is well around the cage(s) with active tranceivers. Turns out that on one machine (R9 5950X) things are occurring...

I'll certainly give that a shot. Thanks. I have stumbled upon one of the reasons why I wasn't having any joy wrt to moving packets/getting an ip. So I need to investigate that a bit and see if that can be resolved.

Very nice. Interesting! I was looking for MCX623106AN-CDAT. I could have sworn I saw an adapter on fs.com in a sanity check before posting that. Given that I can't reproduce that, must be an eyesight issue on my part. Apologies. I guess I'll have to look into getting a couple.

Thanks for the clarification! Also wrt ConnectX-6 how's the heat? I've tended to stay away from the Mellanox boards due to posts indicating they run blazing hot even w/decent airflow. Has this improved or does it continue to be an issue? The larger issue, for me, would be module...

For the -CQDA2 variant is that total bandwidth dynamic in all modes or cap'd at each port regardless of the presence/link state of the other cage's module? For instance if the config is set for 2x1x100 and there's only 1 100G module (other cage is empty) is the maximum throughput going to be...

Thanks for looking/responding in any case. I tried the windows route. On the plus side epct doesn't vend the corrupted port settings output and I can actually get expected/reasonable output and change the port configuration. I am still unable flash the fw. Doesn't say it can't find the card...

Sadly still not joy. :( ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Downloads/E810_v4_40/Linux_x64$ cat nvmupdate.cfg CURRENT FAMILY: 1.0.0 CONFIG VERSION: 1.20.0 ; NIC device BEGIN DEVICE DEVICENAME: E810_CQDA2_O_SEC_FW VENDOR: 8086 DEVICE: 1592 SUBVENDOR: 8086 SUBDEVICE: 000B NVM IMAGE...

I hadn't seen anything about EPCT requiring their driver. Not that that's not true, I just hadn't seen anything to indicate such. I know their bootutility requires a special qvlinux driver and will actively complain if it's not present. Presumably there would be similar notification(s) if...

They were sold as genuine Intel, not DELL rebrands, but the SUBDEVICE, 000B, aligns w/nothing in the Intel supplied fw bundle but aligns perfectly w/the Dell fw. Based on the X710 process I kinda pieced together the workings of the file. Between the Intel nvmupdate.cfg and the one from the...

I've discovered a few things. The first thing is these turned out to be DELL cards which is why the intel bundled fw doesn't work. I can't seem to find any crossflashing instructions for the e810 series (the x710 appears promising though). However even going w/the DELL's fw I get the groin...

I can't tell if my cards are busted in some way or if they are just WAI and endemically just suck. The cards are detected and, w/some Mellanox 10G modules, link up and txfer packets. If I use 100G Arista modules, I get dmesg driver issues about unsupported modules. [ 8077.500316] ice...

Thanks. Is there anything 'McSpecial/secret' wrt to getting this board to do anything beyond a green blinking BMC led? I have QVL cpus and RAM in the board, shorting pin 11 (power switch) to pin 13 (GND) on the FP1 header does nothing. The cpu fans don't spin, absolutely zero evidence of...

Ebay appears to have a good supply of rev 1 and some rev 3 boards. The price delta between them is vast. Is there any material reasoning/difference that I should pay the uplift (~50-100%) for a rev 3 board or rev 1 will be perfectly fine? Especially any issues with memory; initial population...