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I really can't say if any other cables will work or not. I believe others here have successfully used non-Mellanox cables, but can't say for sure which ones. A lot of people seem to be having good luck with cables from fs.com. Hopefully someone else can chime in with the cables they've had the...

I'm not sure what you consider cheap, but I've been getting new Mellanox FDR DACs (1.5m and 2m) for around $35 on ebay, I'm sure FDR-10 cables would be less. Are you running a subnet manager on an infiniband connected machine? The SX6005 is unmanaged, it's just a dumb collection of copper until...

I just finished setting up my FreeNAS, actually, and I was pretty disappointed to see there was no IB support. It does handle 56GbE pretty well (everything connected, anyway, haven't had a chance to test throughput yet), though. aa

The unmanaged switches (SX6xx5) are not capable of ethernet. Ethernet mode requires a license on the managed switches (though no license is actually required on our flashed switches). To your first question, yes, flashing the unmanaged switches would be considerably easier. edit: another...

The SX6005 cannot be converted to a managed switch, as it does not have the hardware necessary. You should be able to flash it to a normal SX6005 firmware, though, using the publicly available firmware (http://www.mellanox.com/page/firmware_table_SwitchX) and flint...

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle...that worked. Thanks a ton for the quick reply!

Hey all, I'm having some troubles flashing my switch. I've gotten everything up through step 6 of the guide, but when I try to boot into the new OS I get an endless stream of errors: U-Boot 2009.01 SX_PPC_M460EX SX_3.2.0330-82-EMC ppc (Feb 27 2013 - 12:13:42) CPU: AMCC PowerPC 460EX Rev. B...