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  1. mattaw

    Has anyone tried crossflashing Mellanox Connectx5 CX556A-ECAT PCIe 3 to CX556A-EDAT PCIe 4?

    Good afternoon, I have got two damaged Connectx-5 ECAT's which I have repaired and seem to work. However I only have a x8 lane PCIe 4.0 socket on my X570 motherboard. To run them fast I would need PCIe 4.0 support. Has anyone tried cross-flashing them to see if that just works TM? Or are there...
  2. mattaw

    Value of 0603 SMT Fuse on AOC-2308 (LSI 9207) card

    So, purchased 6x of the AOC Supermicro cards with SAS2308 SoC's from LSI from ebay $25each: SuperMicro AOC-S2308L-L8i 8 Ports SAS-600 PCIe 6Gb/s Server Controller Card | eBay When flashing them to the latest BIOS 20.00.07, I got tired and tried to hotswap one. Got the flash and pop - card...
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    Need help choosing scrap-price Xeons for Supermicro X9DRi

    Good morning all, Just recently upgraded from Dual Opteron 6380's to a Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ rev 1.10 [thanks j_h_o] with DDR3 and two sockets for $100. I run a few containers, but mostly ZFS filer in the Supermicro 846 case with 40GBE ethernet serving iSCSI. DDR3 I spent $20 on getting...
  4. mattaw

    FS: Silicom 4x 10GBe SFP+ PE310G4i71LB-XR, Intel X710 ultra low profile Ethernet (Ebay)

    $300 shipped. A rather unusual ultra-low profile 4x 10GBe Silicom X710 based PCIe Ethernet card. PE310G4i71LB-XR. I am also including the high profile bracket. Worked fine with Myricom 10G-SFP-SR optics. Can use Intel's standard drivers or Silicom's available with a signup. Supports most...
  5. mattaw

    Request for ethtool dump - tracking the missing 40000baseLR4!

    From it's specifications it looks like the dual qsfp connectx-3 has 3W qsfp support including LR4. From the firmware release notes 40gb support: QSFP-40G-SR-BD MC2210511-LR4 Some internet posts of ethtool run on this show supported link types of 40000baseLR4/Full. 56 GbE over a ConnectX-3 VPI...
  6. mattaw

    Help with Connectx-3 back-to-back using FS QSFP-BD-40G

    Hey all, I used the instructions to cross flash two HP Connextx-3 cards QSFP to Mellanox MCX354A-FCBT's. I then installed two Fiberstore (FS) QSFP-BD-40G modules into one card configured as dual Ethernet. No dice, the link won't come up and the lights on the card stay off. Things I have...