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  1. Robert Townley

    ConnectX-3 vs ConnectX-3 Pro?

    NVIDIA moved it. "Mellanox Adapters - Comparison Table" ESPCommunity
  2. Robert Townley

    Flashing stock Mellanox firmware to OEM (EMC) ConnectX-3 IB/Ethernet dual-port QSFP adapter

    Wonder if the fiber optic cable is not long enough because that Arista QSFP-LR4-40G is meant for Long Range multi kilometer distances.
  3. Robert Townley

    Flashing stock Mellanox firmware to OEM (EMC) ConnectX-3 IB/Ethernet dual-port QSFP adapter

    Wonder if you have access to the HPE firmware updates? HPE might flash the IBM card so it is branded HPE. Dell did this to three HPE Mellanox cards.
  4. Robert Townley

    Flashing stock Mellanox firmware to OEM (EMC) ConnectX-3 IB/Ethernet dual-port QSFP adapter

    I am a noob, but looks to me that the QSFP+ is a LongRange SingleModeFiber transmiter that requires as much 3.5Watts, but 2.5Watts is the max power consumption because the High Power Class (> 3.5W) is not enabled? Post the same output for the working cards, please? Extended identifier...
  5. Robert Townley

    Flashing stock Mellanox firmware to OEM (EMC) ConnectX-3 IB/Ethernet dual-port QSFP adapter

    @gethro2k did you try flashing it with firmware from HPE? When i put a HP branded Mellanox into a Dell, the Dell Firmware update flashed it with the latest "Dell" firmware and worked fine. So yes, a HPE branded card running Dell Firmware. Not sure if it was the lifecycle controller firmware...
  6. Robert Townley

    ConnectX-2 MHRH2A-XSR 2.10 firm changes DEV_ID from 26418 to 26428

    The "FW Version" versus "FW Version(Running)" lines tells me a graceful shutdown and cold restart may have helped. flint -d mt26418_pci_cr0 query
  7. Robert Townley

    Flashing stock Mellanox firmware to OEM (EMC) ConnectX-3 IB/Ethernet dual-port QSFP adapter

    Can you still get to the Linux cli of vmware? lsmod | egrep -i '(MLX4)' modinfo mlx4_core | egrep port_type_array parm: port_type_array:Array of port types: HW_DEFAULT (0) is default 1 for IB, 2 for Ethernet (array of int) cat /sys/module/mlx4_core/parameters/port_type_array 2,2...
  8. Robert Townley

    Mellanox NICs

    Good to hear :) I imagine your firmware was all updated first? Do you have many different brands of optical modules? Arista? Intel?
  9. Robert Townley

    Mellanox NICs

    Just spent way too many hours trying to find Mellanox optical modules both SFP+ and QSFP+ because eBay basically said there were none. I would very much appreciate what modules are known to work with Mellanox. Does Mellanox block other brands in firmware? Do most other brands work?
  10. Robert Townley

    qsfp+ switch seems too good to be true

    Does your switch support and is it configured for RDMA?
  11. Robert Townley

    Arista DCS-7050QX-32

    Fodeesha, even if one found a compatible SFP+ module, the Arista would definitely not work with it at 2.5Gps or 5Gps? Hoping an Aquantia ( purchased by Marvell in 2019) based SFP+ would work some magic .... hoping! It is now a "Marvell AQS-107/CX" Sad, because MultiGigaBit can be traced...
  12. Robert Townley

    Arista DCS-7050QX-32

    That is opposite of my experience, but that is about 4 years ago.
  13. Robert Townley

    Arista DCS-7050QX-32

    Have not tried the firmware hacks. About four years back, FS.com specifically said Mellanox DACs would not work inside the Arista. They custom made DAC cables with Arista on one end and Mellannox on the other. When I get the ends mixed up, it does not work. When plugged-in correctly, they...
  14. Robert Townley

    Arista bought Untangle

    Arista makes some great stuff, but fear my gateway hardware jumps from $100 in price to $27,000?
  15. Robert Townley

    2.5" 960GB PM963 Firmware

    Have you tried both the 32bit and 64bit versions? Match what your operating system is running. Samsung_Magician_DC_Windows_32bit.exe
  16. Robert Townley

    EU [SOLD] 2X Mellanox ConnectX-5 CX515A-CCAT 100GbE Adapter + Cable

    From the NVIDIA website, "ConnectX-5 adapter cards are available for PCIe Gen 3.0 and Gen 4.0 servers", so is this a PCIe Gen 3 or PCIe Gen 4? Do you have the low profile bracket that came with it somewhere? Notes: All tall-bracket adapters are shipped with the tall bracket mounted and a...
  17. Robert Townley

    Anyone still using Dell C6100?

    "enabling unsafe handling" could be disclaimer about taking the risk of executing on CPUs with no patches against MeltDown and Spectre? No, bad guess, What is meant by interrupt remapping in Linux? mentions a blog that says the 5520 chipset does not do interrupt remapping well and to turn...
  18. Robert Townley

    How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size

    Did you follow the post about drastically increasing the timeout and references this modified https://github.com/ahouston/setblocksize/wiki ? He found that reformatting a 3TB drive required 780 minutes ( 13 hours ) but the default timeout was something like 200 minutes.
  19. Robert Townley

    WTB: cheap QSFP+ to mini SAS cable

    Does any switch that supports QSFP support SAS switching in addition to ethernet? Any specific examples? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  20. Robert Townley

    WTB: cheap QSFP+ to mini SAS cable

    Surely, i cant just plug this cable into our mini-SAS JBOD box and plug the other end into our QSFP+ port on the ethernet switch. So what is the use case for this adapter? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk