Wanted to echo the "mlx5 is terrible" sentiment. I have a ConnectX-4 in an external enclosure and in my testing it performs worse than my built-in 10 Gigabit port; the ConnectX-4 reads at 641.9 MB/s from a NVMe mirror in my main server where the built-in NIC does 820.1 MB/s. Speeds don't indicate that I'd benefit from a 25Gbe connection regardless, but still a disappointing result.
Stock Connectx-4 does not play well with external enclosure's 4-lane PCIe.
The flash has to unlocked before PSID change is allowed.
DEVICE=/dev/mst/mt4117_pciconf0
FWFILE=fw_TLNS3252_32.1010.bin
sudo /usr/bin/flint -d $DEVICE -override_cache_replacement hw set Flash0.WriteProtected=Disabled
sudo /usr/bin/flint -allow_psid_change -d $DEVICE -i $FWFILE burnThat heavily depends on a card actually. Most of them doesn't lock anything.
Don't forget that you need flint_oem for that to work, normal mstflint from the distro or normal flint from OFED/DOCA won't work.
Your Sonnet enclosure is one of the best Thunderbolt3 enclosures out there with a price to match (370-420)
First 2 units I had will not flash unless unlocked
Latest firmware updated happened in 2024 (some CVE fix, AFAIR). But mlx5 driver on Linux/FreeBSD and osx to extent supports everything from CX4 EN (slighly older than Lx) until ConnectX-8, so unless there will be a driver change I don't think that support would go away, but we'll have to live with the unfixed bugs and some smaller compatibility problems that Cx4 still have.
CX6 DX on used market can be spotted for less than 300$ rather casually (still not typical price, but if you observe the market for a month you'll likely see one or two listings). So far I've seen few occasions when even ConnectX-7 was sold for less than 600$.
Oh wow, wouldn't have known this issue. Did you buy it from a seller that listed TLN3-3102 as the model number? I guess you could ask for a return as the model wouldn't have matched.
This is a case where I bought it months ago and sat on it until today, so any return wouldn't be possible regardless. That being said, the title did not explicitly have the model number listed, and the listing has aged out so I can't double check the details to see if it did. Considering there's zero mention of TLNS-3102 anywhere on Atto's website, I wouldn't even have known to look for that discrepancy. Live and learn
Interesting. If you flip yours over, does the part number match this?This is a case where I bought it months ago and sat on it until today, so any return wouldn't be possible regardless. That being said, the title did not explicitly have the model number listed, and the listing has aged out so I can't double check the details to see if it did. Considering there's zero mention of TLNS-3102 anywhere on Atto's website, I wouldn't even have known to look for that discrepancy. Live and learn
