On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 1:25 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> > The HP BIOS is the screwiest one I've ever come across. Can confirm via my HP ProBook. Dell's BIOSes are a lot better. My first Z400 cost $1100, but several years ago I got 3x Z400's for a total > of $300 delivered. They are all the older 4 DIMM machines w/ 2.67 GHz quad > core W3520 processors, but you sure can't beat the price. Lately I've been > eyeing a Z820. I can get one with 24 3 GHz cores, 512 GB of RAM and 20-30 > TB of RAIDZ3 for less than I paid for my Ultra 20 in 2006. The hardest part > is finding a justification with the current state of the oil industry. So > I'll need a new use case. > > I'm happy to report that by running FreeBSD sade(8) and putting a GPT > label on the disk I can access the disk on OI 2020.10 again and all the > vendor information has been restored. prtvtoc again provides the same > output as before I nuked the label. Once I've studied the ZFS > implementations in Linux, BSD, OS X, Solaris and Illumos/OI I plan to write > a more sensible way to clean cruft off of disks than a blind "dd > if=/dev/zero...". Whenever I do disk upgrades I put the old disks in > caddies so I can test stuff such as I've been doing. Or try out the latest > version of Plan 9 ;-) > > So I think it worth studying how they are getting the disk info and doing > some work on format(1m) after all. I don't think the proliferation of > redundant tools is useful. I'm much more inclined to fix old stuff than > write new stuff. Though "fix" may well require writing a lot of new code. > It's the person who has to use it that matters. My chief objection to > Gnu/Linux is the perpetually changing syntax and semantics of things one > rarely does. That is very dangerous if you have some ancient utility that > attends to a complex but infrequent task which you got working long ago, > but never quite got around to documenting properly. > > Have Fun! > Reg > On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 12:46:11 PM CST, John D Groenveld < > groenv...@acm.org> wrote: > > In message <0679fa41-d544-7007-44fd-b00b3a5c9...@kit.edu>, "Udo > Grabowski (IMK) > " writes: > >since that mode is just slow. Get yourself into AHCI mode first, > >along the guidelines Gary just posted (and that should've worked > >out of the box, these HPE guys manage to break everything...). > > Does HP's BIOS prohibit booting from LSI HBAs? > ISTR some HPQ evil in that regard. > In my little corner of the world, Dell Precision workstations > are available at salvage prices for home lab use, but in other > corners I have seen well-speced HP Z workstations on thrift shop > shelves. > > John > groenv...@acm.org > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss