On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Chris Wilson
wrote:
> I'm testing my first net6501 with an OCZ Petrol SSD. Everything seemed OK, got
> the OS installed, then I started getting checksum mismatches from rsync, then
> I/O errors, and then the drive stopped working completely.
I've used and deploy
> I've found it useful to connect a Wiznet serial-to-LAN gateway to in-school
> servers, to allow remote access to the serial console even if the machine is
> misbehaving. However this is pretty ugly to look at, and fragile. It would be
> great if something like this was embedded on the motherb
On 2012-05-30, Chris Wilson wrote:
> I have a feeling that the serial console, the only way to configure a
> Soekris,
> is very 1970s. Admittedly it is quite reliable, but slow, fiddly, most modern
> computers don't even have a serial port any more, and I've found
> USB-to-serial
> converters
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 03:13:41PM +0200, Soren Kristensen wrote:
> over USB. But I'm not sure about dropping the serial management port
I'll be sure for you: don't drop it. The beauty and genius of these
machines is in their simplicity and robustness: their efficiency. They
are the foundati
Chris Wilson wrote:
>Hi Soren,
>
>On Wed, 30 May 2012, Kyle Brantley wrote:
>
Also, comBIOS appears to have a bug which causes the
output of many boot loaders (including PXELINUX and GRUB) to be
>corrupted and
unreadable.
>>>
>>> Many boot loaders try to output to both BIOS and ser
On Wed, 30 May 2012 11:49:29 +0100 (BST), Chris Wilson
wrote:
> Thanks for that data point. What exact kernel are you running?
Chris,
I am using the the (almost) stock Debian Wheezy kernel which is Linux 3.2
I say 'almost', because I have to recompile to get pch_uart tty driver out
of the way
Hi Soren,
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Kyle Brantley wrote:
>>> Also, comBIOS appears to have a bug which causes the
>>> output of many boot loaders (including PXELINUX and GRUB) to be corrupted
>>> and
>>> unreadable.
>>
>> Many boot loaders try to output to both BIOS and serial port at the same
>> tim
Hi Kyle,
Kyle Brantley wrote:
> On 5/30/2012 7:13 AM, Soren Kristensen wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Things are not that simple as:
>>
>> Chris Wilson wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a feeling that the serial console, the only way to configure a
>>> Soekris,
>>> is very 1970s. Admittedly it is quite
On 5/30/2012 7:13 AM, Soren Kristensen wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Things are not that simple as:
>
> Chris Wilson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a feeling that the serial console, the only way to configure a
>> Soekris,
>> is very 1970s. Admittedly it is quite reliable, but slow, fiddly, most modern
>
Hi Chris,
Things are not that simple as:
Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a feeling that the serial console, the only way to configure a Soekris,
> is very 1970s. Admittedly it is quite reliable, but slow, fiddly, most modern
> computers don't even have a serial port any more, and I've fo
Hi all,
I have a feeling that the serial console, the only way to configure a Soekris,
is very 1970s. Admittedly it is quite reliable, but slow, fiddly, most modern
computers don't even have a serial port any more, and I've found USB-to-serial
converters quite unreliable, with dropped character
Hi Philippe,
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Philippe Vanhaesendonck wrote:
> This probably does not help too much, but FYI I am running Debian Wheezy
> on my net6501 with an OCZ Vertex-3 SSD, and no problem encountered so
> far...
Thanks for that data point. What exact kernel are you running?
Cheers, C
Hi Bob,
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Bob Bishop wrote:
> On 29 May 2012, at 17:41, Chris Wilson wrote:
>
>> [...]So I suspect there's nothing wrong with the drive; it may be a firmware
>> bug,
>> but I was unable to apply firmware fixes using OCZ's updater for Linux. [etc]
>
> You are running the latest
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