It’s time for an replace on the OSNews Patreon, and the tasks I’m engaged on as a part of it.
Virtually three weeks in the past I wrote in regards to the Sunfire V245 delivered to my door, able to be become a wholly impractical and loud UltraSPARC workstation. Final we left off, I had simply obtained the unit, and was ready on a number of extra elements to get going – most significantly, a USB serial cable – which had been delivered shortly. Why, then, hasn’t there been one other article or replace, exhibiting the large server working?
It turned out the machine wouldn’t boot correctly. Along with John, the one that donated the machine to me, I’ve been attempting to diagnose the issue, and after two weeks of troubleshooting, we appear to have remoted the possible explanation for the issues. We expect two substitute elements will deal with the issue, and John will likely be sending these over as quickly as attainable.
I’ve stored all of the logs and data I famous down through the ongoing troubleshooting course of, and relaxation assured, I’ll write a abstract about our steps and processes, to provide you a glimpse into diagnosing a hardy and annoying drawback that appears to be a transferring goal, but might be attributable to a really a lot mounted a part of the machine.
Keep tuned!
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Shifting on, I’ve two different Patreon tasks deliberate. First, I by chance ordered the flawed graphics playing cards for the SunFire V245 – they turned out to be incompatible, as a substitute being designed for Solar’s AMD Opteron-based Extremely workstations. Since I’m now caught with two equivalent Solar-branded NVIDIA Quadro workstation GPUs, I figured I would as effectively try to discover a Solar Extremely 40 and see simply how helpful that beast of a workstation is in 2021.
Sadly, as with many items of extra unique {hardware}, they’re onerous to search out in Europe, and reasonably priced machines from america include very hefty transport prices. I’m hoping for some luck on the outdated world continent right here.
Second, I intend to construct a machine utilizing nothing however elements from AliExpress. As most of you might be in all probability conscious, there’s a energetic market of recent Chinese language-branded single and dual-socket Intel X79 and X99 motherboards on AliExpress. Numerous different individuals on the internet and YouTube have constructed machines round these motherboards, sporting used Xeon processors and RAM.
This has develop into a reasonably widespread and largely dependable and reliable market on AliExpress, and I wish to discover if it’s price it to construct such a machine for individuals like us right here on OSNews. It’s enjoyable, unique, low cost, and probably silly, so why wouldn’t you wish to see me attempt?
Please be aware that these plans are all topic to vary, after all, and since they contain buying tools from locations like eBay and AliExpress, I can’t give any timelines or make any guarantees.
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