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For those interested, I just purchased a N54L.
I'm able to see 16GB of ram with the following chips.
Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model CT2KIT102464BA1339
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148466
Nice to see another MicroServer owner!
In case you hadn't seen all the discussion on forums.overclockers.com.au , there are some sets of RAM that work in the MicroServer until you either reboot or power off and re-power (I can't remember which).
I suggest you do a few (5-10) cycles of soft rebooting and hard power cycling and each time check that the BIOS sees all 16GB. As you're only booting in to the BIOS, it shouldn't take long.
There are reports that Patriot RAM works, and I think one or two other types, but most 8GB DIMMs do not work -- the HP Microserver doesn't officially support 16GB.
Cheers,
Neil.
Good info..
I Have been pretty successful with 2x Samsung 8GiB ECC Unbufferd UDIMMs... but i have not powered it on and off more then a dozen times since I installed it.
1366x768. It's made for VGA, HDMI and MHL, Battery or USB Power. Audio input too.
Ok, about the same as 14-15" laptop. thanks for the info. that should work... I'll probably get one when I get back stateside.
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Nice setup.
A little off topic. what is the max resolution on that portable monitor?
I have been looking for something like that for a while.
I have a rack mounted mac mini server that gets used offsite quite often. most of time it needs no monitor. but every now and then we need to put a monitor on it. We found out that none of the normal portable USB monitors work as the primary/only display on OSx. the HDMI of this one should work for us.
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Thats one way to unmake the MicroServer...
that reminds me of my 24 drive Norco powered by an X7SPA ITX Atom.
There is a 16 port LSI HBA if you want to pass on the expander.
Personally, I prefer the micro server as a micro server, but is it neat to see one evolve into something else.
I like that you didn't actually destroy anything (unlike most modding). that way you can always rebuild the MicroServer when you chose to upgrade the board in the new build.
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Nice tip.
I put a strip or two of blue painters tape over the head of my flashlight so it was much dimmer.
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I just bought an M1015 at ebay (prices are highly variable...)
Can I flash a M1015 directly to P13 by replacing the IT firmware "2118it.bin" in batch file to the new version from LSI website?
anything else needs to be changed? "mptsas2.rom"?
Has anyone tried the new P14 version?
Are the changes needed to flash P14 same as P13?
No, as i recall you needed to change 3-4 files. otherwise you end up with a mismatched flash.
what I did was used the "LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11)" file on page one, then i downloaded the "upgrade-M1015-P12" file found later in the thread and i replaced the files in "upgrade-M1015-P12" with the P14 files. and it went just fine.
there is some talk that the P14 files might be needed for unraid for the LSI bug fixes. I do not think this is confirmed yet. I see no reason not to go to P14 now.
I believe i had to replace the dos version of sas2flash.exe and everything in the "sasbios_rel" folder also..
otherwise you get an error later that the SAS card version is incorrect or not found. I had that error back when i flashed to P13.
I was able to recover
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RC5 has some known issues with the MVSAS driver. There is an RC6test to address this.
Also, you did not state how much RAM you have, but running several preclears at once can run you out of ram causing the preclear it to fail.
I will assume the way your card works is 2 SAS channels split into four. so the first 2 ports share 300MB/s and the second set of 2 share 300MB/s. more then plenty of bandwidth for 8 mechanical drives. even high end SAS drives. the bottleneck Would be the PCIe 4x slot. For unaid, I would not worry about it at all.
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It is still usable hardware in my opinion.
I would post your question there.
some of the mods on that site are very knowledgeable on the hardware and its limits and installing other stuff on them.
i believe that some of the people on that forum used to work for the MSS division of HP.
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I have an old HP mediasmart server that used to run Windows Home Server. It seems to meet the requirements of unRAID but I don't know if it can be configured to boot from a USB drive. So, I'm wondering if anyone in this community has tried (and hopefully succeeded) installing unRAID on this hardware.
Thanks in advance.
Thats a very good question and i have wondered about that myself.
I know a few people with the older MSS units that are unused.
I believe they MSS boots from usb if it is in the top rear USB port.
the motherboards are proprietary, but they have Intel 775 chips in many of them (some are upgradeable). some can support 2GB (or more?) of ram.
A good place to ask would be over at www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/
You could try booting the free version of unraid if you can get it to boot usb.
the hardest part is that they are headless and you cant see any errors without a breakout cable..
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it looks like it works. I didnt actually execute the command. But i got everything in place to test it on my new LSI card when I get it. and get time...
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thank you.
I am so not used to these seagates. too bad they are such crap drives. they have nice specs..
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My latest pre-clear...
Hmmm.
Disk: /dev/sdpsmartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright © 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166
Serial Number: WxxxxxX
Firmware Version: CC4C
User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is: Tue May 15 00:20:04 2012 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 575) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3085) SCT Status supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 105440000
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 098 098 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 2
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 067 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 5806444
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 30
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 2
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 065 063 045 Old_age Always - 35 (Min/Max 26/37)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 035 040 000 Old_age Always - 35 (0 26 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 155671089643550
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 9657625742636
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 36526120157
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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well if you broke one off, i would assume warranty is gone too, so why not make it better for yourself at that point, right?
screw it, duct tape that sucker like Red/Green would!
I thought the same thing.. the second i saw the broken legs... "ok break the rest and drill them out. put a fan screw in from the back".
it might even make it better by removing the vibration of the fan rattling around on that plastic post.
Pretty craptastic design now, that's for sure.
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If you bought it from newegg, your receipt is stored forever in your purchase history. you can just download it from them.
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Thanks pro stuff.
Is there anything special about down grading from r14 to r12?
Im running 3 m1015's flashed with p13 (p14 was released after I flashed them).
I am running on 5.0Beta12.
I can confirm from experiance that betas 13 & 14 do not work with LSI cards.
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I am toying with the idea of getting an N40L and running Unraid on it.
My question is - would it be possible to use the eSata port and connect an external eSata hard drive enclosure to extend the Unraid array?
The ideal would be something like a 4 bay external like this: http://www.startech.com/HDD/Enclosures/4-Bay-External-Hard-Drive-Array-Storage-Tower%E2%80%93eSATA-USB-Enclosure~SAT3540U2E.
This would allow somebody to expand from 5/6 drives to 8/9 drives.
Thoughts?
The Esata port on the Microserver does not support port multiplying.
you would have to get an esata card that supports port multipliers to use an external multi-drive esata bay that uses port multiplication.
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OK guys, I give up I have bought two of these
Tried in dos
Windows 7
ESXI
Not sure what else there is left to try. It seems like every tie I make head way I get hit with the dreaded PAL error. I have officially run out of boards to attempt it on. I am unable to flash them with any of the 5 mother boards I have. I am starting to pull whats left of my hair out. At this point I am willing to pay to have some one do them for me. Any takers?
what boards have you tried it on?
also where are you located? if your in Chicago, I'll do it for free.
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I'll add the Nexus Prominent 9 to this list.
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Nice I like it.. very clean.
Nice prices...
I just put a 22 Drive Pro (IPMI) in my cart!
I did however cancel the order... this time.
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I assume you tried upgrading the bios?
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it could be an under/over volting warning too..
could be power supply load has changed or dirty power?
some SM boards have a voltage error header and fan error headers. hook an led to them (hard drive, nic or power lights?) to it and see if one lights when it alerts.
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Here is my thought on it...
Personally. I would go with the "6" drive flavor..
I would get 5x 3.5" drives and 1x 2.5". especially with drives costing what they do right now...
fill it with 2TB or 3TB and go with that......
then spend the cost of all of the "extra stuff" you need to make it into a 7 drive box and just buy another box (with that killer UK deal) and put that in storage for when you fill this box..
then at a later date, when drives are cheaper, larger or you run out of space.... upgrade this one, moving drives to the other microserver.... or just build the other one fresh.
I have a 4 (and a half) drive micro server that i got back when drives were 1 TB in size. I then upgraded it to 1.5TB drives, then 2TB and now it has 3TB drives.. just as the drives start getting full, the next size up goes on sale as drives get bigger and cheaper. (I somehow don't see 4TB drives getting cheap soon though).
as far as the old drives. they are all in my "back up server" so they are not a wasted investment...
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I have to do a major server breakdown this Thursday or Friday. when I do, I'll have a spare X9SCM and M1015 to test. there has to be a way to flash with this combo.
It sounds like it is the "erase step" that fails. it might be some sort of PCIe setting / slot selection combo.
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No need to be quite so rude... (or does that mean something more polite in the US than in the UK?)
SOrry.
I am the yank mod on a large UK server and forums where the atmosphere is a bit lighter. No offense was meant I apologize if it offended you.
Now if i can get the British guy in my HR dept to stop calling everyone a C**t...
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it sounds like there is a potential opportunity for some sort of international coalition for creating fully populated prebuilt microservers.
Tower cases with 5.25" drive bays top to bottom...
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No, but the price is quite reasonable http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235039&Tpk=zalman%20MS800