mSATA has no unusual size limitations that I am aware of. The BIOS should be
reasonable about it as well. you shouldn’t hit oddities at any size under 2TB.
I can’t speak personally about mSATA compatibility on the 6501 as I’ve only
used my Soekris purchased mSATA drives on those. Although I
https://soekris.com/media/manuals/net6501_manual.pdf
Lifetime of the battery is ~1 month, rechargeable Lithium according to manual.
CMOS is flash based, so dropping voltage from the battery shouldn’t clear
anything, just wipe out your clock.
I don’t know why everyone jumps on the dead board
Sound absorbing mats like dynamat do work. Expensive, of course. Surround any
direct path for sound from the MoBo to the outside world with that and you
won’t hear it. Just allow some angled hallway of airflow to keep the box cool.
It doesn’t have to be close. A big box with indirect
Soekris boards use at least one DC to DC transformer. These are notorious for
creating whine, even when they are spec’d in such a way that audible whine
would seem impossible. they also react differently under load. The only one I
can find listed is for the pci slot, so you may want to try
If you have a smart switch available, as you imply, you could vlan off a
segment to be your upstream interconnect; connect it in between your cable
modem and net6501, and watch for traffic that way. At the very least, having
an upstream switch could let you check error counts on ethernet
120/5 mbps connection is VERY asymmetric, and implies cable. Cable companies
often prioritize traffic in unusual ways. Even if they don’t, the acks going
upstream for payload coming down could saturate your upstream without uploading
any content at all. I would put limiters on your traffic
My hardware troubleshooting would start with:
1: swap power supply, see if that changes anything
2: swap positions of SSDs, see if problem follows card or slot (or goes away)
Occupied sockets rarely get dirty or lose contact, it’s the empty ones next to
a fan that tend to fill up with dust.
Not all hard drives behave the same. You appear to be using a Transcend 32GB
MSata drive, which may generally be fine and I like transcend SSD devices
elsewhere. I don’t know how many others can speak to this hardware
combination. If reliability is your primary concern, is it worth getting
I can’t tell what exactly has gone wrong on your system. Perhaps the disk is
corrupted, or the mount point is just wrong for your system.
What I can tell you is that I can boot just fine and run reliably on the
net6501 using pfSense-2.1.5-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz
I used dd to copy that
http://soekris.com/Issue0006/
The kingston CF cards have specifically made it into previous threads as being
troublesome on the 4801 and 5501. I personally am all for moving to SATA SSD
on the 5501 if you care about it actually working. SATA is a much better hard
drive interface than CF, and
The long list of repeated characters matches reality well enough that I would
suspect a baud mismatch. Try 9600 or 38400 and see what you get.
Can you verify your USB + null modem against any known-good equipment? I use
the keyspan USA-19HS. The serial adapters are finicky, and you certainly
I’m afraid I can offer no words of hope or joy. It sounds dead.
ED.
On 2015, May 5, at 7:32 PM, andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org wrote:
I have a Soekris Net 5501-70. I bought it second-hand and it's worked fine
for about six months.
A few days ago it stopped responding and upon
Ditto. 2.2.0 on msata was catastrophic. 2.2.1 full install on a regular SATA
drive still fails for me on 6501-50. Sticking with 2.1.5 for the foreseeable
future.
On 2015, Mar 24, at 7:01 AM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote:
On 24/03/2015 09:41, Martin Johnson wrote:
Are you using
I am also using the rackmount case on a pair of net6501’s with the soerkis
transcend 4GB drive. I don’t do upgrades/reboots unless I can be around to
manually reboot the machines because I have seen this intermittent behavior.
It’s not typical, but it has happened more than once.
I believe
^P is only useful at one particular stage of boot in the BIOS. net6501 also
accepts +++ followed by 1 second of nothing to display the uManager (micro
manager) interface. I’d use that as your test, so you don’t need to keep
re-setting the unit to get interaction. Just try a new terminal
I’m certain the answer is “it depends.” Do you have ANY idea where the
bottleneck is? The hardware is capable of much more than that. What does
systat or top say? Maxed out CPU? Heavy interrupt rate? How many packets per
second? Can you turn off flow-control at your switch?
The ethernet
A fair number of old, cheap 1g ethernet cards will work in the net5501. Take
note of the necessary second notch in the PCI pin section on the card. I can
absolutely verify that the netgear GA311 rev.a1 works. :-)
http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-GA311-Gigabit-Ethernet-Adapter/dp/B0001NYJ58
, ED Fochler soek...@liquidbinary.com wrote:
I apologize for being unclear. I agree that your TJ-Max is 90. I think
your sysctl measurement sounds high, as if sysctl is assuming a tjmax off
100 when calculating the offset.
http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2012-January/018121
Nikola, I think your tjmax assumption may be off by 10, skewing your sysctl
results.
My 6501 box(es) run at 65-68C typically, rackmounted with 1U above and below
each, in a 25C room, running PFSense. That being said, yeah, they run a little
hotter than I’d like. I’m probably going to buy
I apologize for being unclear. I agree that your TJ-Max is 90. I think your
sysctl measurement sounds high, as if sysctl is assuming a tjmax off 100 when
calculating the offset.
http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2012-January/018121.html
Or perhaps you are smarter than me, and I
I've had no luck with VM, but I didn't try very hard. I'd recommend against it.
Hard drive power and heat is a serious concern, with 2 of them and no air
movement, you will likely burn up the drives. Even with a fan, I'd recommend
5400 rpm or equivalent green drives. Hard drive power
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