Hi Everybody, We're now going to start shipping the new net6501, we will be contacting everybody on the interest list first, when done with that it will become available to order directly on the website.
We have 120 pcs net6501-50 now, with the next 600 pcs net6501-50 to arrive in about 5 days, then the first full run of both -30, -50 and -70 to arrive in about 5 weeks. Please note: Boards are ready now, the standard case will be here in 4-7 days. The 1U 19" rackmount case is being worked on, should be here in 4-6 weeks. The hard drive mounting kit is not that perfect yet, will have a frame for mounting 1-2 drives, but only cables for one drive for now.... The uSD socket have been replaced with a low profile USB socket, to be used with a low profile (about 5mm) USB flash drive, those should be easily available, BUT the USB boot code is still to be completed, see below. We recommend to use mSATA SSD for booting, and have ordered a number of Transcend mSATA SSD's in 2G SLC, 4G SLC, 16G MLC and 32G MLC sizes, those should be here in about 2 weeks. The Intel 20G SLC and 40G MLC mSATA SSD's are also nice and easily available online. Any 2.5" SATA HD and SSD should work, but please be aware that some of the cheap SSD drives are crappy, t.ex. the Kingston SSDnow 100 (and probably other Jmicon JMF616 based ones) are really crap. But are fine if used Read Only. Software: The BIOS is not completely done yet, there are these limitation: The USB boot code need to be completed, it's complex and will probably take 4-5 weeks. Until then install is by PXE netboot or by moving drives around. The comBIOS flash updating code is not done yet, should take just a few days to do. But the uManager can update everything, including itself, over the serial port. The uManager don't have voltage moniter and fan control yet, will probably take 2-3 weeks. The Atom's HT mode is not initialized yet. And probably some minor issues to be discovered and quickly fixed.... FreeBSD 8.2 have been tested to be working good. OpenBSD 4.9 works, but have problems with APIC interrupts, for now it run in 8259 interrupt mode, expect to get it fixed soon. Havent't tested any Linux, will do in the next couple of days. Any software need to be new enough to support the Intel 82574 ethernet controllers. Will have net6501 Manual up on website in 3-4 days. Best Regards, Soren Kristensen CEO & Chief Engineer Soekris Engineering, Inc. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
