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Dacentec dedicated Opteron with 2x2TB and 4x750GB $25/mo in North Carolina

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  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    OK now this one is sorted..
    My box is now in production mode, won't reinstall it.

    Anyone here wants CentOS 7 installed in their box?
    Might give it a try and arrange a solution for all us.

  • MagicalTrainMagicalTrain Member

    @MikePT

    Sadly, I already tried that yesterday. They were gone at boot, but writing 5GB of data made them appear again. See if that is the case for you as well.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @MagicalTrain said:
    @MikePT

    Sadly, I already tried that yesterday. They were gone at boot, but writing 5GB of data made them appear again. See if that is the case for you as well.

    What was the test there? Can try to run it, would a 5GB DD file reproduce it?

  • MagicalTrainMagicalTrain Member

    Yeah, I simply did a 5GB dd of /dev/zero.

  • WSSWSS Member

    @MikePT said:
    Heh.

    Lots of IOMMU errors. There's no such setting in the BIOS.

    I don't know what's so different about our machines, but mine has IOMMU directly under System->NorthBridge. I set it to 64MB and it stopped bitching. Try amd_iommu=off?

    iommu=force,memaper=3

    I didn't have any luck with that, but we've got different builds for whatever reason.

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  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran
    edited August 2017

    @MagicalTrain said:
    Yeah, I simply did a 5GB dd of /dev/zero.

    I'm not able to reproduce that.
    I'm now trying with 10G, different commands.

    root@prod-node2:~# dd if=/dev/urandom of=test1 bs=1M count=5120

    5120+0 records in
    5120+0 records out
    5368709120 bytes (5.4 GB, 5.0 GiB) copied, 34.8977 s, 154 MB/s

    root@prod-node2:~# time sh -c 'dd if=/dev/zero iflag=count_bytes count=10G bs=1M of=large; sync'

    10240+0 records in
    10240+0 records out
    10737418240 bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) copied, 70.7774 s, 152 MB/s

    root@prod-node2:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=example10G bs=10G count=1

    0+1 records in
    0+1 records out
    2147479552 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 10.7044 s, 201 MB/s

    @WSS said:
    @MikePT said:
    Heh.

    Lots of IOMMU errors. There's no such setting in the BIOS.

    I don't know what's so different about our machines, but mine has IOMMU directly under System->NorthBridge. I set it to 64MB and it stopped bitching. Try amd_iommu=off?

    iommu=force,memaper=3

    I didn't have any luck with that, but we've got different builds for whatever reason.

    Could you please run lshw and tell me your motherboard model / bios version?

  • WSSWSS Member 
      *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: H8SMI
       vendor: Supermicro
       physical id: 0
       version: 2.01
       serial: ZM13S70837
       slot: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: 080014
          date: 01/10/2011
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification

    $ uname -srm && head -7 /proc/cpuinfo && free -h && cat /etc/debian_version 
Linux 4.11.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1385
stepping        : 2
microcode       : 0x10000c6
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7.9G        653M        7.0G        8.6M        221M        7.0G
Swap:           15G          0B         15G
9.1
  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran
    edited August 2017

    @WSS said:

      *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: H8SMI
       vendor: Supermicro
       physical id: 0
       version: 2.01
       serial: ZM13S70837
       slot: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: 080014
          date: 01/10/2011
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification

    $ uname -srm && head -7 /proc/cpuinfo && free -h && cat /etc/debian_version 
Linux 4.11.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1385
stepping        : 2
microcode       : 0x10000c6
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7.9G        653M        7.0G        8.6M        221M        7.0G
Swap:           15G          0B         15G
9.1

    Ah I see.

    > prod-node2
>     description: Desktop Computer
>     product: H8SMI (To Be Filled By O.E.M.)
>     vendor: Supermicro
>     version: 1234567890
>     serial: 1234567890
>     width: 64 bits
>     capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp vsyscall32
>     configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop family=To Be Filled By O.E.M. sku=To Be Filled By O.E.M. uuid=00020003-0004-0005-$
>   *-core
>        description: Motherboard
>        product: H8SMI
>        vendor: Supermicro
>        physical id: 0
>        version: 1234567890
>        serial: 1234567890
>        slot: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>      *-firmware
>           description: BIOS
>           vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
>           physical id: 0
>           version: 080014
>           date: 08/11/2009
>           size: 64KiB
>           capacity: 960KiB
>

    Same motherboard, different BIOS version.
    I've tried flashing it but couldn't boot it.

    https://www.supermicro.com/ResourceApps/BIOS_IPMI_AMD.html

    Search for Type: AMD Name: H8SMI

    It's there, but I am unable to get it to flash, won't detect it even.

    Edit: Better formatting now.

  • WSSWSS Member

    Edit: Sorry for the wrong formatting, I dont know how the hell you do that beautiful formatting.

    I'd put a ticket in and ask them to update your BIOS.

    Use ~ three times for head and end of a formatted block.

  • MagicalTrainMagicalTrain Member
    edited August 2017

    Lshw isnt even showing me anything about my motherboard.

     *-core
       description: Motherboard
       physical id: 0

    From dmidecode:

    BIOS Information
            Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
            Version: 080014 
            Release Date: 08/11/2009

Base Board Information
    Manufacturer: Supermicro
    Product Name: H8SMI
    Version: 1234567890
    Serial Number: 1234567890
    Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    Features:
        Board is a hosting board
        Board is replaceable
    Location In Chassis: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
    Chassis Handle: 0x0003
    Type: Motherboard
    Contained Object Handles: 0

    Guess I also have an older BIOS version.

    Ill send them a ticket later to ask them for an update.

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    To be fair this is bargaib basement stuff, so I'm not shocked at the lack of consistency across these servers.

    I'm going to err on the side of caution and stick with Debian 8, assuming that no more disks die and a get a satisfactory answer out of support, otherwise I'll probably just cancel.

  • painfreepcpainfreepc Member

    selling cheap shit systems with problems - WOW I almost rented one of shit buckets..

  • qpsqps Member, Host Rep

    Gamma17 said: ST3750640AS

    These model Seagate drives are known to be shit. They had major firmware problems, but even after the firmware update still weren't great. We pulled a ton of the 500GB version out of service a long time ago.

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    @painfreepc said:
    selling cheap shit systems with problems - WOW I almost rented one of shit buckets..

    You make it sound like it's deliberate.

  • MagicalTrainMagicalTrain Member

    @Nekki said:
    To be fair this is bargaib basement stuff, so I'm not shocked at the lack of consistency across these servers.

    I'm going to err on the side of caution and stick with Debian 8, assuming that no more disks die and a get a satisfactory answer out of support, otherwise I'll probably just cancel.

    If they update the bios, Im going to try one last time to update to Debian 9. I dont like having one single proxmox 4.4 instance in a sea of ve 5.0 instances.

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    Ah fuck. This is the first replacement drive.

    smartctl -a -T permissive /dev/sde
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               /4:0:0:0
Product:              
Compliance:           SPC-5
User Capacity:        600,332,565,813,390,450 bytes [600 PB]
Logical block size:   774843950 bytes
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=47 offset=50 bd_len=46
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=47 offset=50 bd_len=46
>> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Log Sense failed, IE page [scsi response fails sanity test]
Error Counter logging not supported
  • WSSWSS Member

    @MagicalTrain said:
    If they update the bios, Im going to try one last time to update to Debian 9. I dont like having one single proxmox 4.4 instance in a sea of ve 5.0 instances.

    You actually expect to run VMs on this pile of crap? Debian 9 is doable, and sure, this has svm, but REALLY?!

  • saibalsaibal Member

    @Nekki said: Ah fuck. This is the first replacement drive.

    User Capacity: 600,332,565,813,390,450 bytes [600 PB]

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    Well, not good here as well:

    https://i.gyazo.com/b9ac1dff81ae76c8a38a95c749b12423.png

    Not happy with the result. Too much time spent on this.

  • MikePTMikePT Moderator, Patron Provider, Veteran

    @saibal said:

    @Nekki said: Ah fuck. This is the first replacement drive.

    User Capacity: 600,332,565,813,390,450 bytes [600 PB]

    $7!

  • jetchiragjetchirag Member

    @imok said:
    I feel like I have to buy these... but usually I just use some GBs... strange.

    similar scenario

  • MagicalTrainMagicalTrain Member

    @WSS said:

    @MagicalTrain said:
    If they update the bios, Im going to try one last time to update to Debian 9. I dont like having one single proxmox 4.4 instance in a sea of ve 5.0 instances.

    You actually expect to run VMs on this pile of crap? Debian 9 is doable, and sure, this has svm, but REALLY?!

    As in 2 vms. Yes. I try to separate services. Planning nothing exactly demanding on it either.

  • WSSWSS Member

    @MagicalTrain said:

    @WSS said:

    @MagicalTrain said:
    If they update the bios, Im going to try one last time to update to Debian 9. I dont like having one single proxmox 4.4 instance in a sea of ve 5.0 instances.

    You actually expect to run VMs on this pile of crap? Debian 9 is doable, and sure, this has svm, but REALLY?!

    As in 2 vms. Yes. I try to separate services. Planning nothing exactly demanding on it either.

    That's fair enough. Did you get the /29 that came with it (with justification)? If you disable the IOMMU in the kernel, you'll lose SVM, and that means virtualizing is going to suck at best. Hope the newer BIOS fixes it up for ya.

  • MagicalTrainMagicalTrain Member

    @WSS said:

    @MagicalTrain said:

    @WSS said:

    @MagicalTrain said:
    If they update the bios, Im going to try one last time to update to Debian 9. I dont like having one single proxmox 4.4 instance in a sea of ve 5.0 instances.

    You actually expect to run VMs on this pile of crap? Debian 9 is doable, and sure, this has svm, but REALLY?!

    As in 2 vms. Yes. I try to separate services. Planning nothing exactly demanding on it either.

    That's fair enough. Did you get the /29 that came with it (with justification)? If you disable the IOMMU in the kernel, you'll lose SVM, and that means virtualizing is going to suck at best. Hope the newer BIOS fixes it up for ya.

    Yeah, I got the /29. If I cant get the IOMMU playing nicely, Im probably going to ask for a refund. Hope the update fixes the problems.

    They said that they dont generally do bios updates, but will look into if its possible on a test server first. So ill see if it works out or not.

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    Back to three disks.

    I think this is where I get off.

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  • painfreepcpainfreepc Member
    edited August 2017

    @Nekki said:

    @painfreepc said:
    selling cheap shit systems with problems - WOW I almost rented one of shit buckets..

    You make it sound like it's deliberate.

    Sorry i should not talk that way about a shit bucket,

    because a shit bucket can actually be used..

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    painfreepc said: Sorry i should not talk that way about a shit bucket,

    because a shit bucket can actually be used..

    Alright mate, you have a good one.

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  • hzrhzr Member

    Nekki said: Alright mate, you have a good one.

    Wasn't he desperately begging for one of those 32 bit java only shit buckets from 2000 in the DBD thread for multiple pages?

  • MagicalTrainMagicalTrain Member
    edited August 2017

    @hzr said:

    Nekki said: Alright mate, you have a good one.

    Wasn't he desperately begging for one of those 32 bit java only shit buckets from 2000 in the DBD thread for multiple pages?

    He was/is begging for whatever dedi is under 25$. Doesnt matter if its a pentium 3 rust-bucket. Dedi? Cheap? @painfullpc is begging for it.

    I have no idea why he hasnt just bought an online dedi.

  • DamianDamian Member

    I'm still up for taking over one of these if you people are tapping out

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