Post AkXcMmlAbbpwp0vdVA by adrianco@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AkXcMlFEEsh07eyc4m by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:35:38Z
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Giving away a bunch of old & obscure (e.g., collectible) PCIe cards. You'll have to send me a SASE or UPS equivalent (no Fedex, pls), OR - buy me a coffee somewhere near Palo Alto. DMs open.First up... \
(DIR) Post #AkXcMm8stxDCuH13pI by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:38:10Z
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An LSI 22320SE SCSI card. I was playing with Exabyte drives trying to recover old tapes, but no luck.Next ...\
(DIR) Post #AkXcMmlAbbpwp0vdVA by adrianco@mastodon.social
2024-08-01T14:10:00Z
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@aka_pugs I have a Sun exabyte drive (and QIC11/24) and a system that still works, so I can read old archives. It’s in storage at the moment. If you have something you really want to get off tape let me know.
(DIR) Post #AkXcMnVFqGhT7wURKi by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-08-01T16:15:13Z
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@adrianco I'm pretty sure my tapes are corrupt, because I got new tapes working. They're Exabyte - my home dir backups from Sun 1994. Sigh.
(DIR) Post #AkXcMnpSd8ra8bwZpQ by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:39:48Z
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An LSI SCSI RAID controller (no battery included).Next... \
(DIR) Post #AkXcMoEH8siFNZYOVU by robpike@hachyderm.io
2024-08-01T21:07:15Z
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@aka_pugs @adrianco And then there was the day around 1990 I took out my 9 track backup tape from the 1970s to grab something there before the last 9 track drive in the lab went away, only to watch ferric dust fall off. It was all gone.Backups must be curated, a lesson that must be learned and relearned.For those who don't know, a (once ubiquitous) 9 track tape on a drive looks like this; nowadays they only show up in old movies.
(DIR) Post #AkXcMp1uAMPZrUm1rc by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2024-08-02T01:34:43Z
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@robpike @aka_pugs @adrianco That's the year I lost most of my life's work to backup tape. Never did offline storage ever again. Spinning disks (or etc), live on a system is most reliable, and redundancy. Yes, disks fail all the time. But a live system informs you, you replace it, copy from another source, there you go. That said, I love half inch reel tape, it's so mechanically tangible and fun to watch!
(DIR) Post #AkXcMpOao0YkzrO9E8 by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:41:48Z
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An ATTO internal SAS controller. I believe this is based on the Marvell SAS chip, in which most of the SAS protocol is controlled by the driver, not the firmware (mucho hacking potential).Next... \
(DIR) Post #AkXcMqrLMb9TXJqcgC by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:44:07Z
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Quite rare: a standalone Cisco "Palo" NIC/VIC. With extended PCIe kludge.Next... \
(DIR) Post #AkXcMscWoeUOzwvorg by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:45:35Z
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2 Myricom NICs from 2006. I think these are their 10Gb NICs with CX4 connectors.Next ...\
(DIR) Post #AkXcMuO4FO6uTgBIbQ by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:46:58Z
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One of the earliest 10G Ethernet NICs with SFP+ from Neterion.Next... \
(DIR) Post #AkXcMw63tItbmPlwoa by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:50:06Z
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A Giganet cLAN1000 cluster network adapter. Not Ethernet - implemented the "VI" architecture (there'a a book about that somewhere). See https://www.hpcwire.com/1999/08/13/giganet-demos-new-scalable-cluster-network-at-linuxworld/Next... \
(DIR) Post #AkXcMxfC4AamdfDWDI by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:51:48Z
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2 different "Killer" gigabit "gaming" NICs. These have a PowerPC processor for offloads. I tried hacking them but the firmware appears to be crypto-locked.
(DIR) Post #AkXcMz8IbRT5CDqHDc by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:53:44Z
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A Clearspeed floating point accelerator. These were hot stuff for a very short amount of time. I played around a bit with this when I was developing VFIO.Next... \
(DIR) Post #AkXcN0nSPtz8MA6f0i by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:56:18Z
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2 Tandem (Compaq) "Servernet" NICs. Forget Storage Area Network SANs - these were System Area Network SANs. (Which is what Infiniband first wanted to be). These are where the curse of RDMA comes from.Next... \
(DIR) Post #AkXcN2D1AM1cjj4aUS by aka_pugs@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T23:57:55Z
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2 Dolphin interconnect cards, not sure which of their many architectures. They always had very interesting but not very successful stuff.That's all for now!
(DIR) Post #AkXedKybMAHrU6EPFA by teajaygrey@rap.social
2024-08-02T02:00:06Z
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@tomjennings sage advice.I remember the last time I was at nps.navy.mil/nps.edu circa 2005/2006.They had: two tiers of NetApps on site, and a 10Gbps uplink to a third tier off-site.In response to questions about their backup "strategy" they responded with something like: "if it's not in snapshots, if it's not in the second tier, if it's not off-site? Then it's offline and thus a liability we can't check and we don't want that."Somewhere Woz once described his backup strategy, it also involved tiers. No doubt, he learned the hard way, how things can fail and about not putting all of one's eggs into one backup basket.@robpike @aka_pugs @adrianco