Re: FreeBSD > 4.11 hardware issue with Asus PSCH-SR/SATA mobo

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On 2006-06-18, Bill Vermillion <bv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
And about 5 years ago when the little Intel 1000?? 1RU servers came
out we put a couple in our racks. The HW defaults to 19200 on those.

Ew, yes. There's (of course) peecee BIOSes that take something else.
Had a few opterons that did that. Luckily the first-time setup was over
vga+keyboard and then it was easily fixed. You simply cannot trust
anything peeceeish to work right the first time without vga and keyboard.


I've not seen anything that defaults to higher than that.

Some cheap-ish external ide<->scsi raid boxes. Depending on the revision
I've seen 38400 and 115200, and not changeable either. Most of the
manual is devoted to screenshots of whatever terminal emulator they used
on windows. Really great stuff, that. It conveniently forgets to tell
you the numbering order of the disks[1] and the firmware offers no way
to force-configure anything. So if you (or your predecessor) didn't put
in a hot spare and you accidentally touch the wrong disk to replace, the
whole raid is gone in an instant. I positively hate that firmware line.


Though I do recall when updating the IOS in Cisco routers, it works
best when using the supplied software that you login at the default
9600, set things up for 115,000, and then reset your program on the
PC, otherwise the transfers go really really slow.

Or use the serial to setup an interface and use that instead. On the
cisco switches I had a vlan separated for just that purpose. Took one
separate port on the management box (could have vlan-trunked there as
well, but hadn't) but otherwise the switches in the cluster didn't need
to sacrifice ports; their IPAs were marked for use on that vlan only.


[1] And the fancier model had three stacks of disks, not one large row.

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