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| 06:26.23 | brolin_empey | https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FK1lqE9mphI/XjUZA0c5khI/AAAAAAAAD_8/89lRdLh5QhoHvnJQKqlTZnJk-4zc716AACK8BGAsYHg/s0/2020-01-31.jpg |
| 06:27.50 | brolin_empey | The drive cases finally arrived at my office today, literally one month since I ordered them from DealExtreme. I still need to try using one of them. It looks like I was correct that the circuit board uses screws instead of retaining clips to hold the mSATA card/drive in place. Too bad but I guess I should not complain for the price I paid. |
| 06:43.10 | brolin_empey | Bleh, it uses screws to hold the circuit board in the plastic case too and the mSATA drive is not visible through the case so the label on the mSATA drive is not visible without removing the screws to open the case. Seems like a bad design but I could only buy one or maybe two of the apparently better designed StarTech drive cases for what I paid for ten of these cheap drive cases from Asia. |
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| 07:25.41 | brolin_empey | Apparently getting a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server computer to boot from a SATA SSD that is a clone of the SATA HDD from which the same computer in the same configuration booted without a problem is much easier said than done. Why does the computer not just automatically boot from the new drive, which is a clone of the old drive? Maybe this behaviour is normal for actual server computer hardware but it seems counterintuitive for desktop/notebook computer |
| 07:25.41 | brolin_empey | hardware. We should have gotten a normal desktop computer, which would have been much quieter and would have firmware that behaves normally but this computer was bought in 2014 or earlier and it was not my choice to buy it. |
| 08:25.29 | brolin_empey | I lost the message I wrote because I accidentally pressed Ctrl+Q (Quit) instead of Ctrl+A (Select All). I got the computer to boot from the SATA SSD but only if the RAID controller is enabled and I have to press a key before the computer will boot from the SATA SSD. The RAID controller should be disabled because this computer has only ever had one HDD or SSD installed at once but I cannot get the computer to boot from the SATA SSD unless the RAID |
| 08:25.29 | brolin_empey | controller is enabled. I have spent way too much time on this crap by now, will leave the âfunâ for another day. |
| 08:27.51 | brolin_empey | s/one HDD/one physical HDD/ |
| 08:30.40 | brolin_empey | The ârotationalâ pseudofile for sda in sysfs is 1 instead of 0 even though this computer now has only an SSD, not an HDD. (fail) |
| 09:31.27 | Maxdamantus | When you are trying to do it without having it in RAID mode, do you at least see the device in the boot order menu? |
| 09:32.48 | Maxdamantus | afaik BIOSes tend to have the settings based around SATA slots, so if you put it in a different slot, it's subject to different boot settings. |
| 09:36.35 | brolin_empey | I do not know if this computer was even designed for the use case of having only a single physical HDD or SSD without using RAID because this computer is a rackmount server with hot-pluggable 2.5-inch HDD/SSD bays on the front, not a regular desktop computer. |
| 09:37.24 | Maxdamantus | I would imagine it should support non-RAID mode regardless. |
| 09:37.50 | Maxdamantus | but the boot sequence options will almost certainly involve different configuration depending on whether it's in RAID mode. |
| 09:38.44 | Maxdamantus | that is, you can probably enable/disable individual drives from being booted when in non-RAID mode, but in RAID mode, it will presumably show a separate device which could be enabled/disabled as a boot device. |
| 09:39.19 | Maxdamantus | There should be some menu where you set boot priority. You should see if you can see the SSD in that menu. |
| 09:40.20 | Maxdamantus | I would personally be wary of using the "RAID" functionality provided by a motherboard, even if it's only over one drive. |
| 09:41.54 | Maxdamantus | since unless you're using some dedicaded RAID card that has an NVRAM or backup battery solution for power loss, you're certainly going to be subject to write hole issues if you're using two drives. |
| 09:42.44 | Maxdamantus | and since you have that lack of consistency for two drives, I would wonder if people really expect to care when they're using one drive in RAID mode. |
| 09:45.15 | brolin_empey | I saw something about âATA modeâ but do not know what that means in this context, maybe PATA emulation mode versus AHCI for the SATA host controller? The only way I was able to get the computer to boot from the SATA SSD was to use the setup program for the host controller/RAID controller to create some type of virtual drive from the single physical drive, apparently using RAID 0 (is that striping?) but then I still have to press a key after the firmware |
| 09:45.15 | brolin_empey | <PROTECTED> |
| 09:46.22 | Maxdamantus | RAID0 is striping, yes. |
| 09:47.26 | Maxdamantus | also, presumably when you're using the RAID mode, you don't get regular access to SMART on the drive. |
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| 09:56.02 | brolin_empey | I wonder if the RAID controller is a physical device, such as a plug-in card, that I can remove since I do not want to use RAID. I think the RAID controller is integrated on the motherboard because the motherboard firmware setup program has an option for whether the RAID controller should be enabled. If I disable the RAID controller then I cannot get the computer to boot from the SATA SSD but the computer seems to have noticed that I replaced the SATA HDD |
| 09:56.02 | brolin_empey | with a SATA SSD even though the new drive is a clone of the old drive. I guess I should search the Internet for how to use the PowerEdge 2950 with a single physical HDD/SSD without using RAID but I expected that the computer would just boot unattended after replacing the drive so I already had to connect a video monitor and keyboard just to see why the computer was not available on the network because usually this computer is only accessed over the network |
| 09:56.02 | brolin_empey | after the OS is running from the HDD or SSD. |
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| 10:40.46 | brolin_empey | Wow, with WineVDM on my office computer, I actually have the Comet Busters New Executable file running on Windows 10 for x86-64! The WavMix16 DLL is not correctly installed so Comet Busters seems to be using PC speaker sound effects that are emulated using the normal âsound cardâ (actually just an IC on the motherboard) but these simple sound effects seem to have stopped working after playing the game for a while. |
| 10:42.16 | brolin_empey | Apparently WineVDM is sufficiently advanced technology. |
| 12:04.13 | brolin_empey | Apparently it works with the âsound cardâ too but I always reach game over on level 2. |
| 12:06.16 | brolin_empey | I wonder if the network multiplayer works with Windows 7 for x86-64 on another computer in my office. |
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| 23:37.29 | brolin_empey | Maxdamantus: https://www.dell.com/community/PowerEdge-HDD-SCSI-RAID/PowerEdge-2950-Boot/td-p/4449992 Search the page for âwithout raidâ. It sounds like the drive bays at the front of the PowerEdge 2950 are connected to a RAID host controller card but that the motherboard also has SATA host ports but they are not intended to have an HDD/SSD connected to them. So, this seems to explain why I can only boot from the SATA SSD installed in the drive |
| 23:37.29 | brolin_empey | bay/backplane/I do not know my terminology for actual server computer hardware in the front using RAID. I guess I should try to connect the SATA SSD directly to the motherboard even if that requires disconnecting the internal ODD. I can probably use a USB ODD if I ever need an ODD on this computer again now that the OS is already installed on the HDD/SSD in the computer. |
| 23:55.20 | Maxdamantus | Now that you mention an ODD, is that ODD connected directly to one of the motherboard's SATA ports? Because if so, you might want to try connecting it to a different one. |
| 23:55.56 | Maxdamantus | Usually the M.2 SATA slot is physically shared with one of the SATA ports. |
| 23:57.16 | Maxdamantus | since the CPU/chipset will have a particular number of logical SATA ports (eg, 6 or 8), and the motherboard will usually provide physical SATA ports for all of those logical ports, and if it supports M.2, it will reuse one of the physical ports there. |
