4200 Dead
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Didn't even know a 4200 has a user accessible BIOS.
Yup full AMI bios in the 4200. Currently.
If it's in warranty then you should open a ticket an if it really has failed it would be replaced.
If not you can add an NVMe drive and install to that:
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@stephenw10 said in 4200 Dead:
Didn't even know a 4200 has a user accessible BIOS.
Yup full AMI bios in the 4200. Currently.
Any plans for core boot bios on future devices ?
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We are looking at alternatives. Development costs are significant though.
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@stephenw10 how many NVMe drives can this model rock? You could do mirroring on it, wow !! That is a lot of ports, it could do logging on one, disk cache on one with rock running, snort logging. Wow 4100? Get a Optane H10, Amazon still sells them. Great deals
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The 4200 has two slots that support NVMe. The 3rd slot is USB only.
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Opened an RMA, shipped it this afternoon, the eMMC presumably did fail. When I get it back I'm definitely moving off the internal drive and onto an NVMe. Thanks Netgate for the quick response.
I think it's pretty clear the eMMCs are causing repeated problems, and I'm sure there's a threshold where you should decide to do away with the "base" model and just automatically drop an NVME in these by default as you sell them. Doesn't have to be huge or expensive.
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A andrew_cb referenced this topic on
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How can I check eMMC drive write status on Netgate 4200?
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Unfortunately there's no way to check directly on the 4200. The USB connected storage does not pass the required access to allow it to be read.
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@stephenw10 then can be M2 2280 installed in 4200 base model? I have one new WD WDS040G2G0B in stock.
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Yes. But not that device because it's SATA. The 4200 only supports NVMe drives.
