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    Net6501-50 kingston ssd crash serial port not working

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      piwwo
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      Hello sorry for the late reply I had given up the topic already.

      Anyhow, yes the serial was working once, I installed it on this. But I don't know if its the soekris or the usb serial adapter thats shitty. Sometimes I can type sometimes not. I tired minicom under Linux and Putty under Windows, see all output but have no input at all. I am now trying again with another ssd. Yes I had a full install on it.

      I can boot memstick after giving kernel console output with bautrate but I still have no input.
      When pfsense boots, WAN-port comes up and gets an IP but I can not access ssh or webinterface either (connection timeout on both).

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        It does sound like you have a bad connection somewhere.

        Steve

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          kejianshi
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          I'm interested in what kind of SSD was being run and if there was some sort of reliable wear leveling or trim?  If not - Wouldn't recommend running a full install like that again.

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            piwwo
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            The ssd used for install was a ssdnow series drive sms100s2/32g

            I also don't understand why I get no input on the consoles. I tried three different USB-Serial adapters and three different computers, one with windows and putty and two with linux. I always get full normal output but can not type a key or command.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Bad console cable? Bad connector on the box?

              Steve

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                piwwo
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                I don't know, I tried different adapters as said could be the cable but I have only one serial.

                Anyhow, when I manage to mount the SSD in another freebsd or pfsense, where do I find the configfile for the fullinstall version? i see there are /cf/conf but it is not a cf card…
                And is that on ad6s1a or ad6s2a partition? Both seem same

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  It's in the /conf folder. In Nano that's a simlink to /cf/conf because as you pointed out it's stored on a separate slice.

                  Can you test your console cable on some other piece of equipment? Have you tried waggling it?  ;)

                  Steve

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                    kejianshi
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                    This is probably a dumb question, but I know your drive was capable of trim but was trim set up on the pfsense?

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                      piwwo
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                      trim: I didn't know of that feature, so if pfSense didnt set it by default, I probably didn't set it.

                      About the slice:

                      g_vfs_done():ufs/pfsense1[READ(offset=1024004096, length=35328)]error = 5
                      vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error
                      vm_fault: pager read error, pid 296 (php)
                      ad6: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL retrying (1 retry left) LBA=5854679

                      So it seems that's the one with the error… I can mount ad6s1a without problems but ad6s2a won't allow me to mount it unless I set -o ro therefore I suppose that's the broken one.
                      Unfortunately I have only one serial cable but three different usb. Their serial ends are male however, so I need a female-female cable to connect them with the soekris. I tried to get a console on another box (not soekris) but that didnt work either.

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                        kejianshi
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                        Yep - Not setting up TRIM will destroy your MLC drive in a hurry.

                        These will last a good long time with no special treatment.  They are SLC

                        http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-313-Series-SLC-SSD-Cache-24GB-mSATA-SSDMAEXC024G3H-HP-P-N-670071-001-/181509630521?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a42d12a39

                        http://www.ebay.com/itm/111017164826?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

                        Try to find new spares if you can.

                        Or, if you feel like playing with TRIM, any good new drive will work IF you enable TRIM.

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                          piwwo
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                          Yes I will need some spares now, I will look your recommendations up and check into trim feature, thank you.

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