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Just make sure you get the newer motherboard version with the fatal flaw fixed. Or wait for the 3xxx boards..
What fatal flaw are you referring to? Is it applicable to the 2558 model?
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Did anyone upgrade his (or her :)) Supermicro A1SRi-2758f pfSense installation to 2.4 beta already? If so, any hardware related problems or is everything OK?
Rock solid. Supermicro A1SRi-2558f, 16GB. using all 4 nics and vlans.
EDIT: using ZFS with clean install and config restore.
Just make sure you get the newer motherboard version with the fatal flaw fixed. Or wait for the 3xxx boards..
What fatal flaw are you referring to? Is it applicable to the 2558 model?
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Just make sure you get the newer motherboard version with the fatal flaw fixed. Or wait for the 3xxx boards..
What fatal flaw are you referring to? Is it applicable to the 2558 model?
The Atom C2000-series chips LPC clock failure flaw.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=125105.0 -
Yikes on that fatal flaw! Oddly enough, I haven't finished the physical build of my custom pfSense machine, but I bought it prior to fix, so I definitely cannot return it. I'll need to RMA. I'd hate to have to get refurb one though, as this one is still brand new.
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Just use it. I have one A1SAi2770 with 2 years and one A1SRi2558 running fine. Don't worry.
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Just use it. I have one A1SAi2770 with 2 years and one A1SRi2558 running fine. Don't worry.
That's what I was thinking, especially considering I won't be pushing this hardware that hard. If it failed later on outside of warranty, with this being a documented design flaw, would there be a way of getting it repaired without cost?
Also, with what Netgate did, is there a way to disabled LPC/SERIRQ feature of board if we don't need it?
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Also, with what Netgate did, is there a way to disabled LPC/SERIRQ feature of board if we don't need it?
To me, that's the 1 million dollar quetion… ;D
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Supermicro told me if I send it back, they'd apply fix to it and send it back to me. I'm up in the air on it. I plan to keep this board a long time, so even if it failed 4-5 years in, I'd find it annoying if I didn't have it taken care of it.
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Super micro did the same to me. They did clear the cmos but the IPMI hostname I set was the same so they are sending the same board back.
I used the Antec ISK110 Vesa case which includes a power supply and just used some wires to mount a fan on the grill. My A1SRi-2758f is running great but it will be interesting to see the temps in the summer when the garage it is stored in turns into a hot box. I saw it hitting 80 C in the old case I had it where the airflow sucked in the 2U case I was using before.
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Super micro did the same to me. They did clear the cmos but the IPMI hostname I set was the same so they are sending the same board back.
Cool. You just have to cover shipping costs to them? All you have send back is board itself, right?