| 18:21 | topi`> | Ke: get an ATX power, I did that, works very well. |
| 18:21 | topi`> | just remember to kludge a jumper wire to the "PWR GOOD" signal :) |
| 18:24 | Ke> | you know mcbin actually has atx connector |
| 18:24 | Ke> | at some point I have hacked some automotive devices to boot with atx |
| 18:56 | topi`> | btw do you want an account on my mcbin? :) |
| 18:56 | topi`> | user account, no root sorry :) |
| 18:57 | Ke> | hmm, what should I do with that? |
| 18:58 | Ke> | you mean you are handing out shell accounts for irssi and such, or just for some testing purposes |
| 18:58 | topi`> | probably nothing :) |
| 18:58 | topi`> | compile slave? |
| 18:58 | Ke> | ^^ |
| 18:59 | topi`> | it recently crashed and I have no clue why. |
| 18:59 | Ke> | mine monero |
| 18:59 | Ke> | not probably too useful for that |
| 18:59 | topi`> | so I had to have someone go to the bunker room to do a power reset |
| 18:59 | Ke> | and that helped? |
| 18:59 | topi`> | well problem with monero mining is that the algo was designed to require a 2 MB L2 cache to avert asics |
| 18:59 | topi`> | and the 8040 of mcbin has only 1 MB afaik |
| 19:00 | Ke> | yeah |
| 19:00 | topi`> | power resets always help :) but it becomes expensive if I need to send somebody out every week to do a reset |
| 19:00 | Ke> | if RCS provides I will have power9 in a couple of months |
| 19:00 | topi`> | I need a lights-out-management |
| 19:00 | topi`> | oh, the power9 will surely have plenty of L2 :) |
| 19:00 | Ke> | have you tried watchdog |
| 19:01 | topi`> | do you mean a hardware watchdog (to cut out the PWR) or some software wd? |
| 19:01 | Ke> | yeah, Raptor Engineering actually claimed it was cost effective for mining |
| 19:01 | Ke> | well as hardware as there already is on the board |
| 19:01 | topi`> | the most effective for mining is a ROCK64 board. I have some, and they manage 14 hash per second and the price is $25 |
| 19:01 | topi`> | hard to beat |
| 19:02 | topi`> | do you have any docs at hand to enable the HW watchdog on mcbin? |
| 19:02 | topi`> | is it a feature of the mcbin motherboard, or the 8040? |
| 19:02 | Ke> | I assume 8040 |
| 19:02 | Ke> | I think linux has a generic driver interface for that, if someone has implemented it |
| 19:03 | topi`> | dmesg | grep wd gives nothing |
| 19:03 | Ke> | 1) make sure you have the driver available 2) install watchdog/enable watchdog in systemd |
| 19:03 | topi`> | maybe this kernel doesn't have it enabled |
| 19:03 | topi`> | I need suihkulokki's kernel! |
| 19:04 | Ke> | yeah, suihkulokki's kernel is like a ninja, but cooler |
| 19:05 | topi`> | my problem is, I loaded up the pre-built kernel I downloaded from somewhere, but forgot to place the modules in /lib/modules |
| 19:05 | topi`> | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Feb 7 2106 Image -> Image-4.4.8-mcbin-marvell |
| 19:05 | topi`> | that's from my /boot |
| 19:06 | topi`> | problem is, I can't access UBOOT's console now |
| 19:06 | Ke> | anyway, I believe there is hw watchdog on the board, as I saw a driver in u-boot that mentioned marvell armada or something |
| 19:06 | topi`> | until I manage to hook up a box for remotely accessing the UART console of mcbin |
| 19:07 | topi`> | 536870912 bytes (537 MB, 512 MiB) copied, 0.668543 s, 803 MB/s |
| 19:07 | topi`> | I have a pretty speedy Sandisk attached to the SATA ports of the mcbin :) |
| 19:08 | topi`> | hmm, that can't be true, since SATA is limited at around 500MB/s |
| 19:08 | Ke> | if that was write, did you do fsync? |
| 19:08 | topi`> | yeah I should have specified fsync on dd's command line |