What Are You Doing Right Now

scottalanmiller

Arguing with someone that thinks that charging $72/hr to drive customer desktops to his office (which I"m guessing is a house) and doing malware removal is not bench work .... and he can't understand why he can't get IT style insurance while doing that.

Too much pride, too little thinking.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Arguing with someone that thinks that charging $72/hr to drive customer desktops to his office (which I"m guessing is a house) and doing malware removal is not bench work .... and he can't understand why he can't get IT style insurance while doing that.

Too much pride, too little thinking.

Someone on SW?

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Arguing with someone that thinks that charging $72/hr to drive customer desktops to his office (which I"m guessing is a house) and doing malware removal is not bench work .... and he can't understand why he can't get IT style insurance while doing that.

Too much pride, too little thinking.

Someone on SW?

Yeah. He wants to get insurance to cover getting his store robbed while keeping a company's desktops there that might or might not contain millions of dollars of secrets or data on them. What insurance company would ever insure them for that! They wouldn't even insure the original company for that, let alone a Geek Squad type service. And even if they did, $72/hr isn't going to cover that insurance.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller hahaha..... yeah sure they "cover it"..

At about a million a year...

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller hahaha..... yeah sure they "cover it"..

At about a million a year...

Yeah, even for IT shops that aren't taking on that kind of liability and earning double or quadruple per hour, they can't afford that kind of insurance 95% of the time. He's taking on 100x the liability with no profits. Impossible.

thwr

Just wrote a little bash script for my dad to sort files, create directories based on filenames, move files into these directories etc on his DIY-NAS.

travisdh1

Just figured out that CentOS 7 is missing a driver for the cheap JBOD we have, wouldn't boot the install script for me, but 6.5 seems to be fine. Wonder if I can do the upgrade to 7 after the 6.5 installer is done.

thwr

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just figured out that CentOS 7 is missing a driver for the cheap JBOD we have, wouldn't boot the install script for me, but 6.5 seems to be fine. Wonder if I can do the upgrade to 7 after the 6.5 installer is done.

What kind of JBOD is that? Normally, there's just an SAS expander?

travisdh1

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just figured out that CentOS 7 is missing a driver for the cheap JBOD we have, wouldn't boot the install script for me, but 6.5 seems to be fine. Wonder if I can do the upgrade to 7 after the 6.5 installer is done.

What kind of JBOD is that? Normally, there's just an SAS expander?

Yep. I'm thinking it's actually the super cheap fake-raid card included with the thing. It's the only card I have that I know is compatible with the expanders used. The system that it was connected to decided to die. If you're interested in how it goes @thwr, I'll just start another thread.

Netinstall is downloading the initial system image right now, I'll tell you more once the install finishes (tomorrow )

scottalanmiller

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just figured out that CentOS 7 is missing a driver for the cheap JBOD we have, wouldn't boot the install script for me, but 6.5 seems to be fine. Wonder if I can do the upgrade to 7 after the 6.5 installer is done.

What kind of JBOD is that? Normally, there's just an SAS expander?

Yep. I'm thinking it's actually the super cheap fake-raid card included with the thing. It's the only card I have that I know is compatible with the expanders used. The system that it was connected to decided to die. If you're interested in how it goes @thwr, I'll just start another thread.

Netinstall is downloading the initial system image right now, I'll tell you more once the install finishes (tomorrow )

If it was FakeRAID, the JBOD portion should just work.

thwr

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just figured out that CentOS 7 is missing a driver for the cheap JBOD we have, wouldn't boot the install script for me, but 6.5 seems to be fine. Wonder if I can do the upgrade to 7 after the 6.5 installer is done.

What kind of JBOD is that? Normally, there's just an SAS expander?

Yep. I'm thinking it's actually the super cheap fake-raid card included with the thing. It's the only card I have that I know is compatible with the expanders used. The system that it was connected to decided to die. If you're interested in how it goes @thwr, I'll just start another thread.

Netinstall is downloading the initial system image right now, I'll tell you more once the install finishes (tomorrow )

Ah ok, I thought you are talking about a disk enclosure...

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just figured out that CentOS 7 is missing a driver for the cheap JBOD we have, wouldn't boot the install script for me, but 6.5 seems to be fine. Wonder if I can do the upgrade to 7 after the 6.5 installer is done.

What kind of JBOD is that? Normally, there's just an SAS expander?

Yep. I'm thinking it's actually the super cheap fake-raid card included with the thing. It's the only card I have that I know is compatible with the expanders used. The system that it was connected to decided to die. If you're interested in how it goes @thwr, I'll just start another thread.

Netinstall is downloading the initial system image right now, I'll tell you more once the install finishes (tomorrow )

If it was FakeRAID, the JBOD portion should just work.

Yep, JBOD just worked with it. Happy mdadm days.

travisdh1

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just figured out that CentOS 7 is missing a driver for the cheap JBOD we have, wouldn't boot the install script for me, but 6.5 seems to be fine. Wonder if I can do the upgrade to 7 after the 6.5 installer is done.

What kind of JBOD is that? Normally, there's just an SAS expander?

Yep. I'm thinking it's actually the super cheap fake-raid card included with the thing. It's the only card I have that I know is compatible with the expanders used. The system that it was connected to decided to die. If you're interested in how it goes @thwr, I'll just start another thread.

Netinstall is downloading the initial system image right now, I'll tell you more once the install finishes (tomorrow )

Ah ok, I thought you are talking about a disk enclosure...

Well.... without the adapter, the enclosure is kinda just a heater.

scottalanmiller

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just figured out that CentOS 7 is missing a driver for the cheap JBOD we have, wouldn't boot the install script for me, but 6.5 seems to be fine. Wonder if I can do the upgrade to 7 after the 6.5 installer is done.

What kind of JBOD is that? Normally, there's just an SAS expander?

Yep. I'm thinking it's actually the super cheap fake-raid card included with the thing. It's the only card I have that I know is compatible with the expanders used. The system that it was connected to decided to die. If you're interested in how it goes @thwr, I'll just start another thread.

Netinstall is downloading the initial system image right now, I'll tell you more once the install finishes (tomorrow )

If it was FakeRAID, the JBOD portion should just work.

Yep, JBOD just worked with it. Happy mdadm days.

If it's a JBOD, it would always need MD RAID. If it had RAID on itself, it would be DAS

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just figured out that CentOS 7 is missing a driver for the cheap JBOD we have, wouldn't boot the install script for me, but 6.5 seems to be fine. Wonder if I can do the upgrade to 7 after the 6.5 installer is done.

What kind of JBOD is that? Normally, there's just an SAS expander?

Yep. I'm thinking it's actually the super cheap fake-raid card included with the thing. It's the only card I have that I know is compatible with the expanders used. The system that it was connected to decided to die. If you're interested in how it goes @thwr, I'll just start another thread.

Netinstall is downloading the initial system image right now, I'll tell you more once the install finishes (tomorrow )

If it was FakeRAID, the JBOD portion should just work.

Yep, JBOD just worked with it. Happy mdadm days.

If it's a JBOD, it would always need MD RAID. If it had RAID on itself, it would be DAS

It actually has a BIOS you can use to configure a RAID array, I've got it configured to just pass the drives to the system. I think I'm sort of silly for even using it in the first place, but it made for a good backup target till the system died. Hopefully it wasn't the card. Even if the card went bad, it shouldn't be that much money to get another eSATA adapter.