November: Hardware, Libraries, and Controllers
Welcome to my new tradition: monthly recaps! This month was mostly about tackling personal backlog and closing out accumulated issues. ML310 Migration Continuing my migration from MicroServer to HP ML310e. Ran into a wall of proprietary nonsense like “you need OUR specific fan for $150”. Turns out it’s easy to fool — just short pins 4-5-6 to ground and all errors disappear. Caught some Illegal OpCode errors with the HBA controller and NIC, but disabling Optional ROM in BIOS fixed it. Not a universal solution, but I boot from USB anyway, not disks or network, so it works for me. ...