Filmic FelixMar 23
Paying tribute to the beauty of the Apple Xserve. We have a rack in our datacentre I usually think of as our legacy rack. There are six still present, though they are all powered down. Two or three had their backplanes swapped from raid to passthru so they could run ESXi. I have another 3 at home but similarly they are all powered down. They eat a lot of power and make a lot of noise but I remember them purring away in the old MDF running ALL THE SERVICES back when I was in highschool as a tech TA.


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Show threadCeceliaFeb 22

I found a lead! Someone got busy writing a driver to get internal drives to work with an Apple Xserve.

https://na.thanreed.com/2025/02/22/xserve-raid-card.html

#LinuxOnMac #MacPro #Xserve #RAID

Writing a Linux driver for the Apple RAID Card

In this post, I describe from start to finish how I reverse-engineered the communication between the Apple RAID Card and its macOS driver to write a basic Linux driver for it. To do this, I modified the QEMU hypervisor to facilitate tracing DMA (direct memory access) traffic between macOS and the device, wrote an emulated “digital twin” of the RAID Card as a QEMU device to validate and refine my understanding of the communication protocol, and finally wrote a “hackathon-quality” Linux driver for the emulated device and successfully tested it against the real hardware.

Nathan Reed
Dan ⁂Jan 22

hypothetically, what would one do with an old #xserve?

definitely is quite old, not sure if people on kleinanzeigen are looking for stuff like that?

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#computers #hardware #technology

Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪Dec 6, 2024

Celebrating the Apple Xserve G5! 🚀 Its innovative features and exceptional performance make it a top choice - the System X (aka Big Mac :)) Cluster of Xserve at Virginia Tech even made Top 10 of the supercomputer list in 2004.

#retrocomputing #Apple #PowerPC #Xserve #vintagecomputers

Grant HutchinsonOct 10, 2024
Believe it or not, all of these #Xserve and #XRAID bits are still available. Pick one or pick them all. Cover the shipping and they could be yours.
https://mastodon.social/@splorp/113227827994142432
Grant HutchinsonSep 30, 2024

It’s #RetroComputing Get Rid of Some Goodies Monday!

Anyone need service parts for an #Xserve G5, Xserve Xeon (early 2009), or #XRAID?

I have a set of new, in box parts* including the logic board, fan array, and power supply for each Xserve, plus the controller and cooling modules for the XRAID.

I’m willing to let these go for the cost of shipping from western Canada.

* Items are unused, in the original packaging, but everything has been opened for inspection at some point.

Show threadStephen HoffmanMay 27, 2024

@mvilain That depends greatly on what ypu’re doing with that old Mac Pro.

Given the budget, probably an incremental migration of services from that Mac Pro or #Xserve to Synology, where Synology supports the needed add-on services.

I’ve done similar migrations. For those, Synology and #Ubiquiti together can provide most (all?) needed network services.

Past that, I’ve used a mix of other network and server giblets. Ghe occasional OpenVMS server too, in the before times.

For an app needing a small back-end, I’ve implemented my own, built back-end platforms, and would now look at using Parse Platform or similar.

Haven’t used Synology containers or VM guests as yet, but what I’ve already used as worked as expected.

 Hacker NewsMay 26, 2024
Kernel developer write a USB driver in 3h for Apple Xserve front-panel [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXBC85SGC0Q
#ycombinator #linux #t2sde #intel #apple #xserve #kernel #driver #usb #front #panel #rack #meter #xeon #powermac #powerpc #macintosh #mac #macos #xserve_frontpanel #led #write #code
Watch Linux kernel developer write a USB driver from scratch in just 3h for Apple Xserve front-panel

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 Hacker NewsMay 26, 2024
Kernel dev writes a USB driver from scratch in 3h [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXBC85SGC0Q
#ycombinator #linux #t2sde #intel #apple #xserve #kernel #driver #usb #front #panel #rack #meter #xeon #powermac #powerpc #macintosh #mac #macos #xserve_frontpanel #led #write #code