Mastodawn

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

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

HP van Braam 1d ago

It occurred to me that I've had a #harddisk fail on me and lose data in like 2001 and vowed to only use #raid ever since.

And I have, my primary laptop has 4 #nvme drives in raid10, my thin and light has 2 in raid 1, my desktop 4 in raid 10 also.

It also occurred to me that even since the first sata ssd I've used I've never not even once had an #ssd fail without warning, ever.

I'm probably gonna keep using raid but I'm beginning to think maybe it's not really necessary any more...

#computers

chirp 3d ago

🇫🇷 Ce forcené lance trois (3) grenades défensives datant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale sur le RAID. Un arsenal militaire découvert: ~3000 munitions, plus d'une vingtaine d'armes toutes chargées et en état de fonctionnement, dont un (1) pistolet-mitrailleur 🇬🇧 STEN. L'individu avait son petit atelier de fabrication de munitions. #france #chateauroux #raid #police #violence #firearms #weapons #ammunition #threats [ https://www.francebleu.fr/centre-val-de-loire/indre-36/chateauroux/une-vingtaine-d-armes-des-milliers-de-munitions-ce-que-l-on-sait-de-l-homme-interpelle-par-le-raid-a-chateauroux-7304081 ]

Une vingtaine d'armes, des milliers de munitions : ce que l'on sait de l'homme interpellé par le RAID à Châteauroux

Le RAID est intervenu à Châteauroux pour un homme armé, retranché chez lui, ce mardi 17 février 2026. Le forcené a ouvert le feu dans la matinée sur des policiers. Lors de l'intervention du RAID, il a été gravement blessé. On fait le point sur ce que l'on sait ce mardi soir.

ICI, le média de la vie locale

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Valentin 3d ago

@m23hauke @nomore Gibt es Bestrebungen, dass das wieder besser wird? Ich habe vor zwei Wochen verzweifelt versucht bei der Installation von OpenSuse ein #Softraid anzugelegen. #OpenSuse #Leap 16.0 stable
#raid

Guillaume Parent-Ruest 5d ago

#recyclage
#linux

Donc des collègues à moi ont trouvés un #Bosch Divar IP 2000 et ils se sont dits que j'étais le seul du groupe à être capable de le réutiliser (ce qui est faux car je suis seulement assez borné pour le faire lol). Mais en effet, c'est un serveur pour enregistrer des conférences live qui n'est plus supporté par #microslop mais je peux faire un serveur avec Linux. J'avais justement 2 disques dur mécanique de 8TB donc ça sera du #raid 1 probablement pour une redondance.

A+!

Serious Sly Feb 13

Raid sur la dernière base du serveur #DayzFr
C’est l’épisode 13 de la série Squad Melkart Revenge!
C’est par ici: https://youtu.be/knjubglxFbs

#dayz #histoire #narratif #raid #Bohemianinteractive #zombie #serioussly #squad #melkart #fr #youtubeserie

Kemel Zaidan Feb 10

This article explains what I could not find anywhere else: how the data parity works in #RAID 5/6. Every video and article on the Internet just mentions that without actually explaining it.

Data Parity in RAID: Works & Role in RAID 5/6 #DataRecovery

https://share.google/PwtAZiNy6uaw7dfso

Data Parity in RAID: What is it? How it Works and its Role in RAID Data Recovery

Learn what data parity in RAID is, how it works in RAID. Discover parity types, XOR logic, and tools like Stellar Data Recovery for failed RAID arrays.

Stellar Data Recovery Inc.

Dendrobatus Azureus Feb 10

I've recently finished a task set entrusted to me by a client. The task was executed 100% remotely with server farm(s) thousands of nautical miles away.

Skillset used are

(remote) server VM management (XEN and ProxMox**)
Linux client server experience
VOIP (incl asterisk)
specific migration skills varying from simple looking updates (which can break custom hard coded scripts & programs PHP code, C code, etc) to full server migrations to higher versions often spanning more than two versional steps in between
filesystems in different Open Source OS where redundancy building of data is important
bare metal skills
BSD (limited yet good enough experience)
Bare metal server placement
Energy and heat distribution
logic
patience / patience / patience
KISS

I get computing related tasks from this client for more than 30 years, which means that a solid basis of mutual trust has been build between us

I love having my client feeling extra great again after this task set was completed.

** Including proxmox LB code!

#Linux #ProxMox #networking #filesystems #EXT4 #RAID #BSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #programming #mathematics #Physics #Chemistry #technology

Obscure_Rebel has moved!Feb 10

“BREAKING: France Just Raided Elon Musk’s X Offices In Paris — And It’s Bad. Really, Really, Bad”

by Dean Blundell on Substack

“This is about power. Influence. And what happens when one billionaire decides the rules don’t apply to him anymore while trying to hide decades of criminality, treason, and alleged pedophelia and the ongoing amplification of child pornography, sexual abuse, and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein”

https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-france-just-raided-elon

#Press #Musk #France #X #Raid #Epstein