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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Perl link extractor

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Colin Faber
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Below is a simple script I use almost daily which I thought I would share with you all. The script fetches various URL’s then extracts all hyper links from the fetched data. It cleans them up a bit and prints … Continue reading →

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Parse smb.conf based on an NFS mapping directory

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Colin Faber
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So I’m not sure how others run their home networks but in my case I have a single large NFS NAS. This NAS hosts both Samba and NFS shares as well as a web portal. After many years of trying … Continue reading →

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Simple script to alert you on ZFS pool problems

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Colin Faber
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So after looking around this morning for a simple file system script to alert me when my ZFS pools have problems on my new file server I found a few, the problem was none worked correctly. Strangely these scripts were … Continue reading →

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Hacking the IBM M1015 a.k.a. LSI 9640-8i RAID controller

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Colin Faber
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As of late I’ve been diligently working on a new file server system for my home network. The current file server I have utilizes an old Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i RAID card. This worked well to handle the many drives I have, … Continue reading →

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Finally finished with FP836 restoration

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Colin Faber
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Well I finally had some time at the end of the day today to finish the FP836 front panel restoration. About the only thing it needed was two new LED’s for the faults. Unfortunately to my dismay the thermal fault … Continue reading →

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Custom wiring harness for Supermicro FP836 front panel module

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Colin Faber
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So after sorting the pin out of the FP836 module here, I’ve created a new wiring harness. It’s reasonably simple with IDC single pin connectors and 1 IDC 2×8 16 pin male header. This allows me to connect directly to … Continue reading →

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Pinout for Supermicro FP836 front panel connector

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Colin Faber
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Recently I purchased a used SC836 Supermicro chassis, it was pretty much stripped to the bare bones. My plan is to make this into a file server, however I don’t want to utilize a Supermicro motherboard. Lucky for me it … Continue reading →

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