[TriLUG] B320i RAID controller driver

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Sun, 31 May 2020, Matt Flyer via TriLUG wrote:

> Joe,
>
> Interesting article, thank you for sharing.

It was a surprise to me. Everything I've heard since the early days of RAID, is 
that RAID is great.

> On a side note, the ending of Python 2.7 and going to 3.7 has been a 
> real pain the rear end in terms of updating my Gentoo system as 
> everything - as in all the packages -- need to be rebuilt against the 
> newer python and that requires the maintainers to update everything, 
> which is a daunting task and one that often times puts you in circular 
> dependency situations.

I have a rule: never update a working system. (It can't get any better; it can 
only get worse.)

My two routers/firewalls are 20 years old; they boot off IDE drives. In 20 
years, I've had one fan die and a couple of disks die. Other than that, the 
uptime is measured in years. I've just updated one of them, knowing that I can't 
rely on getting more IDE drives. I'll update the other sometime.

I have a map generator on the web. It relies on perl that's 25 years old. I have 
other things to do with my life than to rejigger perl code that I no longer 
understand, just because someone brings out a new version of perl.

Most of my machines at home were installed 10 years ago. The only thing I need 
new is a web browser that handles the onslaught of new certificates on https 
sites and plays videos. I have one machine for that that displays on my 10 year 
old work machines.

I have lots of code that's decades old that I'm not going to rewrite because of 
progress.

Machines are cheap. They're $100.

I get mine from

DreamNet Computers, 3040 Berks Way #104, Wake Forest, NC, 27614, (919)-435-0428

You can get a nice used x86_64 machine from them, without disk and without OS,
and 8G of memory for about $100.

Set one up for your Python 2.7 machine.

> As one poster put it in the forum, "I am beginning to really hate python".

Linux makes no attempt to have backwards compatibility. If you go to Linux 
conferences, they think it's a feature; you just reinstall everything. They're 
very glad that they aren't like M$ who has to have backwards compatibility.

However for those who have legacy code, a reinstall doesn't work.

Joe

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