Infrastructure/Hosts/SGM-DEN-SRV-07.LATHAMA.NET
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| MAC | 6c:bf:b5:03:13:f6 6c:bf:b5:03:13:f7 |
| IP Address | 192.168.15.15 |
| Site | DEN |
| Room | Basement |
| Status | Operational |
| Commissioned | 2023-09-08 |
| Decommissioned | |
| Make | Terramaster |
| Model | F2-423 |
| RAM | 20gb DDR4 (4gb + 16gb) |
| Drives | WD Green 1TB SSD Samsung 1TB SSD WD Black NVME 1TB |
| Firmware | SMBIOS 3.3.0 or 5.19 |
| OS | Debian |
Features
- AES offloading
- 2x 2.5gb Network ports
- 2x NVME slots
- 2x User replacable RAM slots DDR4
- 2x external USB type A ports
- 2x hot swap SATA drive bays for 3.5 and 2.5 drives
- Quiet fan
DLNA Manual URL
Over a NAT on the guest wifi one could use something like
upnp://192.168.15.15:8200/ctl/ContentDir&ObjectID=0
or direct to the video folder at
upnp://192.168.15.15:8200/ctl/ContentDir?ObjectID=2%2415
Manually entered into VLC to browse.
Using VLC to connect to the Minidlna service on the LAN you can find the proper URL and then paste it in on the Guest Network
2024-11-17 NVME Issues
After several weeks of strange issues I finally found that the Western Digital NVME drive model SN770 1TB has issues with reading. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/14793
- New Corsair drive ordered
- Had to buy an external NVME interface to test
- No data loss found
- Will setup monitoring
2024-11-21 Update
Installed OS on new Corsair NVME drive and ran for a while. Went to check today and found it read-only. Very upset
Loading the systemd journal on another machine shows no issue as what ever happened sent it to read-only. Good news, the 1TB may be fine but just a bad nas :(
2024-12-01 findings
After a complete mess of work I found that one of the to RAM sticks has a problem. Remove the RAM stick and everything is happy. Should have started with a memtest
2024-12-06 Success
Several days, zero issues, clean dmesg after the ram was removed.
Notes
- I installed Debian on an NVME on my NAS. I did not use the TOS software.
- There is a hard-coded always boot TOS that can be disabled via a bios update and setting change.
- Read but don't follow https://forum.terra-master.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=4238
- Download https://download2.terra-master.com/Bios_T1509BG0.zip
- Make a clean USB stick for upgrade that is easy to plug and unplug in the back
- parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel msdos mkpart primary fat32 0% 100%
- mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb
- Expand the zip file
- COPY the files to the USB Memory stick
- Insert it into the NAS
- Boot and enter bios
- Remove HDDs and NVME if you do not want to take risks. I did it with NVME and HDDs inside so YMMV
- Go to the Boot menu
- Go to the UEFI USB Drive BBS Priorities at the bottom
- Select a boot device that looks like General UDISK 5.00, Partition 1 (this could vary slightly)
- Save and exit
- Wait and watch as it updates the bios, will take a few minutes
- Power off the nas
- Remove the USB Memory stick and on another computer remove everything but the directories
- Safely remove USB Memory stick and put it back in the nas
- Power on
- After some time you should end up at the EFI shell, if not you can enter it via the BIOS menu
- change to the device with "fs0:" sort of like MSDOS doing an "a:"
- ls (to see if you have the right device where you see the two dirs of DmiEditEfi64 and EFI)
- cd DmiEditEfi64 (tab completion should work)
- Run "AMIDEEFIx64.EFI /SP 000-F2423-NT140-0001"
- Note the model name in the address, you can replace with yours if not a F2-423
- Power off
- Remove memory stick
- Install drives etc.
- Boot, go to bios
- Under the Fast heading there should be a new option at the bottom "TOS Boot First" which you disable.
- set your boot order, save and exit
(writing this while recalling what I did diff)