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Another step in my journey of battery testing

Genesis 12V 16EP A battery is a chemical container. Its capable of storing and providing electrical energy as needed until exhausted. After it is exhausted, it must be recharged or…

RobPatton January 3, 2022

Tech

Dell Poweredge R710 Identification

Dell manufactured two generations of the PowerEdge R710 server model and therefore two different revisions of the PowerEdge R710 system board. It is important to understand the differences between the…

RobPatton October 19, 2018

Fixing broken stuff Tech

Leitz Icon printer – No Cartridge Loaded

I have a love and hate relationship with this printer, this is my second, the first just stopped working, and they sent me a new one. Its been pretty good,…

RobPatton May 19, 2017

Tech Virtualization VMWare FreeNAS

VMWare host SMART error on usb

I boot my hosts from a usb drive (The hosts have no local storage) This process causes this error: fetch_fixed_disk_status: fetch VSI_NODE_storage_scsifw_devices_smart_healthStatus(t10.SanDisk_Cruzer_Fit______ 4C532000061012110161) failed Not supported, reporting unknown status…

RobPatton May 15, 2017

Fixing broken stuff Tech Virtualization VMWare FreeNAS

FREENAS and VMWARE storage troubles..

After some recent upgrades: Esxi 6.5 FreeNAS FreeNAS-9.10.2-U3 (e1497f269) I noticed myself getting spammed with messages like: May 4 13:21:42 138.128.161.188 2017-05-04T17:21:42.306Z serverblade1.robpatton.com vmkwarning: cpu0:67660)WARNING: ScsiDeviceIO: 6462: The Physical block…

RobPatton May 4, 2017

Life Stuff Tech

Upgrading the Power Wheels Jeep

Charles has a Power Wheels Jeep that is about 2.5 years old. It doesn't get used much by just him, but when we have company or when the neighborhood kids…

RobPatton July 20, 2015

House Stuff Tech

The giant camera post in the yard

For those that haven't seen it in person, here is a rough version of my latest project. Normally you want your cameras looking away from the house, but during the…

RobPatton October 5, 2013

Tech

Moved all my servers to ESXi

Finally made the jump this weekend! I've spent the past 3 or 4 months experimenting with VMWare's ESXi. For those that don't know, ESXi is a "bare metal hypervisor" which…

RobPatton October 15, 2012

Tech