@mirai needs your help! She is trying to get a HP ProLiant 360e Gen8 to recognise two 600GB HDDs plugged in through the RAID controller with RAID0 enabled. Both drives show up in the setup, but are not shown in a Live boot environment.
I suggested that the driver for the RAID controller is missing in the Live OS, but haven't found a driver for it either (yet)/HP locks them behind a paywall :neocat_angry:
@mirai@askfedi@askfedi_de okay the main problem that the disks are not recognised is solved, from afaik only the parttable and a partition are missing - should hopefully be an easy fix
After the Mike Lynch debacle when the jury decided that the US judicial system should not be used to cover the arses of incompetent HP execs we have this…
I suspect that HP is a sell for any investor paying attention.
@Thebratdragon Well for us, a reliable black and white printer suffices for most printing and when high quality colour is needed the Epson copier/scanner/printer is great - if a wee bit slower.
AI Laptop REACTIONS! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45Q
Checking out all the announcements today from Dell, HP, Microsoft, Samsung, Acer, Asus, and Lenovo! I did a live recording of my reactions.
Windows on ARM is getting REALLY exciting! Here are some things to look out for while shopping a new "AI" laptop!
@SomeGadgetGuy No worries, I understand your point. Arm is not a good idea for the future. They are and they were limited from the very beginning, even back then at the designing table. As same thing as with the x86 or x86_64 architecture is. At one point in time they will reach those borders and it will be end of story. But the completely different thing is with the RISC-V. This one is not limited in any way. I think this architecture should be developed very much. That's the future for us all.
@MartinBe
Yeah but ARM isn't really "limited" anymore. Software support has improved radically, and there is no approaching that performance per watt with RISC. See also, every phone and MacBook currently being sold.
My points before, of course we want RISC and an open architecture some day, but we also need to make it through the day with a computer today.
When I can buy a RISC machine that can accomplish the tasks I need to accomplish, I'll happily do so. There is no RISC ecosystem that approaches the robust ecosystem of ARM. Along the way, I can't keep recommending to consumers "just keep waiting for a machine that won't exist for YEARS now, until massive corporations decide to make one". That's not how a consumer tech cycle works.
So as a tech reviewer, I'm in a position where I need to make recommendations for the needs people have now, while also educating on the kind of purchasing that might help enable the resources we need in the future.
(the head makes the total screw length 1mm longer than the stock screws, but the threaded portion is still 4mm in length; this does not affect fitment of the rubber feet whatsoever)
This is interesting: I've installed FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE on that laptop. However, every time I try to check the system's status with 'top', it crashes. I suspected this was due to the absence of a battery, so I tested this theory with the command sysctl hw.acpi.battery and - boom - experienced the same crash.
It seems that FreeBSD does not function well on a laptop without a battery.
Can anyone suggest a workaround or solution? I'd like to avoid re-inserting the 9-years-old worn-out battery.
Personally, I’m never ever buying another #HP product. The company seeks to control its customers, including printer and PC buyers, in unacceptable ways imo. Any tech company that can remotely brick its products is not trustworthy by any measure. https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/11/hp_inc_ink_filing/
Trying to update firmware on an HP Spectre X360 laptop from linux, but I can't extract a .bin file from the downloadable .exe file. Has something changed in this space? The .exe file extracts only another .exe file! #linux#HP
Ok turns out you can create a usb to boot from, but this has to be done from INSIDE WINDOWS and ON AN HP COMPUTER! Not really helpful! #hp#linux#firmware