Might be a SAS driver issue. Have you checked if the drives show up on a live distro, something more current, like let’s say Void or anything that has a 6.x kernel?

I’ve had issues like this with older Marvel SCSI controllers, some of them don’t have open source drivers for Linux, and the ones provided by the manufacturer (if there are any) are so old that you’d have to be runnig kernel 2.x in order for them to work. I just gave up in the end, disabled the SCSI controller in BIOS and just used the rigs on IDE/SATA.

I R baboon.

Mooom, the normies are bulling me again.

I think Apollo was for Android as well.

Gangsta C++, for the ammo endowed.

Exactly. Just move on.

That won’t make it easier to find when troubleshooting for a problem online. And your profile is tied to conversations in threads, simply archiving your posts is just a blob of useless data with no context.

Me as well. One of the reasons why I will never do this.

You know how I joined reddit? None of the reasons everyone else might have, it just looked like a cool place. No one uses it where I live, except a few hundred people.

That being said, this was after years and years of me leeching off of comments on reddit. So, I thought I’d give the community something back… it’s only fair. I come from the forum scene, that’s how forums work. And let’s be honest, no matter how much we started hating a place, we never did this back in the day. Why? The info shared in those posts is probably more valuable than whatever we’re trying to achieve by doing this.

Of course, it’s your choice, your account. I’m just saying that I think it’s selfish and mean and that I would never do it. The free flow of info is what keeps the net going. You start tempering with that and you’re just fueling more users into mass media (if everyone did this, users can’t find any info about anything they’re troubleshooting and just return to doomscrolling on FB/IG/Twitter).

I never got paid for anything either, but neither did everyone else that helped me over the years.

Of course, the choice is yours, but it’s not OK IMO.

Reasons don’t fix the issue - the answer is mising.

(“CAT” from “Caterpillar” - yeah, they make phones)

Not really, they’re just rebranded Chinese no name phones.

Still, yes, they are good.

Me as well. I’ve been in situations where complete strangers online have answered and helped me so many times regarding problems I’ve had, so I’ve tried to return the favor through reddit and other platforms. I have no intention of doing this, this is just… mean IMO. You open the link in hope of finding an answer and you run into… this 😒.

RustDesk

That being said, it’s developed by Chinese and communication with them is tough. Some security issues still haven’t been patched (no one actually knows why, they either don’t reply why or reply in Chinese with a cryptic message like “why ask this” or something weird like that). They’re also notoriusly against anyone speaking anything against them (I once commented on their subreddit that the devs are mostly Chinese, so communication is kinda difficult, after someone asked why they don’t reply or give scarce replies regarding issues and PRs on their GH).

Still, it’s free and open source, so you can give it a spin if you’d like. The servers that come by default are super slow, the idea is to make your own (which kinda beats the point of actually having some sort of a replacement for TeamViewer or AnyDesk… if I wanted to set up my own server, there are other open source alternatives), which drew me away from it from the start.

I still use AnyDesk with version 7.0.14 for Windows and version 6.0.1 for Linux. The older Windows versions because there is no red bar over the window that says “free version” or whatever and the older version for Linux because it just works better than the latest one (6.2.x), I have no idea why.

Hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣, I laughed way more than I should 🤣🤣🤣.

Older models start, no prob there. Newer ones, that don’t have detachable batteries, yes, they can be a problem (sometimes, depends on make and model… usually brands like Dell or Lenovo can make a fuss over it). Even in those cases, there are BIOS mods that remove this limitation.

Of course, that general advice is good and should be followed. But some batteries will die even if you follow these advices. There were some laptops back in the day that had a recharge cycle counter inside the charge/discharge controller in the battery. They would just die, out of the blue, after, let’s say, 1000 charges. People that were used to having their laptops plugged in all the time, regardless if they needed that or not, spent the recharge cycles a lot faster than people that just plugged in the laptop whenever it was low on battery. This happened because the charging circuit sometimes falsely reports the battery as a little drained (99%), so it will recharge it just a tad. Still, this “just a tad” added 1 recharge cycle to the count. Over the course of a day, this may happen, 10, 15 times, which ammounts to 10, 15 charges accourding to the counter. So, their batteries basically went dead right after their warranty expired. There are ways to reset the counter or completely jump that piece of code, but it’s just not worth it. Too much RCE work for very little gain.

It’s a shame though… those batteries were still OK. It was just a shitty move from the manufacturers to try and squeze more money from their clients for batteries.

Doesn’t really matter, those chargers can take in from about 90V to about 250, 260V. Forget what the sticker says about 110~230, they’re designed for unstable voltage operation (not actually designed for that, but they don’t wanna make different ones for EU and UK/US voltages coz it costs more, plus people bitch about not being able to use them abroad, so they just make the same ones and ship with different plugs). Trust me, they can handle voltage swings pretty darn good. They’re SMPS power supplies, they’re designed to output the same voltage in a very wide range of input voltages.

If you really think that a battery will help (it might help… in some cases… depending on how it’s built), just leave the battery on even if it’s dead. It might work as voltage dumper in some cases, but as I said, it depends on the design.

You could run Void on it… and a few other niche distros, but Void is the most mainstream one that still supports x86. Plus, xbps-src holds almost everything else that is not present in the official repos, so, you could just compile from source using the template.

Forget about the battery, it’s not worth it. Use it till it dies completely, then remove it and use it on the charger.