Closed ohnoesIaccidentallyAPSU closed 2 years ago
It is very unlikely that hpsahba or kernel patches caused this.
Spinning disks drain a lot of current during spindle spin up. Most probably, your PSU failed because of a combination of 1) PSU wear out and 2) current spike during disk startup.
Yes, I doubt it was caused directly by the program. Rather, a combination of factors. Merely a PSA... Check that your PSU is robust before using this 🤔 especially if you are using lots of drives
Running gentoo on 1.10 kernel my PSU exploded on a Proliant DL380 G7 while mounting the hpsahba drives during the initramfs! Thankfully, nothing was harmed and that was a new server, with no data on it. All is well
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