[juneau-lug] Re: JLUG Server
- From: Chris Ruschmann <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:45:56 -0900
Holy crap this is a big box, does it have wheels? Cause the I will just
put it on the ground.
Also, prolly going to have to find a UPS for this big bad boy. Cause
there is a 2 second delay for when it switches over to generator.
We have UPS, but this will mostlikely over power them.
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 17:14 -0900, East Wind wrote:
> James Zuelow wrote:
> > The drives appear fine from the limited amount of testing I could do with=20
> > them. I am limited to looking at a rather limited RAID controller utility=
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> > from BIOS.
> I've got a couple new Mylex DAC1164 w/64MB BBU RAM modules.
> I'd be willing to donate to the cause if you'd like a little better
> hardware raid situation.
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> > The RAID controller was set up for two partitions - a RAID 5 wi=
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> > the existing drives, and a RAID 1 set up on the empty bays. I brought the=
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> > machine back up to 6 drives, and configured a single RAID 5 (about 85GB in=
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> > total).
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> > To boot a CD, I have to get to the BIOS. Right now it will boot from flopp=
> > y=20
> > or the drive array only.
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> > These old Compaq servers should have an SMS partition on the drives with to=
> > ols=20
> > to actually get to the BIOS, which was not there. (Probably the OS and=20
> > service partition was on the missing drives from the array.) Compaq has a=
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> > tool to set up floppy disks to install this stuff, but as usual it's not ju=
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> > a zip file or tarball but a Windows executable that uncompresses things and=
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> > writes them to disk. I do have two Windows machines available at home, bot=
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> > of which are Windows XP Service Pack 2 with all patches. Too bad, that. T=
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> > Compaq utility won't work on XP, even in compatibility mode, because of the=
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> > way it wants to create the floppies. So I need to find a Win9x or perhaps=
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> > Win2k box to create the floppies.
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> > =46rom there I can restore the SMS partition before putting an OS on it. (=
> > Yes,=20
> > I can get the floppy images for Debian Etch easily, but I'd prefer a fully=
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> > functional server with a working "F10" key before installing the OS.)
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> > Once I can boot from CD I'll run it through memtest86+, a thorough test of =
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> > RAID array, and put the base OS on it.
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