Tonight I managed to: install a DVD-RW drive install 1x 80GB SATA drive connect all the chassis cables to the motherboard install the network card install FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE start the upgrade process to FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE install a few ports: bash, joe, sudo The photos from tonight. Here is the output from /var/run/dmesg.boot Copyright (c) 1992-2009 […]
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Tonight I put together some of the system. The motherboard, CPU, RAM, and PSU have been installed. The system POSTs, but nothing else. Next step: add a couple of HDD and then install FreeBSD 8. Photos here: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/album.php?aid=13150&id=100000289239443
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UPS just delivered the box with the 2xSATA drives for the OS, the RAM, and the upgraded PSU. I have everything to start assembly. The next question is: when?
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These are the shipments I’m expecting this week: Tuesday – RAM and two HDD to be returned Wednesday – the case Thursday – two SATA drives for the, RAM, and new PSU
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This is what will be ordered on Monday: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD $40 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb $36 Patriot Signature 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) $130 ENERMAX INFINITI EIN720AWT 720W PSU $150 I changed
It seems I cannot use registered ECC RAM in ASUS M4A79T Deluxe m/b. So I’m going with Patriot Signature 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) for $130 instead.
The parts I ordered last week arrived on Friday. Unfortunately I forgot to order the RAM. It turns out the RAM I had selected was the wrong RAM; it was DDR2. The m/b takes DDR3. But I didn’t find that out until after I ordered it on Saturday, along with two small SATA drives for
Tonight I purchased the following items: ENERMAX ECO80+ EES620AWT 620W for $120 Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) ASUS M4A79T Deluxe m/b for $180 AMD Phenom II X4 945 CPU $150 2x SYBA SY-PEX40008 PCI Express SATA II 4 port at $60 each for $120 Kingston ValueRAM 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2
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HAST has just been added to FreeBSD: HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines connected over the TCP/IP network. Those two machines together will be called a cluster and each machine is one cluster node. HAST works in Primary-Secondary (Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the cluster nodes
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