Back in Feburary, I ordered a 720W PSU for $150. There was a $60 rebate with it. When the PSU arrived, I promptly filled out the form and put it in an envelope for mailing. Except, I didn’t mail it. I found that envelope a few weeks ago. What the hell. I mailed it. It […]
After running the 3Ware diagnostic script, the status of the array went to OK. A short time later, it reverted to this $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/tw_cli info c0 u0 Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Port Stripe Size(GB) ———————————————————————— u0 RAID-0 OK – – – 64K 195.548 u0-0 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN – – p0 – 104.314 u0/v0 Volume
The smartmon bug I mentioned a few days ago has a patch. It was submitted 24 Jan 2010 but was closed after the maintainer said he would release a new distfile soon. It hasn’t arrived. I sent him and email tonight as a follow up the PR. In the meantime, I’ve applied the patch to
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NewEgg has received and processed my returned purchases. I’m impressed. I mailed them on Thursday (I think) and here it is, Wednesday. I should expect to see the refunds on my credit card within 2-3 days.
I do like CoolDrives.com. I was shown this quick swap drive tray and started hunting around. This spare parts page is interesting and reminds me that I want to buy different cables for the file server. Also neat are these hard drive cases for when your HDD is not in use.
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I thought I’d run some simple tests, based on a tuning thread I found: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=./file1 bs=1m count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 14.283206 secs (75175127 bytes/sec) And while the above was running: # zpool iostat 5 capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ———-
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Tonight’s goals: Install a second HDD get gmirror running install the remaining 5x2TB HDD add the two RAID cards After adding in the second HDD for the OS, dmesg shows this: ad4: 76319MB <seagate ST380815AS 4.AAB> at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s acd0: DVDR <tsstcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C/SB01> at ata3-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s ad8: 152587MB <wdc WD1600AAJS-75M0A0
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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?
All shipments delivered! Read More »