On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 23:19, Brent Hasty wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Liquid Cooled Terminal Server > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:06:31 -0700 > From: Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: List Cookers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Lets start with the specs: > > Msi K7D-Master-L Motherboard. > Onboard 10/100 nic (for WAN) > 2 1GHZ AMD Athlon MP processors > Copper shimmed > Cold Spike All copper water blocks (avaliable from my websight > www.hasty-solutions.com) > 3 Enermax Ultra Cool temperature controlled fans. > 7" x 12" transmission oil cooler > 1 qt coolant with water wetter > coolant pump (all coolant components are internaly plumbed and contained). > 512 MB DDR 266 CL 2 Samsung ram > Usb 2.0 > Usb 1.1 > External Usb 2.0 30G ibm backup hard drive. > Broadcom bcm5701 64 bit 66 mhz copper gigabit nic (for terminals usning > eepro100 nics) > Intel SRCU32 2 channel u160 64 bit 66 mhz raid controller w/ 256 MB pc-133 CL > 2 micron/crucial ram > 6+1 Raid 5 Seagate cheta 10k rpm u160 4 MB cashe SCSI Drives, in removable > sca drive trays. > DVD-rom > Sony CDRW 24X > Int zip 250 > 1.44 Floppy > Soundblaster Live > ATI Rage 128 Pro 32 MB > 21" ncd monitor > ATX Full Tower case with red racing stripes. > 350 Watt ATX Pentium 4/AMD approved powersupply. > > I will be trying over the next week to use MDK 9.0 rc2 to set up a small > office terminal server. I will keep all posted as to how it goes. > > A question: > Is there any hardware on my list that may not have the nessicary software > developed to use it with Linux and MDK 9.0? > > broadcom gigabit nick works without a hitch. > > If any one has made use of any of these components and has tips to share I > would greatly appriciate the tips. > > Do you think this is enough to handle being at least a half decent terminal > server? > > Only ran across one major hitch when loading rc2, it will not run in smp > mode. Seems to hang and reboot around the isapnp portion of init. This > motherboard has no isapnp how can I turn it off?
I solved this on my box by in BIOS chosing PNP Enabled OS, set to No Some have additional settings (redundancy actually) in the PCI section. Your millage may vary. James > > ------------------------------------------------------- >
