took heed to all the talk about using real servers so...... Today's high tech scrounging was interesting. have an HP server case with a GA-586dx dual cpu( but only have one cpu for it< any extra 233 intel mmx chips surplus out there?>) motherboard in it and a slug of scsi drives all in these neat little drawers.
Now... time to load stuff... tried red hat 7.2 and got continuous apic error on cpu0 errors streaming on the screen... tried goggle.. totally confused but seems to be the 2.4 kernel related? is SME on an earlier kernel? because........ when I loaded 5.5 worked well! also told it to take 2 of the drives and do the raid..... decided to test the raid by pulling one of the drives and letting it run on one and write some stuff... then rebooted... the stuff went by on the screen so fast I could not read all of it but it appears it knew there was a problem... but something about not enough room to rebuild but running diminished ? now the problem is, and maybe this is something that needs to be addressed..... shouldn't there be something in the console when you check the status of the server that says... hey! you have a problem with your raid! and perhaps recommend a fix? ( this is by 6.0 recommend..) I believe these scsi drives are only one gig. thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc What will the dumpsters of America, the dark corners of kind hearted folk hold for our experimentation tomorrow with SME? stay tuned same time same listserv. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "ed sharpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Greg Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:17 AM Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Some wish-list ideas for version 6.0 > >From: "Greg Zartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > What would your explaination be to your boss?... Well, you see, I was > > playing around, experimenting really, with this old machine that we had. > > I figured if I could make it through the install routine, we'd be good to > > go. Everything seemed to be working OK so I transfered all of our > > project files to the server hard drive. I thought I was saving us > > money.... If there is reall a "network admin" here in this group that > > actually operates like this, please speak up... ;-) > > I do -- almost... I would have agreed with the 'server class' hardware > a few years ago, but today even the cheap stuff almost never breaks > and you can buy spares and replace it with something twice as > fast in a year for less than a real server and maintenance costs. Maybe > I've just learned to avoid bad hardware, but I wouldn't have any > qualms at all about tossing a new pair of drives into a 4 year old > desktop Dell Optiplex and shipping it to a remote office as their > server. If it is on a UPS it will run for many more years and if it > did break the replacement would be just as cheap (I've seen these > on the used market for $99). On the other hand, you have to be > prepared for software failures and human errors that lose data so > you can't avoid the need for backups - and as long as you have > them the tiny chance of increase in uptime you would get from a > dual power supply or hot spare in a raid array will only pay off > in a few situations. I have been thinking that it would be nice > to have a floppy-boot Linux version and a USB<->ethernet > adapter that could be used with any spare PC/laptop to use as > an instant replacement for a failed SME server's gateway function > but so far I haven't needed it and most of my remote offices have > someone who isn't afraid to open a case and swap cards around. > > > Les Mikesell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
