Dale wrote: > > I ordered the card but I'm going to test the built in network shortly. > All I have to do is unplug cable from current card and plug into built > in port. Once I start that network, good to go. If it works, great. > I'll have the card as a back up. If it doesn't, card it is. > > BTW, I found a good deal on a 8TB hard drive and bought it. The store > had Unix in the name so obviously I had to buy from there. ROFL So, > network card and hard drive on the way. > > Thanks to all for the info. When I test the built in, I'll post back > how well it's working. Just for confirmation. :-D > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
I got the card in the other day but waited until the hard drive came in to install them both. I got them both in and started my process. The network card installed fairly easy. I had to rebuild the kernel with the drivers but it wasn't to bad. The new network card works fine but I have no way to really test its speed or anything. The internet folks say the fast internet should be here next spring or so but they been ahead of schedule so far. Still, my network should be ready and I can see if it goes beyond 100MB/sec at least. Still not sure what package I'll get. The small one is 200Mb, medium is 500Mb, large is 1Gb. Pretty sure the b's are lower case but may be wrong. It scales down a lot. I ran the self test on the hard drive overnight. It took several hours to complete on a 8TB drive. Once it passed, I partitioned it, did the LVM thing and tried to resize the file system. That was when puke got on my keyboard. It was to big and I had to convert from 32 bit to 64 bit. Once I found that out and how to do it, things worked much better. As of now, this is what things look like. root@fireball / # pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda7 OS lvm2 a-- <124.46g <25.46g /dev/sdb1 Home2 lvm2 a-- <5.46t 0 /dev/sdc1 Home2 lvm2 a-- <7.28t 0 /dev/sdd1 Home2 lvm2 a-- <7.28t 0 /dev/sde1 backup lvm2 a-- 698.63g 0 root@fireball / # vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree Home2 3 1 0 wz--n- 20.01t 0 OS 1 3 0 wz--n- <124.46g <25.46g backup 1 1 0 wz--n- 698.63g 0 root@fireball / # df -h | grep home /dev/mapper/Home2-Home2 20T 8.3T 12T 43% /home root@fireball / # Only bad news, I'm out of SATA ports. I really need to pick up a SATA PCI* card that has 6 or 8 ports on it and is really speedy. That's on my to do list for later on. Hopefully that will last a while. Next thing is re-figuring my external backup setup. That 8TB external drive I back up to is getting a little full. I'll have to split it up or something. Thanks to all for the ideas and help. Dale :-) :-)
