It's alive! All the components are good.
64 bits
8MB cache
4 cores
4GB RAM
3 hotswap SATA drives
2 NICs
... 1 badass server!
Interesting assembly tidbits...
... the BIOS setup wants to know what *altitude* the server is located
at so it can properly compute the cooling flow!
... Seagate SATA II drives have a jumper to limit throughput to the
1.5Gb/s rate of original SATA... for compatibility? That's fine, but
it's *on by default*. Since Sparky's controller does 3.0Gb/s SATA I
removed the jumper. I suppose one could argue that a single 7200RPM
drive would never exceed even the 1.5Gb/s level of throughput, but hey
if you got it, might as well flaunt it. (I'd be curious whether the
jumper also disabled NCQ and other SATA II features...)
I'm heading home for now, but on Monday I'll hit it with the latest
firmware update (which per the release notes fixes a number of issues
under Linux) and then run it through a good burn-in.
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Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com
Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting
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