> By the way, one of the PCIe slots has an angle > adapter so I can attach a graphical adapter to this > one. Or since you mentioned 'workstation', I could > actually build the whole motherboard in a workstation > frame so I would get rid of the excessive vacuum > cleaner sound. > In the end I paid this server 400 euro which is > fairly price I think. >
This is an Extended ATX board so you need a chassie for EATX boards. > I first installed Solaris 10, but this was hanging > all the time (upon init 5-6) when updating. > So I installed OpenSolaris and for so far it runs > fairly well. During installation setup it just took > extremely long before it could find the four hard > disks > Proably , We never tried S10. > Just two questions: > When adding two identical graphical adapters is there > anything you need to take into account? > I' m just wondering since you have two identical > cards on the same bus. However one is closer to the > CPU(s) than the other. > You need the SLI Bridge connectors . two Cables that are connected betweenthe Graphics cards. These connectors are usually shipped with the moterboard and are not included with the graphic cards. > This S2892 motherboard has RAID, did you also manage > to configure this? > I had to disable the RAID to make the disks visible. Yeah, run ZFS instead, SOlaris is sadly missing the drivers for Pc-windows RAID solutions. //Lars This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
