I used to despise mounting rails.
I’m beginning to reconsider that opinion after spending twenty minutes last night beating the hell out of a railless case last night so my two drive SCA hotswap internal bay would fit into the two 5.25″ bays it wanted. Still doesn’t quite fit right. Its noticeably crooked. [...]
Apparently for the longest time, the ECS K7S5A failed to work with quite a few mass storage controllers, like Adaptec’s SCSI products and AMI’s MegaRAID 200 Express.
The symptoms are painful and immediate. After installing one of these products in a K7S5A board, it hangs after the SCSI card completes its POST. My Adaptec [...]
Unofficial Debian packages of PostgreSQL with PostGIS support are now available from Fred McDavid.
If you want to stick to the official Debian packages for PostgreSQL, Bernhard Reiter explained the approach in December of 2001 on the PostGIS users mailing list. I used this procedure to successfully compile PostGIS 0.7.5 for PostgreSQL 7.3.4.
As the [...]
With my recent discovery of a patch allowing my inexpensive gigabit network adapters to function, it looks like its time to crack both servers and upgrade them accordingly.
For the file server:
Linksys EG1032 Gigabit adapter
SCSI SCA bay with 2 x 10K RPM SCSI
Perc2 SCSI RAID adapter
For the backup server:
D-Link DGE-500T Gigabit adapter
Generic 300W PSU (250W Enlight [...]
Both cards are based on the National Semiconductor’s 83820 chipset, which seems to be a popular low-end gigabit chipset. The card has had support under Linux since early 2.4, so you’d expect it to be as simple as compiling the driver, right? Wrong, apparently.
(Fortunately the situation was rectified at some point. With [...]
I tested it in the same pizza style system I was playing with my IO Magic card in. It works, although the 2940U2 BIOS is hidden. Using the magic Adaptec key sequence still gets me into the BIOS, though. I have it verifying the disk media of an LVD disk right now.
I’m [...]
It seems my Adaptec 2940U2 OEM is DoA. The card does not POST. If a LVD or SE drive is attached, the system does not POST. I had a similar issue with my 7450-4LP from a few weeks ago, which I have not yet gotten a refund for.
The IO Magic card I [...]
Murhahah… I knew I’d own you when I was massive sleep depraved. (Spaces trimmed from output because MT sucks at dealing with PRE tags and white space, apparently. Yeh…)
rebecca:/tmp# bash wshape.sh status
qdisc sfq 4: quantum 1514b
Sent 1820328 bytes 1833 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0)
backlog 5p
qdisc sfq 3: quantum 1514b
Sent 53746 [...]
Bellsouth is increasing the price of FastAccess DSL by $3, but not telling anyone. Since this is just a magic fee, it won’t show up in their advertised rates. Smells pretty dirty to me. Cox Communications wasn’t quite as bad, officially raising the advertised price of Cable Internet from $32.99 to $39.99 [...]
Looks like I am now the owner of an Adaptec 2940U2 and an IO Magic ATA 100 PCI IDE card. At some point in the future when I migrate to 3 x 200GB drives I’ll move my 4 x 120GB drives into the backup server. Since 7000 series 3Ware cards are so expensive, [...]