Monthly Archives: April 2004

File server’s backup with Gigabit and MegaRAID

4/3/2004 – 3:29 am

Finally. As I chronicled in my hardware review of the LSI MegaRAID, I spent the balance of the evening / morning trying to get into the controller’s BIOS. No amount of BIOS or firmware flashing for the mainboard or controller respectively seemed to help. Finally, I found a DOS utility that would let me interface [...]

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Doing the right thing hurts

4/2/2004 – 1:26 am

I really wanted that SCA hotswap bay in my workstation. Too much. I had to beat the case silly to get it installed. So its all good, eh? Well, it dawned on me this evening that I don’t even need RAID 1 on my workstation. Not for the OS installation, anyway. I proceded to rip [...]

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AMI (now LSI) MegaRAID Express 466 Ultra 2

4/1/2004 – 1:30 pm

I obtained an AMI MegaRAID card today. It’s quite slick. Since it’s so hard to find specifications about the card online, I thought I’d publish the information I have found. My particular card is an AMI MegaRAID Express 200, series 466. Dell sold these cards with their PowerEdge 2400 series servers back in 2001 as [...]

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initrds and panics oh my

4/1/2004 – 1:28 am

After recompiling my kernel with modular support for both ATA and SCSI, I finally realized I needed to enable initial ramdisk support in my custom kernel. You’d think after writing a whole guide on that I would’ve figured it out. It seems I have gotten spoiled using Debian stock kernels. Once I discovered the error [...]

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