I used to despise mounting rails.
03.31.04
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.
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Unofficial Debian packages of PostgreSQL with PostGIS support are now available from Fred McDavid.
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03.30.04
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.
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.
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03.28.04
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.
03.27.04
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.
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…)
03.24.04
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 over the course of a year, and hence why I have Bellsouth ADSL in the first place.
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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, and 6000 series RAID 5 is so slow, I’ve decided I’ll use Linux software RAID and a few inexpensive ATA PCI cards. Should be cheaper and faster than a 6800 and about one tenth the price of a nice 7500-8.
03.22.04
Update, January 29th, 2006. If you are using a kernel newer than 2.6.12, don’t use initrd-tools. It’s unmaintained and may not work. What follows may be useful for systems still using initrd-tools. For newer systems, you might want to read about other options, such as initramfs-tools or Yaird.
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I need to quick guide my overview of Debian’s mkinitrd scripts that I wrote a while back. I need to update my MLDonkey tutorial, too. It seems it’s in Debian now. I finally created my own set of init scripts for it. I only noticed the package when someone else pointed out that an official Debian package now exists.
03.20.04
Finally, forward momentum. (And with that at 4am a cat just made the most horrific noise outside, three times now. It sounds like its being eaten alive.)
03.19.04
Of late I’ve been bidding on lots of 1000Mbps cards on Ebay. It seems I am now the owner of a Linksys 1000Mbps card which I paid far too much for. I just need one more and I can crossover them, one in the backup server and one in the file server. With so many RAID configuration changes, I can never backup and restore files fast enough for my tastes.