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[EBrown]

Here's some pics of one of the 2850's my work ordered for me. (Some are terribly blurry.)

The first one is the fans in it. (6 of them PLUS the two in the PSU's.)
The second is the RAM. (If I recall right it's 2Gig.)
The third is what I think is the North-Bridge. (It has it's own RAM, two SCSI connectors, PCIe x16, PCIe x8 and PCIe x4)
The fourth is where the North-Bridge Assembly plugs in. (There's like three connectors for it.)
The fifth is both PSU's. (700W each.)
The sixth is the RAID key. (I don't quite know what it does.)
The seventh is the DVD/Floppy drives. (Both are Laptop style.)
The eighth is all four hard drives. (146GB/each.)
The ninth is the specification sticker for the HDD. (10K Cheetah.)

I will install an OS on it probably tomorrow, and take some BIOS and OS pics of it.

Thanks,
EBrown

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[EBrown]

Here's some more pictures. (Haven't yet installed any OS on it, was just checking the HDD configuration.)

I need to learn how to control that Raid Controller, I would like a RAID 5 or RAID 1 setup. (Lol)

Thanks,
EBrown

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[mudmanc4]

You can do a lot with that system !

By now I'm thinking you have figured out how to configure the container and set your raid level. Yes ?

[EBrown]

Hell no I haven't. I will be looking into it more tonight or tomorrow though. (Any advice is awesome. )

Thanks,
EBrown

[CA3LE]

cool.. looks like fun.

[EBrown]

CA3LE, on 13 January 2012 - 06:49 PM, said:

cool.. looks like fun.

They are a blast. (Haven't even gotten an OS installed yet and I am enjoying them.)

Thanks,
EBrown

[RTB]

Interesting hardware. The third pic can't be the northbridge, that's always on the motherboard itself. It could be something for hardware raid, and/or extra pci-e lanes.

[mudmanc4]

On boot press  F10

You'll see the procs initialize , then a few other hardware devices

You'll see the raid controller starting to initialize press " alt + a " and the container utility will start. Once the following screen appears you can continue.



In this case there two physical drives in the container, so it is raid 1 , or a stripe.





How many HDD's installed will depend on what option you will have. First you'll need to initialize the drives or they wont be detected or available for container configuration. Once the initialization ( which can take quite some time ) then you will see the drives you can move into the container field. Those are the basics to get it going, you can do a lot more depending on what drives and configuration your looking for. As well as control your scsi controller from the utility.

[EBrown]

mudmanc4, on 14 January 2012 - 11:09 AM, said:

On boot press  F10

You'll see the procs initialize , then a few other hardware devices

You'll see the raid controller starting to initialize press " alt + a " and the container utility will start. Once the following screen appears you can continue.
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In this case there two physical drives in the container, so it is raid 1 , or a stripe.

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How many HDD's installed will depend on what option you will have. First you'll need to initialize the drives or they wont be detected or available for container configuration. Once the initialization ( which can take quite some time ) then you will see the drives you can move into the container field. Those are the basics to get it going, you can do a lot more depending on what drives and configuration your looking for. As well as control your scsi controller from the utility.

Ah, cool. I'll play with it later today then.

I have to find an area with enough space to make this all work. Lol

Thanks,
EBrown

[mudmanc4]

EBrown, on 14 January 2012 - 11:38 AM, said:

Ah, cool. I'll play with it later today then.

I have to find an area with enough space to make this all work. Lol

Thanks,
EBrown

I should mention once you get your OS installed, and by previous images, you'll be running linux , hopefully centos. You can check your disks by running

fdisk -l | grep '^Disk'

Make sure your running as root or sbin commands will not run.

[EBrown]

mudmanc4, on 14 January 2012 - 01:20 PM, said:

I should mention once you get your OS installed, and by previous images, you'll be running linux , hopefully centos. You can check your disks by running

fdisk -l | grep '^Disk'

Make sure your running as root or sbin commands will not run.

I actually won't be running Linux. (Sadface.) I need to run a Windows OS for the particular application I plan to use the server for. (I just didn't have any Windows Disks burnt at the moment.)

Thanks,
EBrown

[mudmanc4]

Yea sorry to hear that. None the less, gotta do what you gotta do.