Fileserver, part 2 – taping raid card
I have my server running now with the following hardware:
- Asus P7F-X motherboard
- Intel Xeon x3440 processor
- 4GB Kingston ECC DDR3
- 6 Western Digital 1,5TB drives, model nro WD15EARS
- 2 Samsung F3 500GB drives
- Dell SAS 5/i sata raid card
- Nexus Edge case
The first problem I ran into was no boot, if the raid card was installed. Solution was taping two pins from the pci-e connector. Now I have the system running and OpenSolaris build 132 installed. I still have to setup the shares and stress test the system.
Most importantly everything works out of the box with the build 132.
I haven’t been exposed to Unix much so setting everything up is bit of a chore. A lot of things zfs makes really simple, but there is still lot to learn. If I still care in couple of weeks I might write a guide, though there isn’t much of a need as Simon Breden already has a very good guide.
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