[geeks] FYI: Low-cost x86 1U server barebones on eBay

[John Francini]

I suppose that the alternative might be to stick a PCI IDE card in 
the unit and connect the CD/DVD into that.

It doesn't appear as though there's a permanent spot for a cd/dvd in 
that system, though, which is unfortunate.

However, there is USB 2.0 on the unit, so, BIOS-willing, an external 
USB CD/DVD could be used.

j


At 17:19 -0500 9/13/07, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>  >From: John Francini <francini at mac.com>
>>Date: 2007/09/13 Thu AM 09:13:15 CDT
>>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>>Subject: Re: [geeks] FYI: Low-cost x86 1U server barebones on eBay
>
>>Okay, I've gone and bought one. Seemed like a good deal.  Pretty blue 
>>front panel, too.
>
>They are pretty nice, but the RAID is a bit if a cludge to work with (if you
>need to install from a CD/DVD drive) because you can either use conventional
>IDE (Ultra 100) OR RAID IDE (Ultra 133) connectors, but not both, and you
>can't hang a DVD drive off the RAID controller...
>
>You would install your HD and DVD on the Primary IDE connector, install,
>remove the DVD drive, move the HD to the RAID controller, then create an
>array *adding* the second drive (either RAID 0 or RAID 1)...
>
>Or you can netboot (PXE).
>
>I installed locally, and just left the drives on the conventional controller
>(for now, I may move them over later on).
>
>I really like that the rack rail hardware is included ;^)
>
>>Now, could anyone tell me of a decent and inexpensive co-location 
>>facility in greater Boston-towards-Nashua?
>
>Sorry, no.
>
>Lionel
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