[rescue] WHEE! garbage machine is alive and kicking.

[Ryan Thoryk]

reminds me of when I took an old Pentium 66 machine (lol socket 4), emptied
the system out, and then threw in the most monsterous motherboard (a Dual
Pentium Pro 200 Supermicro P6DNF AT board, full-size), 4 hard drives (2 2gig
scsis for Debian Linux and the /usr partition, a 40 gig ide and a 30 gig ide
for the LVM stripe array), and other crazy things.  It's been my main server
for years.

> OK after various frustrations last night and a defective CD-ROM 
> and floppy disk (two floppies actually but one just needed 
> a tightening of the head screw) I am now the proud owner of 
> a big ball of NFS (TM)
> 
> This is the Gateway NS-8000 I found in the garbage on 42nd 
> street... after cleaning the filthy insides and finding a nice 
> NT4 with easy to guess password and doing some research for 
> the fun of it I did the following (original config follows 
> then current config)
> 
> Orig:
> Pentium II 233
> 128 MB ECC RAM
> Telepath X2 56K Modem
> 3com 3c905 10/100
> 4GB Seagate Barracuda
> Floppy
> SCSI CD-ROM Plextor PX32
> Conner TR4 tape
> Windows NT 4 + Small Business Server
> 
> Now:
> Dual Pentium II 333
> 128 MB ECC RAM
> 3com 3c905 10/100
> HP Netraid 3si with 32MB cache
> 3 x 18 GB Seagate Barracudas in the RAID cage (RAID 5) with 
> cardboard separators (tried to make my own sheet metal constructions 
> and it just wasn't working so I made a cardboard tube stuck 
> it on the bottom... pushed the first drive onto the connector... 
> pushed the next one on and placed two flat pieces of cardboard 
> in between it and the first drive to align them... repeat... 
> I was going to have 4 18's and I may do this, I haven't decided 
> yet (Bought 5 drives and wanted to use the 5th as a spare i.e. 
> use it somewhere else where the data was unimportant and pull 
> it if I had a failure, but 2 are DOA so I'm going to arrange 
> to exchange them with the seller; HDOUTLET)
> Floppy
> IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM FX-32 (a good drive and bootable unlike 
> the other one; though probably cause it was bad) Conner TR4 
> tape FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 with a custom kernel... machine's hostname 
> is chef... the kernel is LOVEGRAVY
> 
> Man this thing is fast... esp I/O.
> Andrew
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Ryan Thoryk
Unix and Network Specialist
Argonne National Laboratory
home - ryan at tliquest.net
work - rthoryk at anl.gov