Recent content by trmentry

LOL. Thanks for the advice Mage. Here's hoping for a Dremel from Santa. :P

I'm currently looking for 3 3x5 sata drive cages. I'm thinking of going with the http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817995001 brand one. However, none of the 3x5 cages I've been looking at have slots for cases with drive rails in them. The iStarUSA...

I used to have 2 of these for 8 ide drives. http://www.cooldrives.com/qulcdfi80inc.html had them on a FW 800 card and worked well in Windows. Was able to have Windows Raid them up. Not so sure that can be done with USB. Never tried. I liked Firewire better than USB for the faster...

I've been partial to taking my drives out to the range and shooting them with my M1A at 100 yards. 3 shots will pretty much obliterate the thing. :)

off hand do you know if these work in gentoo and ubuntu. i'm still googling but thought i would post to see.

Those are iffy if they work under linux.

Ok... is it possible to use that card as just a controller... disable all the raid functions?

I have 2 pci slots (microatx) and 16 drives. I'm currently using 2 Supermicro sat2-mv8 but have a pci-e slot and figure why not. :P

Does such a beast exist? I'm looking for one with 8 sata ports but no raid functionality. Just a controller like the Supermicro SAT2-MV8. And works under Linux.

Interesting. I wasn't aware of that limitation. Thank you. I tend to not shrink my volumes, but lately I've been doing that to get more space for the volume that has only 120g free out of 1.5T *cough* I'm hoping to build the new machine and not have to worry about shrinking but only...

I did this just recently on a machine. I booted up with an Ubuntu LiveCD but I'm sure any LiveCD will do. I then just pulled up a terminal on it and did a: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb where sda is my original drive and sdb is the new drive. walked away for a bit and came back...

I'm torn as to doing this on live array. I tend to be a bad luck magnet for shit going completely south on me when I attempt stuff like this. So I'm thinking of bring up the new drives in a new machine (ordered the mobo/cpu/memory) and then copy the data over with rsync or some such. Partly...

I have plenty of UPS power for the server. SmartUPS 2000. And I just swapped the batteries out a few months ago for new ones. Had a power outage while back and stayed up for over 1.5 hours. The only reason I shut everything down at that point was the annoying beeping from the UPS was getting...

I'm looking for opinions on using XFS or ReiserFS for large raid arrays. My current setup is 8x400 using LVM2 to partition it and ReiserFS. But I was going to use The Hunters technique to go to 8x750 and was wondering if it would be better to bring up the 8x750 as new array and make it XFS...

Ok, I decided to try this out on a vm. I installed Ubuntu 7.10 into a vmware server and went to town. Following The Hunter's instructions, I created my loops. I went 1 step further and then put md0 into a lvm2 and carved it up and made a file to test with 'data'. This is what I came...