I don’t think you should be using it anymore if it’s getting hot enough to cook a pizza…
cooked perfectly !
You knew when you took the picture with the pizza that most of the comments would be about the pizza didn’t you?
Also, if you place it over a vent, does it double as a pizza keeper warmer?
Kinda, but I cooked the pizza, it was there when I wanted to post something about the server, so I couldn’t resist ahah
TO be a good Pizza keeper warmer, I’d definitely have to remove the 12 fans inside
Serving pizza and files. What a time to be alive.
mv pizza.01 /srv/mouth/
In Linux everything is a file!
Avoid hardware RAID (have a look at this). Use Linux MD or BTRFS or ZFS.
It’s a 2004 server, you can’t do anything else but HW RAID on this. also, it’s using UltraSCSI (and you should not use that in 2024 either ahah)
SCSI was creme de la creme ages ago! Is it not a matter of going in its BIOS, configure the hardware RAID (go for mirror only!?), endure the noise it probably makes, and install ? :)
Indeed! I have a lot of SCSI disks, PCI cards and a few cables too! (also, SCSI is fun to pronounce… SKEUZY) but on this server, the RAID card doesn’t have any option to create a RAID in its BIOS, from what I can tell it needs a special software and I can’t find good tutorials or documentation out there :(
You can find the 7.12.x support CD for that controller at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-serveraid-software-matrix. I’m pretty sure that server model did not support USB booting so you’ll need to burn that to a disc. This will be the disc to boot off of to create your array(s).
I forget if the support CD had the application you would install in Windows to manage things after installation or not, or if that’s only on the application CD. Either way you’ll find several downloads for various OS drivers and the applications from that matrix.
Thanks for the link! I’ll definitely need to try this… I have a few CDs laying around, I’ll burn one!
Why is that? Does the motherboard effectively just not have enough inputs for all the disks, so that’s why you need dedicated hardware that handles some kind of raid configuration, and in the end the motherboard just sees it all as one drive? I never really understood what SCSI was for. How do the drives connect, SATA/PATA/something else?
SCSI is its own thing, to fix some issues with IDE iirc. The drive backplane is directly attached to the motherboard, well, more specifically to the RAID Card on the Motherboard, then the RAID card give the OS/Motherboard access to the configured RAID disk that you have created, but not to the disks themselves.
I did not know that
Well, you could make each disk its own RAID 0 array. There would probably be performance overhead compared to just using the hardware RAID though.
It really ties the room together
For a non-pizza comment: I’ve been out of the hardware game for awhile, but the last time I had to set one of these up for RAID, the paper manual (which can probably be found digitally) was helpful. I also vaguely recall RAID 5 either having issues or being unavailable.
It’s slowly coming back to me… There was a floppy disk that you needed to launch the raid config? Also the platform ran pretty well with debian 4.0 if you’re debating what to run on it.
It’s pretty straightforward. RAID controller has it’s own bios. Setup what you want. Done.
I like how you have a pizza on the top. Probably not a great place for it long term.
Just keeping lunch warm.
What’s on the pizza?
Air, mostly!
(but also merguez and pepper)
merguez
I see you are a person of culture.
Did you use it to cook the pizza?
pizza for scale :)
wats on the pzaa
I have a (crappy) poweredge and know for a fact that that’s the wrong end to put the pizza on any rack server.
Only heat would be from the drive backplain, all the boiling hot CPUs, RAM, and expansion cards are further back.
Who said it was too keep it warm ? Maybe it’s too cool it off before eating it :)
Also, drives can get pretty hot
nice pizza
Does it cook pizza?
Specs?
Intel Xeon 3.2GHz (yes that’s the whole model number), 4 gigs of DDR2 RAM and 3x 73GB Ultra SCSI disks!
