Draakwired » Hardware

Some output…

Drakonen — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:34:14 +0000

drakonen@Gamont ~ $ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md/1             1.1T   56G  989G   6% /

drakonen@Gamont ~ $ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md1 : active raid5 sdd2[3] sdc2[0] sdb2[1] sda2[2]
1171837056 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]

md0 : active raid1 sdd1[3] sdc1[0] sdb1[1] sda1[2]
96256 blocks [4/4] [UUUU]

software Raid5 Storage

Drakonen — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:39:48 +0000

I finally got myself a decent file server setup. 4 disks using software raid5. I took an old (but still pretty powerful) machine I had lying around and added 4 new disks (samsung 400GB) and a sata controller (Promise TX4). Of course I went for a Gentoo installation, as I know that distribution the best, and more importantly, I like it. There is more then enough usable documentation on the software raid part. Now I’m not really a sysadmin so this took me about 2 days to set up.

I partitioned the disk in 2 parts:

Raid 1 100MB for /boot
Raid 5 for the rest /

First I tried with LVM2 but that seemed to fail miserably at boot time, so I dropped that part and just made it a normal ext3 partition. The array seems to be working fine now (no errors as of yet) and it does not require any noticeable cpu power. I am amazed. In my humble opinion there seems to be no need at all to use a hardware controller if you’re just using Linux, besides the fact that a hardware solution provides multi-booting and easy setup. Linux software raid is far more flexible then hardware as it seems to accept any block device (maybe even an iPod?).

Today I disconnected one drive, to see if it still worked. The complete system booted perfectly without the fourth drive. After the reboot with the fourth drive reconnected again, it needed some rebuilding. A long rebuild of almost 6 hours.

New PC, alive and Kicking

Drakonen — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:17:39 +0000

3 weeks ago I ordered my new pc. I assembled it a week later (got the components the same week!) and now it i alive and kicking, and damn fast too! compiling gentoo from a base3 install to a fully functional gnome environment only took 3 hours to compile! That’s damn fast!

Quake 4 runs quite well too in highest detail, I don’t have anything to complain about atleast. (yes I am a gamer). So far it runs very stable. (ofcourse by my excellent choice of components). And did not expirience any crashes at all. and again.. photo’s will be available soon. I just don’t know when soon will be…

HCC

Drakonen — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:16:04 +0000

I went to the HCC Dagen, together with my friend dodo. We met a friend there with her boyfriend who were also strolling overthere. I bought a new motherboard and a new case (foto’s will be available soon).
This Asus A8n5x isn’t the one I wanted, but it is close enough, even saved me a few euro’s.

I orderd the rest of my new game rig online:
MSI GeForce NX7800GT 256Mb, 2xDVI, ViVo, PCI-E
Kingston Dual-Channel 2Gb Kit, 2x1Gb, PC3200
Athlon64 X2 4200+ 939 box Manchester (6522)

pretty hardcore hardware I orderd. This will keep me running for a few more years, atleast until something better comes along.

I’m going to do the painfull thing now, pay for it…

edit: Dodo has uploaded a picture from HCC

New hardware

Drakonen — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:11:02 +0000

New hardware arrived on the place of my intership. I conquered a TFT monitor and plan to use it for a dual monitor set up. i’ve done this before with nvidia, but now i’ll have to do it with ati.

Also some people left, and a tablet (like a mouse.. sorta) was not being used, so i took it! after adding a kernel module it worked just fine without any extra configuration. I like this tablet and i do plan on using it more. It’s a different kind of rsi i’m getting now… so I just have to switch between mouse and tablet. I am going to like this.

Connecting p900 to pc using bluetooth

Drakonen — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:11:01 +0000

Connecting my p900 to the internet via my linux pc using bluetooth seems to be a big hassle. That’s one thing that sony ericsson did well with their windows drivers. it’s just a matter of installing the riht driver, connecting the usb station, put the phone on and start opera. You can just browse without much problems.

Anyway, i found some links that may help here.

A great page about the p900 and linux, sometimes incomplete, but always helpfull:
http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/pdzrho.html

Connecting the p900 to the internet using linux:
http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/261986-1.html

One note: You do not need the java browser, opera will do. The standard browser will not work.

New Darkwired server

Drakonen — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:21:01 +0000

Just some photo’s of the new darkwired server

Front shot, it’s the 1u (small) version.

Close up

The back with 2 gigabit ethernet ports

The old membrane in the rack. On the top.

It’s running nicely, it’s been up for 17 days now without any problems.