Re: CM-Stacker plus... (was Re: getting a new Debian box)
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On 05/22/07 08:11, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:43:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/20/07 15:02, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
>> According to a previous post, you only have one HDD?
>
> After discussions with Lenart Sorrensen on amd64, I decided to get a
> second drive and raid1 the system. I filled up the front with 4-in-3 to
> get the fans.
>
>> Are there 5.25->3.5 converter rails, or only the 4-in-3 modules?
>> Seems to me that having 5.25->3.5 converter rails would allow more
>> air-flow above and below the drives.
>>
>
> If I just went with rails, I don't get fans blowing in the front. The
> 4-in-3 modules are a box about 4" square on the front with a 4" fan at
> the front. The inside of the box is the right size for 4 3.5" drives, the
> outside is the size of 3 5-1/4" stacked drives (hense 4 in 3). There
> may be better fanned drive mounts, I don't know.
>
>> Which video card did you get?
>
> Asus EN7300GT Silent. Uses NVidia 7300 GT. 256 MB ram, hardware JPEG
> decoding (if you use the NVidia driver debian package).
>
>> How well is that mobo supported by Lenny? Did you have to use the
>> Sid installer? Any other gotchas?
>
> I had to use Etch beta 3 since the drives are SATA. Haven't tried Lenny
> or Sid. No gotchas at all.
>
> When I bought the box, my short list was this board for Athlon 64 and a
> Tyan for Opteron. Going Opteron would have cost me $500 more (added
> cost of CPU and the memory) and I couldn't swing it. AIUSI, the Athlon
> has the extra multimedia capability but since I went with hardware
> conversion it wouldn't have been an issue. I haven't _yet_ had to wait
> for anything other than disk IO, but who knows what 10 years will bring.
> The first upgrade I do will be to add a second 1 GB stick to make the
> DDR2 double-channel.
Interesting. Did you get PATA or SATA DVD drive? If SATA, what model?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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