Re: wheezy drive recognition?
On Thursday 16 April 2015 16:01:31 David Christensen wrote:
> On 04/16/2015 11:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > ... I discovered the atom based box for <$300 which are
> > great for a one stop solution for the machinery controls. So this
> > phenom box was my last real build, 8 years (nominally) ago.
>
> Please tell us about your Atom box(es). (I've been eyeballing the
> D2500CC for IPCop.)
They were the Intel D525MW boards, in a box made by ARK, a subsidiary of
Intel. Running an RTAI patched kernel, wit hyperthreading disabled an a
kernel argument of "isolcpus=1", the IRQ latency is about 2 u-s at the
halfway mark on the bell curve.
>
> What machinery?
Cnc, aka Computer Numerically Controlled, for metal or wood cutting
machinery, lathes or milling machines, I have one of each.>
> > Switch it for a router running dd.wrt.
>
> I'd love to, but my Netgear FVS318G isn't supported.
>
> > I could probably bring in the lappy from the shop, it has mint 14 on
> > it at the moment. Bring it in and get an email agent working so I
> > am not exactly 100% locked out of help on the net. Some house
> > cleaning is in order to make room for it. Which I should probably
> > get to already...
>
> My ~1997 laptop has enough power to do simple desktop stuff, but not
> much more. I'm starting to realize this is a good thing, because it
> forces me to do my experiments on other machines. So, the laptop
> stays simple and working.
I am of that same opinion, as long as the battery doesn't explode I'm
fine. That OEM battery is now north of a decade old so I fully expect
the in-cord psu will upchuck trying to charge it one of these fine days.
> > You then maintain your own local mirrors of the repos you need?
>
> I set up a 5 GB HTTP proxy and hosts entry in IPCop, and added a line
> to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf in each machine:
>
> Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy:8080";;
>
> > Using amanda here, which has the bare metal recovery covered.
> > Small drive is relative, it will be a 1T Seagate thats about a year
> > old. This time I envision that 1T as a boot drive, the 2T as /home &
> > /opt, and temporarily another 1T for amanda. That drive is at about
> > 65% of capacity now & also has the shop machines included in its
> > disklist. But that drive now has >50,000 hours on it, so will likely
> > be replaced by the 2nd 2T I just bought, in due time of course.
>
> So, 1 laptop, 1 desktop, 2 @ 1 TB drives (1 newer, 1 older), and 2 @ 2
> TB drives (both new)? I assume the laptop has a HDD?
100Gigs. Hasn't sneezed (yet).
> Do you know if the laptop or the desktop machine can use a USB flash
> drive as the system drive? My 945 chipset and newer machines can do
> this. It is one of the best cheap Linux tricks I've ever discovered.
With limited life of the flash, linux filesystems are hell on flash.
> I use the SanDisk Ultra Fit 16 GB USB 3.0, ($10.57 on Amazon), and
> they perform at least as well as small 7200 RPM HDD's; even on USB 2.0
> ports.
My old Asus board does not support that AFAIK.
>
>
> I would recommend:
>
> 1. Do a fresh install of Wheezy (!) with your favorite graphical
> desktop on the laptop, and move into that as your personal
> workstation.
>
> 2. Get a small system drive for the Phenom box, do a fresh install of
> Wheezy (!) with or without X/ window manager/ graphical desktop, use
> the newer 1 TB drive for data, set up file serving (NFS, Samba,
> whatever), use the older 1 TB drive for Amanda, and use the 2 TB
> drives for copies of the Amanda archives (at least one off-site at all
> times).
If I need an offsite, that event will probably coincide with my demise.
At 80, I am well aware that waking up in the morning is an excuse to
celebrate. ;-)
> 3. Buy or build a machine you can mess with (Jessie, whatever), and
> leave the other two alone.
>
> 4. Consider building another Wheezy box for Amanda.
At this late date, I think the one box does it all is ok. The wife will
probably crawl under the desk and power down the room by pulling line
cords when I am gone. And has no interest in learning the technical
stuff. So if I am not here, its all moot.
> David
Cheers David, Gene Heskett
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