Unexpected new server
Now that the Shuttle system appears unsalvagable—no activity, even with a nice fresh BIOS chip—I suppose I should record the emergency server rebuild from a few weeks ago. On Saturday, Dina noticed she wasn’t getting any email. We had houseguests, so I didn’t slip out to Central Computer until Sunday, with a plan to wrap a new system around the old disks. I ultimately ended up with
- Asus A8V Deluxe
- AMD Athlon 64 3000+
- 1 GB
- Intel PRO/1000 GT [32-bit drivers from Intel for now]
- ATI PCI graphics card
- 2 × Western Digital 120GB drives
all in a CoolerMaster <a href=“http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?LT=english&Language_s=2&url_place=product&p_serial=CAC-T05&other_title=0"
Centurion 5 case, and which is now running Solaris 10. The motherboard works well, although I’m only using the IDE controllers and none of the SATA or RAID functionality. (I also couldn’t match a driver to the onboard Gigabit Marvell Ethernet.)
Like any project at our place now, willing helpers materialize, tools in hand, even for a no-tools case:
I’ve built enough systems now that we shortly were ready for action, and blueslugs.com
and highmaintenancemom.com
were back:
cooler
lives in the office closet, which it shares with the UPS which selflessly filters PG&E’s rot gut, leaving only nicely distilled power:
(Without the Shuttle as a new desktop, I’m deciding between building another A8V-based system in a CoolerMaster Cavalier 4, or buying an Ultra 20.)
[T: Solaris]