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Anyone have a fix for why my WinXP gives me, after mapping something from my linux, something like " the destination does not support long filenames" when I try to save something? If I just go to start-> run -> \\IP\share everything works ok? Using Samba 3.x on the linux (tried 2 different...

Nasty stuff, isn't this more appropriate? :wink:

Hdparm gives me 188MB/s for buffered reads, and 28MB/s for normal reads.

Where's my e-mule....Serendipity and Van Helsing you said.....;) ? I'll probably go watch Van Helsing this weekend. Any comments no S and VH?

Watching underworld at the moment. Looking at the female star of the movie, the first thought I had was that Merc must have enjoyed this one. Merc? Or was the Matrix special? The dress is very good. 8)

Bartender, a round on me. 8) Now where's that movies thread...

:mrgrn: GREAT STUFF! (sorry for shouting :) ! I seem to be browsing through the register every day lately, in anticipation for a new story.

Heh, good one :)

Interesting article about differences with ext2/3, reiserfs, xfs and jfs here: http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html

That's what I thought first, only 12. Specially when the write was similar.. I just cat'ed 27GB of big files to /dev/null, and some 1-2GB files also, and the speed was between 22-29MB/s, hovering on average at 25MB/s. That's more like it, double the read speed compared to write speed! :)

Now I just need a god case for all this, the current one can't handle all the disks. After looking at compucase and antec getting a case for a max of 9drives + floppy is pretty...challenging. If one don't want to loose an arm and a leg ....

Almost forgot, after an upgrade of parted and libreiserfs, the resizing if the 5 drive array went smooth. Just told parted to "resize 1 0.000 610523.000" and away it went. It even did a resize on the reiserfs filesystem while it was at it.

Results from a highly respected and scientifically established benchmark (no, not Sandra you fools) resulted in a read speed of about 12MB/s, pretty close to the write speed, which I'll test later. The benchmark? Just "time cp filename /dev/null" .....;)

The reconstruction took all night. I'm wondering if the rebuild rate on the controller affects that. I'm going to change that from the default 30% to 80%. I just copied stuff from a Samsung 5400rpm drive to the raid, on the same host. 110GB later, the transfer rate came to about 11MB/s. This is...

34% into reconstruction, after 5 hours...Guess I'll get to copy some more stuff in the morning.

Just added a fourth drive to the array, which is being reconstructed. So far so good.

Just partitioned and formatted the drive with reiserfs. Moving 20 GB of stuff from one other drive to the raid resulted in about 12MB writing speed. As soon as all the copying is done, I'll add another drive to the array. Anyone used parted to enlarge a partition? Working with RH9.

Ok, I've got the card, used the webbios to set up a raid-5 with 64KB stripe size, read ahead, write back. Going to add the 2 other drives when I've been able to make a partition and move the data to the raid.

Thanks Bozo! I'm going to stick the card and the drives in my RH9 system, and use Reiserfs with it. Reiserfs programs includes resize_reiserfs, which allows you to resize an unmounted partition.

Getting the card tomorrow. Going to run 5*160GB Samsung SP80 drives, not the 8mb version (2mb? cant remember). This means that I'm going to have to put 2 drives on one of the channels.

Thanks! No, I reckon the most important details were there :)

Only 7 systems Mark??! Could you give the specs for them? I think I'm running the following now: Barton 3000 Barton 2800 XP 1700 1.6 Mobile in laptop (T40) Celeron 500 and probably 5 more at a friends place (not sure how many computers he installed FAH on).

With David's help this team will start kicking some a** again! Now, where to find some more machines...otherwise he'll fly right past me during the next few months....;)

Hey, great. Thanks Quebec. When will you have time to install it?

Still haven't gotten the card. Found a lot of links an comments on this card over at www.2cpu.com.

I just tested the www.broomeman.com instructions, worked like a charm.

The page mentions IE6 sp1, and even has a link to MS with similar instructions? With what version of IE did you try this Mark? What OS?

Hmm, labeled as Guardian.

Let's keep the conversation in the computers forum, shall we? Easier to find the links and stuff here... ;)

Ah, but picture the next card from Nvidia! Three molex connectors with compulsory own PS, taking 4-5 PCI slots! And the next one, with it's own case and dual powersupplies and the compulsory watercooling!

zx at 30k+ points! Rock on! Fushigi at 90k+! Crunch on! Good work people!

Sounds darn good Greg! I'll bet using that beast makes one smile easily :)

Way to go Mark! 100k+ points! Nice work! Boost, 1k+, good start!

LOL! :mrgrn:

I had finally some time to install gentoo, and have now emerged (during the night) the following programs and their dependencies: ssh,vi,tcpdump,ethereal, nmap,nessus,openldap,samba,apache, gnome and openoffice. I haven't started X yet, I'll hopefully have time for that late tonight. After...

Another vote for Suse.

Thanks Boost. I didn't check the 8506, but didn't see a similar future mentioned on the 7506? Did I just miss it? THe 9xxx series has the OCE (on-line capacity expansion or something like that).

Hijacking didn't even cross my mind...:)

Have you tried Suse? Last time I installed it the whole package seemed like a very professional product.

No and No. As an excuse, I was in a hurry and the choise was do wihtout those or don't install. A good point, but the error message looked normal to me (normal kernel "bye,bye", error in fs/xxx/xxxx then dumping information about it (like in "cut here and e-mail developers")) and the...

Has any of you gentlemen used the Flexraid system to add a drive to an existing Raid-5 system, therefore expanding it to a larger size? I'm under the impression that this is possible? I'm hoping to set up a Raid-5 now and later on add more drives to it without needing to build it from...

It was a normal install, and all the way from the first boot the kernel dies. So I never got as far as a shell, until I booted in rescue mode, tried to unload some of the stuff that was in rc3.d. That didn't help, the kernel dies on me. Default everything.

Unfortunately not, but maybe I can borrow a AIT from a friend.....

Good to know your opinion. The card is coming from the UK, hopefully here next week. A friend ordered 2 cards, one for each. Where to get 500-600GB of free space for backup before building the raid....hmmm......

Great! THen I can ask you for advice? I'm installing this on my Barton 2.8@3.2, 512MB, SCSI system.

Doh, my usual luck. Just when I get online and logged in here everyone leaves and goes to sleep :)

Yup, the sun is just rising here. And I just remembered that I didn't put sshd up at home, so I can't configure gentoo until this evening....:( What is you upload bandwidth? Mine was just upgraded to 512kb.

After a few installs of Fedora Test2 and some configuration changes the system still wont boot, kernel's not happy. So I downloaded a Gentoo minimal bootdisk, 79MB, and started to play with that. After I got it to boot (it needed the doscsi and nohotplug switches for me) I got so far as getting...

Do you mind if I try this when I get home, Merc?

LOL!