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. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
