-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? - -- 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! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGUw8gS9HxQb37XmcRAvGXAJ49RX+0xXHPWOFBpd8m8BfpFO6tFQCg5VS7 CmBGmHFtrCo4T44QBPqoKYg= =U9g/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
