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I checked it out, it was neat. I think if anything it would be useful for power review. Perhaps a few benchmarks using the most popular large drives. For example, my drives say WD10EACS .70a 12v, .55a 5v Barracuda 7200.11 1TB, .85a 12v, .6a 5v. I would pull it off my 1.5tb's but they are busy and I do not want to shutdown the torrent client.

How long does it take to bring the machine up to an accessible point (login) from an S3 state?

I dunno, you will be the first to test! LOL!

I use hdparm. I have a script in this thread. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2555.0 you would need to modify it to point to the hard drives you want to set via serial number. You can also set WD drives via a jumper.

I wonder if the drives would still spin up if you set power up in standby mode? I set this option on my WD Green drives. When the system is powered on the drives are in standby mode and do not spin up until the kernel activates them. Also, how fast does the server return from S3 to power on usable state?

I can compile it if need be.

Sometimes there is a bios option to re-initialize the video bios after returning from sleep. You can check your bios and toggle the option to see if this helps.

It makes you wonder.. According to these articles anything 12TB and over, i.e. a 16 Drive unRAID environment with 1TB drives, is doomed too.

NIce Lunatic, I did not even think about doing the cardboard blocking thing. Did you do the taping as suggested? How are your hard drive temps? Were the removables worth it in the end? (I think so!) It's a spiffy case with the removables. Thumbs up for the great pics!

AS a cache drive it will do fine. And they are designed for many spinups over a lifetime.

You might be better off selling that and putting the money towards a larger drive. It may slow down your monthly parity checks. (You do those right?)

I did not know those adapters even existed. Thanks for sharing!

if you use the calculator on Corsair's website they will probably say this power supply is enough. The website says specifically - >> Planned Expansion (on the off-chance that I might need more than 9 drives): Not sure you need all those parts. You could go with 5in3s in a good case and not have any outside wiring. So if you were to double check your power supply and needs, then consider the 5in3's and a new case, you could fit it all in one place.

My Larger Rig. This has been a long time coming.. Although I have the mini-itx version, I finally finished building a larger cost effective version Parts List Abit AB9 PRO 2.6ghz Core 2 Duo - Used on eBay - a Celeron 440 2Ghz is quite sufficient. 8gb OCZ PC6400 RAM - 4G is sufficient for 99% of the people. Centurion 590 - Great cheap case with allot of fan placement. Seasonic 500W Power Supply (it was laying around idle) Extra 120MM fans ~ $15 (box of 4 coolermasters). Kingston 2GB Secure Digital (SD) Flash Card w/MobileLite Reader Model FCR-ML+SD/2GB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134548 iStarUSA T-5-SA 1x5.25" Bay Trayless Anti-vibration SATA Mobile Rack http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215046 Additional items. Gigabute I-RAM PCI Ram disk http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Storage/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2180 This is for a future application to allow me to use the server as an NFS server for other machines. IDE to CF adapter + 4GB CF card (to backup the battery backed ramdisk.. just in case). Cheap PCIe 4x video card from eBay.. which will end up getting dropped for a 1X. Masscool PCIe 1x 2 SATA port controller (for the ramdisks). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815280008 I'll probably upgrade to a 4X PCIe 4x 4 port adapter to expand to 12 or maybe 15 drives in the future.. For right now it seems just as I fill the slots, new drives come out that are large enough to replace current drives. Notes: I really love the trayless sata design. They can use MOLEX or SATA power connectors. I choose this model in particular because the vents are larger then other models. Some of the other models have the vents blocked a little by the drive. This one has slightly more leeway for air flow. I also choose this model because they are fanless. I use the large 120MM fans to suck the air from the front. This requires taping up open vents on the case to keep the drives cool. I choose this design so I did not have a bunch of tiny fans spinning and used the larger fans instead. It's working well for me. These trayless are not perfect though. When you open the key, it does not power down the drive. So you probably want to replace drives while the machine is off. Also, the drives tend to get sort of stuck on the inside, so you wiggle them a little and they pop out. Still for me I like the idea of swapping bad (or upgrading) drives like they are floppies. No tray, no screws, Just unlock, open, wiggle, replace, close, lock, boot, click, click, and you are up and running. Also, The SATA cable does not lock into the trayless. in theory, the cable could eventually loosen due to drive vibration. Only happened once in the last 6 months. I plan to upgrade eventually to the 5in3 trayless modules, but for right now I do not need more then 9 drives. I have more pictures here, which shows different views and where to tape up the case. http://www.cotrone.com/rob/gallery/Atlas

What does the front look like? How small is it?

You could change the home directory of the user in question to a physical drive on your machine. Then the files placed there will continue to be there with customizations after each reboot. However, you will probably have to reinstall the package upon each reboot or possibly alter the bzroot image for a more permanent change.

do a cat /etc/resolv.conf Chances are your name is not resolving You can substituite the IP address for the hostname as in the example below root@Atlas:/mnt/disk2/bittorrent# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8D:9D:7B:AA inet addr:192.168.1.179 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:263331527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:255971791 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4217610711 (3.9 GiB) TX bytes:3314289142 (3.0 GiB) Interrupt:16 root@Atlas:/mnt/disk2/bittorrent# /usr/bin/rsync rsync://192.168.1.179/ backups Backups vmware VMWare Backups music Music pub Public Files boot /boot files mnt /mnt files Videos VIDEOS bittorrent BITTORRENT

Try these root@Atlas:/mnt/disk2/bittorrent# whereis rsync rsync: /usr/bin/rsync /usr/bin/X11/rsync root@Atlas:/mnt/disk2/bittorrent# ls -l /usr/bin/rsync -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 276688 Jun 14 23:04 /usr/bin/rsync* root@Atlas:/mnt/disk2/bittorrent# /usr/bin/rsync rsync://Tower backups Backups vmware VMWare Backups music Music pub Public Files boot /boot files mnt /mnt files Videos VIDEOS bittorrent BITTORRENT Also do echo $PATH

On your Tower server type rsync://Tower Where Tower is equal to your real hostname. On mine it is as follows root@Atlas:/mnt/disk2/bittorrent# rsync rsync://Atlas backups Backups vmware VMWare Backups music Music pub Public Files boot /boot files mnt /mnt files Videos VIDEOS bittorrent BITTORRENT

Proper syntax is rsync://hostname/myshare/filename Where Hostname is the destination Host (like http) Where myshare is the section defined in the /etc/rsyncd.conf file as in [myshare] Everything after myshare/ refers the the location appended to the path = /mnt/disk1/myshare So If I had a section called /mnt [mnt] path = /mnt Then you could do a rsync file... rsync://Tower/mnt/disk1/somedirectory/

>> Am I supposed to make any entry to /etc/inetd.conf file ? The script S20-init.rsyncd does that for you. (or you could do it manually) >> What is a rsyncd.pid file. It's a semaphore file to signal the daemon is running. It will contact the active pid when rsync is running in daemon mode from inetd. it will only be there when you have an active rsync running. >> i just opened some file and edited it to look like rsyncd.conf and saved it as rsyncd.conf, was that OK? As long as it was saved as rsyncd.conf, that is fine.

>> Do both locations of rsyncd.conf suppose to be on flash : no /etc is on the root filesystem /boot/custom/etc is on the flash. if you edit the file in /etc then that's where it will exist. if you edit it in /boot/custom/etc. that's where it will exist. Perhaps better to edit as /boot/custom/etc/rsyncd.conf then cp /boot/custom/etc/rsyncd.conf /etc/rsyncd.conf Where and how are you doing the edit? Are you telneting in and editing with vi or doing it via windows?

I've no experience with Deltacopy. I know when using rsync it has a URI type interface as in rsync://hostname/myshare/filename myshare is the block defined as [myshare] path = /mnt/disk1/myshare comment = Backup read only = FALSE list = yes

>> 1. Do I create file "rsyncd.conf" similar to yours and place it in /etc/rsyncd.conf Yes, but you will also need to copy and save this file somewhere on your flash drive. We recommend /boot/custom/etc. So you should have /etc/rsyncd.conf and /boot/custom/etc/rsyncd.conf which should be the same. 2 .Create a file "S20-init.rsyncd" looking like thi Yes. Create it as /boot/custom/etc/rc.d/S20-init.rsyncd #!/bin/bash if ! grep ^rsync /etc/inetd.conf > /dev/null ; then cat <<-EOF >> /etc/inetd.conf rsync stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/rsync --daemon EOF read PID < /var/run/inetd.pid kill -1 ${PID} fi cp /boot/custom/etc/rsyncd.conf /etc/rsyncd.conf Notice the last line which copies the saved version of rsyncd.conf to the /etc directory. >> 3.What do you mean call it from /boot/config/go script THere is a script in the /boot/config directory called "go" Modify this script with your editor. Add the following line at the end of it to call S20-init.rsyncd /boot/custom/etc/rc.d/S20-init.rsyncd