August 2014 - luv-main

SATA SSD + RAID
by hannah commodore 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi all, I've inherited a system which has an Adaptec 2420SA RAID controller and 4x SSDs running in RAID6. There's no end to problems experienced with this setup; a disk seems to time out and get ejected from the controller at least every week. It's not always the same disk though, and I've tried replacing each of the SSDs with their spares, to no avail. Is there any known issue with using SSDs in hardware RAID that I've overlooked? Performance isn't *that* much of an issue, since it's only running Apache + mod_perl and a ~100GB MySQL database. Any thoughts appreciated Thanks, Hannah

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PCI GigE cards
by Russell Coker 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

MSY is selling PCI GigE cards for $7 each. If you want to upgrade to GigE but have some P3 or P4 class systems in your network then this is a good opportunity. PCIe GigE cards were $11 each at MSY last time I bought some. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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dns question.
by Daniel Jitnah 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

Hi All, when I do dig somedomain.org I get: ; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> somedomain.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached What is the "no servers" that could not be reached?? If I do dig greenwareit.com.au it works fine. Both somedomain.org and greenwareit (and 3 other domains) are on the same dns server. somedomain.org is registered with namecheap.com. Any one has domain registered with them? (not my choice) Cheers Daniel.

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