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#Hp mediasmart server ex470 linux install#
The SSD will be a small size mini pcie type when I get it, or rather get another one thats the right physical size lol, didnt realise there are different size classes for length!Īnnoyingly I know for sure HiSpeed on with EHCI on settings definately worked with the previous ClearOS install on this board. The drives are 4 x 1TB enterprise class drives, 3 x WDC Caviar Black and 1 X Samsung Spinpoint F4 - originally 4 Caviar Blacks but one died and the Spinpoint is the closest performance match ecenomic replacement. The disk interface lists SATA mode, RAID or AHCI, I will probably favour AHCI and go with softraid or use the boards RAID controller. If I set HiSpeed (480 mbps) with EHCI on then boot hangs, with EHCI off boot will work with HiSpeed setting, but again with the EHCI error. If I set fullspeed (12mbps) with EHCI on then install will boot with a warning EHCI failed.
#Hp mediasmart server ex470 linux serial#
I will usually turn off audio and serial etc if not needed, iirc all unecessary are off. Thanks, I'll give them a go tomorrow and post back, will be counter productive to keep at this right now. USB Devices - (2x) Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub SCSI Devices - ATA KINGSTON SNV425S (Direct-Access) VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation ION VGA (2x) USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (2x) USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (3x) RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 RAID Controller (6x) PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection PCI Devices - Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor The HP Homeserver has now ended up for sale on ebay On reflection it would have been better to start again finding a better suited Atom ITX board, something with 5 sata and dual NIC's of an Intel variety, such boards are starting to appear with more than 4 sata ports using southbridge controllers like Intel ICH9R etc.
#Hp mediasmart server ex470 linux how to#
I can now get on with using and learning how to do more with ClearOS Overall its a bit less than I set out to achieve but Ive had enough, its main function is a simple home server with NAS style data backup and to serve a Joomla site, and do so with minimal powe consumption, so it'll do. So far its working well and Im starting to trust its reliability, its running gateway mode and whilenetwork speed is better its still not great performance, starting to thing the Atom board itself isnt great for network performance in some related way. In the end Ive gone with the 64GB Sata2 SSD as boot, and the 3 drives split in two hardware RAID5 partitions with 75% of the capacity for /var/flexshare and 25% for /home, ClearOS happily recognised the Intel NIC. I did 4 more attempts at softraid RAID 5, each one quickly failed through degredation of the raid5. I had a rethink and went with the SSD as boot and a softraid of 3 x 1TB, this failed as the softraid degraded and failed almost immediately after setup. I tried turning off the onboard raid and using the 4 hard disks as softraid, thats when I discovered theres no setup option for RAID 10 in softraid. The motherboard started returning an error there was not enough memory to copy the option rom. For some stupid reason the second sata controller could not co-exist with the onboard raid controller. Next I decided to try a pcie x1 sata card in to try to get 5 disks going, the plan was to used my sata ssd as the boot drive. While digging arround for the ssd I learned that the SSD slot is described by zotac as "reserved" for wifi etc cards, and in my reading up I have encountered many criticisms of the refinement of zotac bios setups so I decided not to risk finding out the expensive way if the socket is bootable or not. My original intention was a raid array of 4 disks and a mini-pcie ssd.