August 2004
Beginner
352 pages
13h 42m
English
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Building the System
Figure 4-1 shows the major components of the SOHO server. The Intel Server Chassis SC5250-E is flanked on the left by the Plextor PX-708A DVD writer and a Seagate External Hard Drive, and on the right by the Intel S875WP1-E server motherboard. In front of them, left to right, are four Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA hard drives and the retail-boxed Pentium 4 CPU. Two 256 MB sticks of Crucial memory are located front and center.
Figure 4-1. SOHO server components, awaiting construction
Make sure you have everything you need before you start building the system. Open each box and verify the contents against the packing list. Once again, we failed to follow that advice, and once again we got bit. This time, it was because we made what seemed at the time to be a reasonable assumption. The Intel SC5250-E specifications list support for four Serial ATA hard drives. We foolishly assumed that meant the power supply provided power connectors for at least four S-ATA drives. Wrong.
The Intel power supply provides zero S-ATA power connectors. For some S-ATA drives, that wouldn’t matter, because they have both S-ATA power connectors and standard (Molex) power connectors. Alas, the Seagate S-ATA drives have only S-ATA power connectors. We were stuck until we could come up with adapter cables to connect the Seagate S-ATA drives to the standard connectors on the Intel power supply. ...
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