August 2004
Beginner
352 pages
13h 42m
English
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Plan to devote a weekend to building and configuring the SOHO server. Actual assembly takes only an hour or two; the rest of the time will be occupied with installing and configuring the server operating system.
Installing software
Well, we thought the system was complete and ready to go. We were wrong. Almost every time we build a system without a floppy drive—as Intel and Microsoft keep telling us to do—that decision bites us in the butt. This time was no exception. As it turned out, we needed a floppy drive not just once, but twice—once to update the BIOS, and a second time to install the RAID drivers during the OS install.
Note
To download RAID drivers, visit the Intel web site and search for S875WP1. When you locate the main page for the motherboard, click on the link for drivers. Specify the OS for which you need drivers and download the appropriate ones. For Linux, the driver you want is the Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Driver for Red Hat Linux 8.0, filename RH8_RAID_PROMISE.EXE.
Most people would probably just install an $8 floppy disk drive and have done with it. Not us. We’re ornery. We weren’t about to mess up our prettily dressed cables and stick an obsolete piece of technology into our shiny new server. Not us. No way.
So we did what we usually do. We popped the side panel, laid the floppy disk drive on top of the case, and connected the data cable and power cable just long enough to get done what we needed to do. Once we’d updated the BIOS and fed the Promise ...
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