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2002-07-16 00:00
in Computers, Linux
After moving in a house, I made the linen closet a wiring closet, CAT-5e to all the rooms, and thanks to a job at VA Linux, I was able to get a fair amouunt of leftover free hardware, including:
a nice network swith (100Mbit/s, the good stuff, haha)
2 7-drive SCSI SCA disk shelves, plus a 3rd disk shelf, and I remember having 26 SCSI drives on a single machine, for a monster total filesystem of 2TB, yes 2TB!!!
Also got an old DAT3 tape autoloader with tape bar code reader. This one took a long time to get working, but in the end, I was able to backup the 2TB on a bunch of tapes, that was no small feat back then
I do remember needed a lot of SCSI cards in a single server to run all of this, but it did eventually run :)
Picture shows both a cable modem and ADSL modem
From 2002/07/05
gargamel:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 125M 49M 69M 41%
/dev/md1 125M 77M 41M 65% /safe /dev/BootSWRaid5/usr 1.5G 466M 1.0G 32% /usr /dev/BootSWRaid5/var 2.0G 1.1G 915M 55% /var /dev/BootSWRaid5/home 113G 90G 22G 80% /home /dev/Eurologic1SWRaid5/media1 394G 251G 143G 64% /home/bigraid1 /dev/md3 1006G 33M 1006G 1% /mnt/mnt /dev/md4 407G 33M 406G 1% /mnt/mnt2 113+394+1006+407 = 1920 gargamel:~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS10K2-TY367J Rev: DDD6 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336704LC Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336704LC Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336704LC Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 10 Lun: 00 Vendor: HITACHI Model: DK32CJ-36MC Rev: JBBB Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 12 Lun: 00 Vendor: ECRIX Model: VXA-1 Rev: 2959 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 13 Lun: 00 Vendor: ECRIX Model: VXA-1 Rev: 2959 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 14 Lun: 00 Vendor: SPECTRA Model: 215 Rev: E010 Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST173404LC Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST173404LC Rev: 0003 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS10K2-TY734J Rev: DDD6 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST173404LC Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST373405LC Rev: 0001 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS10K2-TY734J Rev: DDD6 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST173404LC Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST373405LC Rev: 0001 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 09 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST373405LC Rev: 0003 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 10 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST373405LC Rev: 0001 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 11 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST373405LC Rev: 0003 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 12 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST373405LC Rev: 0003 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 13 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST373405LC Rev: 0003 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 14 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST373405LC Rev: 0001 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: VA Linux Model: nexStor 8Le 1.03 Rev: 0118 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST1181677LC Rev: F201 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 09 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST1181677LC Rev: F201 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 10 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST1181677LC Rev: F201 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 11 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST1181677LC Rev: F201 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 12 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST1181677LC Rev: F201 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 13 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST1181677LC Rev: F201 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 14 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST1181677LC Rev: F201 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
I even had a punchdown 66 block for multiple phone lines and ADSL, plus CAT5-E to the whole house
Yeah, I had to installing each and every cable one by one, wire by wire
This was almost pro-looking :)
Two servers, one file/master server (also home automation) and one router server, with UPS on top
that was the new router with 2 network cards, and somehow it still had SCSI because I didn't care more much for IDE ;)
A bit later, it got a bit more full :)
Years later, I was able to replace the 26 SCSI drive file server with a new one and 12 internal drives (SATA by then)
more drives on the outside (for backup) via eSATA
a few more SCSI cables (CAT-6)
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