Rage: Part 2
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The present truck(s) were good to me today. I received the two Intel Xeon x5680 CPUs, the two Seagate Barracuda 1TB drives, the Intel 160GB G2 SSD, and the second heat sink. The SuperMicro hot-swap trays don't allow for mounting 2.5" drives, so I had to mount the SSD in a 3.5" bracket in a 5.25" bracket. Lame. As I mentioned in my last post, the first CPU cooler's fan conflicts with the rear chassis fan. Since I had to choose between the two, I chose to keep the larger (quieter) chassis fan, but I connected it to CPU 1 FAN instead of the FAN 5 header. This is a guess on my part, but I figure the CPU is first thing to get hot, and the most valuable component in the system, so it makes sense to me to let its temperature determine the fan speed. This may cause problems however as the fan speed used by the CPU 1 FAN is probably not appropriate for the larger fan, and I don't know how removing the FAN 5 connection will impact how the system decides to use the forward fan (which is smaller, and louder). Any insight readers may have here is very welcome.
Initial power-on is always exciting, this was no different, perhaps more so. After pressing the power button, Rage jumped to life like a wild beast startled from slumber. Her fans roared and her many bright beady eyes flickered their discontent. After familiarizing myself with her BIOS settings, I ran a quick Ubuntu 10 install off USB (it was absurdly fast). The BIOS RAID options were confusing at best, and I felt I just might get better results with software RAID via mdadm (at least more control). Rage is currently resyncing a RAID 1 array composed of the two 1TB SATA drives. I'm not sure quite how long this will take, and with her periodic snoring (loud fan bursts), I may just have to force her back into hibernation so my better half can sleep tonight.
Just as soon as I can I'll kick off a complete Yocto build and share the results. Following that, I'll run some burn in tests to ensure the memory, CPUs, and HDDs are all functioning properly. I haven't tested IPMI 2.0 support yet (remote access, KVM, etc.) I'll get to that soon as well.
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