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[Guillaume ROMAGNY <guillaume AT cacert.org>]

Hello !


Le 02/07/2011 13:03, Jan Dittberner a écrit :

> On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Wytze van der Raay wrote:
>> Op 2-7-2011 3:11, 
>> ulrich AT cacert.org
>>  schreef:
>>> usb legacy support  is one option in many bios'es
>>> if you don't have an usb mouse and usb keyboard connected
>>> disable usb legacy support might be an option
>> Please believe me ... Mendel is no fool and has attempted all
>> available options, only to find that they didn't work.
>>
>> A BIOS upgrade as suggested by Mario *might* change the picture,
>> but it's not a simple operation -- it appears to require combined
>> upgrades of all the firmware components in the ILO processor (it
>> was never touched since installation in 2007).
>>
>> Remote switchable power or some NAS-like connection appear the most
>> promising "solutions", but will require extra equipment.
> Maybe getting a Grub2 MBR on that USB disk that uses the configuration
> on the system disk, as suggested by Guillaume, might be an option. As
> far as I remember you can tell Grub install where it should put its
> stage 1 (MBR code) and where it finds its stage 2 (grub.cfg).
>
>
> Regards
> Jan
>

Ya, if the Grub trick works, then you have time to buy a cheap NAS. I
have currently bought and I am waiting the SLOW (30MB/s read/write) but
cheap (NAS = 50 euros) Dlink DNS-320 with a 2 disks RAID-1 array (both 1
TB). The interesting part is the disks are ext3 formatted... so the NAS
is linux based (and disks I guess can be extracted to another linux or
windows box (with the proper EXT2-3-4 freeware dll driver))

http://wiki.dns323.info/dns-320

But yet, I have my linux box with a 2 * 2 TB disks for storage/backup,
one disk (WD Caviar green) has Oracle BtrFS (with transparent
compression) that is doing like 110MB/s over samba/ethernet. The other
disk (Seagate "green") is NTFS-3g and a lame duck with disk speed over
network :) 50/60MB/s due to payload with "user space" ntfs-3g + samba
daemons

But instead of samba you can use NFSv3

other options. 2 cents

Kind regards,

Guillaume

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