{"id":556,"date":"2009-10-11T20:55:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T04:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2009-10-11T20:55:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T04:55:50","slug":"server-upgrade-for-ylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Server upgrade for Ylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I finally finished the latest hardware upgrade to ylum, the server you&#8217;re probably reading this on.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been trying to upgrade it in one form or another for a month or a month and a half.\u00a0 The original goal was to get a FreeBSD gmirror running for backups (along with filesystem snapshots for file recovery).\u00a0 That required upgrading my hardware because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=74\">old cheap motherboard<\/a> I was using wouldn&#8217;t support the SATA disks I was moving to for mirroring.\u00a0 Then I had another bad bargain basement experience, and a second motherboard with transient lockup problems.\u00a0 All in all frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I stopped by Fry&#8217;s and picked up an Intel motherboard and Intel i5 4-core CPU.\u00a0 Gotta dig the matching boxes:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_557\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN3957.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-557\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-557\" title=\"Intel boxes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN3957-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Matching Boxes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matching Boxes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The only problem is that I didn&#8217;t realize that this board has no parallel ATA controller until I was standing there with nowhere to plug my old disk in.\u00a0 I was able to use the unreliable motherboard to move my data and OS over to a SATA disk, which just booted and ran on the Intel motherboard.\u00a0 Not an upgrade path I would recommend, but overall things are pretty good.\u00a0 FreeBSD doesn&#8217;t quite see the onboard ethernet yet, but that should be a minor problem, and I have a legacy PCI ethernet in there now that&#8217;s doing fine.\u00a0 The new ylum internals look like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_559\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN39581.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-559\" title=\"Ylum innards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSCN39581-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ylum innards\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ylum innards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s some cleanup and tweaking to do, but 4 2.66 Ghz CPUs make software updates fo much faster.\u00a0 And mirroring should go into use shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for any inconvenience, and as always we thank you for your support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I finally finished the latest hardware upgrade to ylum, the server you&#8217;re probably reading this on.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been trying to upgrade it in one form or another for a month or a month and a half.\u00a0 The original goal was to get a FreeBSD gmirror running for backups (along with filesystem snapshots for file 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