Configuration of Merlin
This is the file server for my network. It
used to have a 60 GB IDE IBM drive in it, but it turns out that these
were pretty unreliable. I feel that I did very well with mine to get
something like 4 years of 24/7 operation out of it. After some
trials with a Promise 20375 DMA133 IDE card I ended up with a CMD649
DMA100 card instead. That has worked well for me while the
Promise was giving me kernel panics after a couple weeks of
uptime. Now I'm trying to use that same Promise card in my main
workstation since it gets rebooted fairly often, and otherwise it is
only DMA33 for the DMA100 drives in it. So far this hasn't gone
very well either. I think this card should be limited to toy OSs,
or trash cans.
Full Tower Case
CPU - Dual Intel PentiumIII 1 Ghz
MB - SuperMicro 370DDE
RAM - 1 GB (2x 256 MB PC133 + 512 MB PC133)
Stealth II
Intel EE Pro 10/100 PCI
Drives
3x 250 GB SATA as RAID 5
52x CDROM
3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy
Operating Systems
Linux 2.6