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Installing a second hard drive with raid 1

Ward, I hope this helps you out.

I just finished installing the second hard drive in my gpc2, and it was pretty straight foward. I bought a Seagate 80gb for consistancy, but its not necesarry. Just make sure you use a 80gb or larger drive. The two spots left to mount the HD are meant for 3.5" disk drives, so you will have to modify it abit to get HD to fit. One the left mounting screw, bend the tab down slightly to get the holes to line up then screw the screw in. The right mounting hole doesn't line up with any holes on the case, but I went ahead and put a screw in it anyway to help keep the drive in place. There are no mounting screws for the back sde because its held in with compression tabs. The motherboard does not have very good SATA ports on it, so when you plug the cable in it will feel slightly loose. Just make sure they are plugged in all the way. That should be it for the physical labor. Button the case up and power it up.

Once its on, hit <Delete> to enter the bios. Then do the following:
- Integrated Peripherals
- VIA OnChip IDE Device
- Sata Mode [RAID]
- Save and Exit

Once the Sata Raid screen pops up, hit <Tab>. Then do the following:
- Create Array
- Auto Setup For Data Security (You can do it manually too if you like)
- "Create New Raid Success!!!
- Select Boot Array
- Select ARRAY 0, <Enter>
- Press <Esc>
- Press <Esc>
- Type 'Y'

Pop in PIAF 1.2, and you're good to go. Can anyone confirm or add to these instructions?
 

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I see that post. Digging a bit deeper online, I see where the 2500E might actually have the RAID capability too. I'll have to take my PiaF server offline and boot into the BIOS and take a peek.
 

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My motherboard, which is a CLUBIT purchase (not an Everex prebuilt machine, but I understand it is the same motherboard as the original WalMart system) also has this BIOS option for RAID. I understand the motherboard is the 2500E model number.

Now that presents some interesting possibilities too.
 
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Ward.

utsmostdumbest got it. The 2nd hard drive did not line up for me either. I rounded it out a little with a drill and its good to go. I think most folks will need to get creative.

Once you change from IDE to raid in the bios, you get another option and that is to hit the tab key to get into the raid controller. Choose the data security option and it creates the array. I would then exit and reboot.

After installing PIAF, I shutdown the box, pulled power to a drive, and started it back up. The array bios wigged out and you could continue on one drive. Then I shutdown, added power, and rebooted. It saw the drive was back and wanted to mirror it. It has to mirror it at the bios. So you wait for it to complete.

Not bad for $199/PC. If it was an HP server, you could boot OS and it mirrors in the background. but its not an HP server and you only paid $199 and not $2999+

In the bios you can disable com, parallel, sound ports and even USB. Cuts down on the irq as some are shared.

Overall the VIA MB is a nice little basic setup to run PIAF and a number of phones. At least for me. Replacing a home panasonic key system.
 

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Just ordered 3 of them...Keeping my fingers crossed!!!

I still need to decide on POTS integration (4 pots phone lines + 1 DSL/FAX/Credit Card Machine line)

So I guess 4fxo and 1 FXS.

Anyone had any luck so far with the Orgazmatron and POTS?
 

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Or... could this be your next PBX? Available direct from Everex with free shipping until June 1.

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Raid 1

I followed the setup from upmostdumbest on a gpc not a gpc2, I switched out the ide for 2 sata drives. the prosses seems to work but when I load PIAF using ks-sataraid it starts to load but it always stops and says (problem occured on line 11 of kickstart file) & (specfied nonexsitent disk sda in partition command) any thoughts :confused5:

Gary
 

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This is because I suspect the bios is trying to assign the pata cdrom into the mix. I suspect you have to use an external USB drive in order to get it to work.

Tom
 

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Hey all you folks that bought the actual WalMart/Everex box.

Please tell me if you have a 40mm fan on the CPU heatsink. I've read online that you don't, but would like to confirm.

I have one that came on my motherboard, but it was on a ClubIT developer board and not a Walmart system. It is cheap and very noisy. I'm thinking about simply removing it, as I've been led to believe it isn't really needed due to low heat output on the processor.

Many thanks in advance.
 

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I bought the NewEgg/Everex/gPC2...

It does have a small fan on the CPU's heatsink. It's reasonably quiet...

Peter
 

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Thanks for the reply. Anyone with the original unit able to confirm a fan?
 

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what is the architecture of this machine.
Intel, AMD or something else?
I want to purchase some softecho sofware and need to know.

Thanks
 

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I did google it:
The VIA C7®-D processor is based on the low profile NanoBGA2 package that measures just 21mm x 21mm and is scalable from 1.5GHz to 1.8GHz.

Trying to make sure I dl the correct soft echo packages
 

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Can anyone share the link to the special 2 ISO version for the Walmart special? I just had my server delivered and will spend the $5 to download the ISO, but thought I would ask first to see if anyone can share it with me.

We're a startup company just trying to save a buck. Thanks.

EDIT: Nevermind, I bought it. And will share it if anyone asks.
 

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Motherboard?

I ordered an Idot pc2500g motherboard. I plan on installing it in a rack case I have. I plan on powering it with a pico PSU. And eventually running it off a cf card using an IDE to cf adapter. Obviously I a shooting for low power. I would like to "restore" the two disk orgasmotron to the system. What do I need to mimic in order to use the orgasmotron? Do I need the same hard drive capacity as the gpc2(80gb)? What about ram? Does it need to be the same? I'm pretty sure that if I can do the initial install then I will be able to migrate to the cf drive and more ram without issue.
 

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Don't know. You'll just have to try it and see if it works. Don't count on it. But, by all means, let us know either way. :wink5:
 

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I ordered an Idot pc2500g motherboard. I plan on installing it in a rack case I have. I plan on powering it with a pico PSU.

I'd also definitely be interested in how this works, we can't get the whole PC in England but I've found out where to get this motherboard from and its literally up the road from me :) (I prefer to support local business whenever possible)
 

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I have been trying to use the downloaded isos to get a system up and running but get all kinds of errors after starting nuke and finally get a "can't access tty; job control turned off" error

The hardwares all new, 80GB HDD, cdrom & same mobo as the newegg system

any help appreciated

lopaka:crazy:
 

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