Lembit Soobik
lembit.dbamail at t-online.de
Fri Feb 9 05:31:45 CST 2007
thanks John, I have not installed the disks, only the NASlite software on an old 500MHz PC which I did not need any more. also, I have not decided yet which disks to use. once i do that I wil install a Gigabit network card. I really dont need a very fast startup, so for the time being a floppy is fine. But I would like to have it auto started when I turn my main PC on (maybe run a little VB program from Autostart) This PC does have a "Wake on LAN". My question was really how to make the wakeup call. Lembit ----- Original Message ----- From: "JWColby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a network storage device > You are using NASLite? > > The BIOD might have a "wake on lan" setting. I have never really > understood > what that does for you precisely. > > One thing I would recommend is to see if you can boot off a USB thumb > drive. > If so, then you could place the NASLite out on a thumb drive, plug it in, > ad > boot from that. It would be almost instantaneous for a system as small as > NASLit appears to be, which would allow "wake on lan" to actually be > useful, > although even then the storage drives would have to spin up before the > storage could be used. I have no clue how long that takes, although I do > know that for a large raid like I am doing, they stagger the drives spinup > so that the drives don't all come up at once, in order to take it easy on > the system power supply. > > Thanks Lembit, keep us informed on how it is working. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 5:45 AM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a network storage device > > thanks Bryan and John > for the discussion. > I have done it yesterday and it worked like a charm. > > the question i have now is > how can I start that PC via LAN, and is there a way to shut it down when > the > UPS tells to shut down? > > Lembit > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bryan Carbonnell" <carbonnb at gmail.com> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:14 PM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a network storage device > > >> On 2/7/07, JWColby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: >>> >Have a read of the docs, all 8 pages, and that should give you a good >>> >idea >>> how little you really need to know. >>> >>> Isn't that what Microsoft tells Joe user about Microsoft Access? >> >> Point taken, but I dont' work for MS ;-) >> >>> >NASLite doesn't have web admin, but it does have web status monitoring. >>> >>> Hmmm... What status? Is this a Linux thing? Or the drive stuff? >> >> Drive stuff. The drive space, the drive health if they are SMART aware >> devices, etc. and server status/info. >> >> The NASLite-SMB Info share offers the following status information pages: >> . Server ? Provides information about server network settings, lists >> recent server users and displays the server (Samba) configuration >> file. >> . System ? Displays information about the server OS, uptime, load, >> CPU, memory, fixed disk drive usage and network interface status. >> . Disk-X - Displays Disk X initialization messages, hardware >> description and S.M.A.R.T. status information if applicable. Disk 1 is >> the primary (master) fixed disk >> . SYS Log ? Displays the current system messages log file. >> . SMB Log ? Displays the current SMB/CIFS Server (smbd) log file. >> . NMB Log - Displays the current NetBIOS Name Server (nmbd) log file. >> . About ? Contains general NASLite-SMB information. >> >> Here is a link to typical (their words not mine) status pages: >> http://www.serverelements.com/info/NASLite-1/Server.htm >> >>> >Yes, that's command line but it is still done remotely. >>> >>> And here we are learning Linux command line stuff. >> >> Nope. I wrote that wrong. It's a text based menu. No fancy point and >> click GUI. Its all done with the keyboard, via telnet or in front of >> the actual PC. >> >>> Bryan, I am not saying that NASLite won't do what I need. What I want >>> to >>> know before I get in there is that I will NEVER have to go do Linux >>> stuff >>> for this thing. Not finding a driver for a video card or the raid card >>> or >>> the NIC, nothing! If I ever have to do any Linux stuff then I just lost >>> whatever benefit I might have gained by using it in the first place, and >>> since I know absolutely NOTHING about Linux, I could be in trouble in a >>> hurry. >> >> Nope. AFAICT, you will NEVER have to learn Linux. Never, ever, ever >> with NASLite. It will either work out of the box with your hardware or >> it won't. Period. EOD. >> >> If it doesn't, you will need to find another solution. If it does, >> then you wont' need to upgrade anything. Now having said that, if you >> change hardware then the new hardware may not work. Just like any >> other hardware upgrade with (pick your favourite OS here) >> >>> I just have visions of weekends lost 6 months down the road because of >>> (put >>> your favorite unexplained circumstance here). XP isn't beautiful, and >>> it >>> isn't problem free, but it is a known quantity which counts for >>> something. >>> OTOH I have played the XP "where is the share that is supposed to be >>> there" >>> game so I know quite well that it isn't all roses on the XP side of the >>> house either. >> >> I can't say that you won't have that experience. But it won't be >> because of having to upgrade drivers or things like that. Like I said, >> it'll either work, and then you're off to the races, or it won't and >> you'll need to find another solution. >> >>> It sounds appealing, that is for sure. >> >> I guess the best way to tell for sure is to try it, in a non-critical >> environment/role. >> >> It may be for you, it may not. All I can say is that it sounds like it >> will fit the bill for what you need, and I have used it myself in the >> past and it worked for what I was doing. >> >> -- >> Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com >> Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well >> preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, >> shouting "What a great ride!" >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com