[rescue] WHEE! garbage machine is alive and kicking.

[Andrew Weiss]

OK after various frustrations last night and a defective CD-ROM and 
floppy disk (two floppies actually but one just needed a tightening of 
the head screw) I am now the proud owner of a big ball of NFS (TM)

This is the Gateway NS-8000 I found in the garbage on 42nd street... 
after cleaning the filthy insides and finding a nice NT4 with easy to 
guess password and doing some research for the fun of it I did the 
following (original config follows then current config)

Orig:
Pentium II 233
128 MB ECC RAM
Telepath X2 56K Modem
3com 3c905 10/100
4GB Seagate Barracuda
Floppy
SCSI CD-ROM Plextor PX32
Conner TR4 tape
Windows NT 4 + Small Business Server

Now:
Dual Pentium II 333
128 MB ECC RAM
3com 3c905 10/100
HP Netraid 3si with 32MB cache
3 x 18 GB Seagate Barracudas in the RAID cage (RAID 5) with cardboard 
separators (tried to make my own sheet metal constructions and it just 
wasn't working so I made a cardboard tube stuck it on the bottom... 
pushed the first drive onto the connector... pushed the next one on and 
placed two flat pieces of cardboard in between it and the first drive 
to align them... repeat... I was going to have 4 18's and I may do 
this, I haven't decided yet (Bought 5 drives and wanted to use the 5th 
as a spare i.e. use it somewhere else where the data was unimportant 
and pull it if I had a failure, but 2 are DOA so I'm going to arrange 
to exchange them with the seller; HDOUTLET)
Floppy
IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM FX-32 (a good drive and bootable unlike the other 
one; though probably cause it was bad)
Conner TR4 tape
FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 with a custom kernel... machine's hostname is chef... 
the kernel is LOVEGRAVY

Man this thing is fast... esp I/O.
Andrew