HDD activity LEDs for fileserver
So I have a fileserver, I recently upgraded it with 2 250GB WD SATA 150 Raid Edition drives and I had to add a Promise PCI SATA controller. It also has an IDE controller on it and I have an older 250GB IDE WD 2500JB hooked up to that. I then have the three drives LVM in Fedora Core linux for a total of 700 GB usable space. Anyway the Promise controller has headers for LED activity lights. I thought it would be cool to hook these up and put them on the case somewhere so I got some hookup wire and soldered em up. Here is the result, I think it looks pretty cool.
A picture:
http://setsuka.homeunix.org:88/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=133
short mpeg video: (give them time to load)
http://setsuka.homeunix.org:88/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=130
longer video:
http://setsuka.homeunix.org:88/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=127
Those are actually hosted on the fileserver, I use it for some web apps too.
It's an old gateway PIII 800MHz with 512MB PC-133, it works fine as a samba/NFS server though ;-)
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Nicely done man. I take it you're using just JBOD RAID, or is it actually striping across the three?
I'm not using RAID at all, it's LVM, Logical Volume Management. It's a feature of Linux mainly used so you can dynamically alter the size of partitions and make use of a bunch of smaller drives. I have it setup so it just makes one big partition out of my 3 250GB drives.. so if one dies, I loose it all, but meh, they are fairly new ;-)
edit: haha after reading the definition of JBOD, (Just a Bunch of Disks) I can now say, yes it's basically JBOD lol, just not using any sort of RAID spec to do it.
Yeah, JBOD is pretty much the same as LVM.
I meant to ask, how did you setup Gallery2 to do movies? I've got a setup at nateftp.dyndns.org/gallery2, but I don't think I've got movies enabled. It'd be pretty neat to have that for the upcoming site updates.
Hey, where's my shirt too!
haha, ya JBOD is cool. I had to install ffmpeg to get movies to work with gallery properly, then in the site admin section you have to check the modules and you'll see ffmpeg. Go there and specify the path to it, on my system it was /usr/bin/ffmpeg then enable it and it should work. BTW I forgot about the shirt yesterday obviously. I'm about to call you since you are probably off work ;-)