Mystery solved! M3 for sure. Didn’t know about this unit. Another machine that tried. Thanks for the sleuthing Darry.

Over at r/vintagecomputers on Reddit, a user posted a pic asking “Anyone know what this thing is?” https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageComputers/comments/qgtt84/anyone_know_what_this_thing_is/ Spoiler As you can see from the link, it’s some kind of luggable unit, turned on its side. But the mystery is …

By the sounds of it you created a single array and virtual disk for each individual HHD? so basically you have no raid whatsoever and the controller is treating each physical HDD as a standard dive much like having multiple HDD's in a standard PC. If your doing this it may be just as easy to pull …

Hi You could make a single RAID0 array with all the drives and zero-fill it using DD, something like this (where sdX is the path to the RAID0 array volume): Just throwing some suggestions around, at least for the first question. Thanks for the suggestions. The method I used ended up working okay. …

Tried creating a separate array for each hard drive. The software initially allows the creation of enough virtual disks (arrays) to add one hard drive to each. But after confirming the creation of all of them, it ended up only creating one virtual disk with one drive assigned to it. I tried to …

I want accomplish two things with this IBM X3500 M2 server. I need to zero fill erase a RAID array on an IBMX3500 M2 server. The RAID array in composed of 6 individual 146gb hard drives connected in a RAID-0 configuration. I then want to set the machine up so that it can be used by another party. I …

Thanks. That is a proper chip for Coppermine 66/100/133 so you can always upgrade in the future. :thumbsup: Thanks for the confirmation on that. Nice to know should I want to attempt a 133mhz jump in the future. Your current Katmai 450MHz CPU already draws more power than most Coppermines. If you …

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Not to mention the powerdraw that the high-end PIII's throw at the VRM. Also keep in mind that you have to invest in PC133 RAM when you go for an fsb 133 cpu. Ah. Yes. Also, didn't even remember about having to get correct spec ram when jumping to fsb133. Even though PC133 is relatively cheap, I …

...update bios to either 1013A or 1014.003 Beta https://www.asus.com/supportonly/P2B-F/HelpDesk_BIOS/ ...If you find yourself becoming more interested in dos or the above cards don't live up to your expectations you can always get an ISA card for dos later down the track. Personally I keep CF/SD …

Thanks. I lucked into the motherboard at a yard sale. I did a dry run with the mobo, ram and graphics card. Got it to POST without issue. Turns out the processor is actually a P-III 450 and NOT a P-II as was told to me by the original owner. Have you had any experience with Slot-1 / Socket 370 " …

Building a Windows / 98 gaming rig. Goals: * Use gutted eMachines eTower 566 complete with infamous “Never Obsolete” sticker * Stable video card that supports DVI, VGA and composite out * Play Doom, Quake, Quake II, Blade Runner, Zork (and other text adventures). * Pentium III * SSD hard drive * …