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------------------Update Apr 13th 2024---------
Conducted testing of Motherboard/CPU components before case arrival and installation. All tested good to go .
I used the GTX10XX Geforce GPU for...

I did find this in the correct manual.. I originally down loaded the manual for the Asus X99-A II , the correct one is Asus X99-A ......
"M.2 Support*
This motherboard features the M.2 slot, which...

In my haste, I completely forgot /confused with a different Asus board that the Asus X99-A and I7-5900K that I have obtained / ordered doesn't come with a onboard graphics... oops lol NP.
I'm...

yeah the thing I did not cover is the budget ($300.00 a month)... that will determine how soon this will take effect to get the server somewhat even close to completion.
The power supply...

Yes when I brought up the Media Server, mine it is it's own machine having it's own files / CPU / GPU / ram locally serving the TV only.

It was only for a comparison vs just serving files as...

I've pretty much given up on the Xeon processors only basically because I don't know enough about them, and been going the route of i7-5930K or later gen. in my search, and the processors I'm...

been deeply researching the processor you mentioned and it really stands out 6 cores....
Looking over the Motherboards I noticed none have onboard video. This caused me to ponder something.
I...

OK, then LOL....... kinda what I thought on the 5th Gen i7 vs the Xeon 2600 series.

In my searches found a real good deal (auction) on a Intel Xeon E-2697 v2 Dell T7610 that supports two CPU's,...

Dug a little deeper into this board before fully committing although it's the correct socket doesn't support the i7, but supports the Xeon E5-1600 or the Xeon E5-2600 (4-8 cores)
Not sure how the...

Yes, very interested in the open zfs,RAIDZ and Z2 and really I don't know enough to actually ask good questions (yet).

But from what little I have read thus far it looks very promising.

Back...

I really Like the idea of the 5th Gen i7 alot......
While I have not read all the way through your last two post....
I re-read where you wrote : could go on for pages... Even write your a book on...

Looking over your post and a bit of searching most of the MB's I'm seeing are using that same chipset H61.

The Mainboard I'll be pulling out of that case is a Mini-ATX. Correction Micro-ATX.
...

Looking over your post and a bit of searching most of the MB's I'm seeing are using that same chipset H61.

The Mainboard I'll be pulling out of that case is a Mini-ATX.

Now if I go to the 4th...

Sorry for my delay in posting

I obtained the usb wireless device to use when the media server (or my NFS) was disconnected from a wired connection.
It was/is a nice to have item not required....

This is kind of Hardware based question based. As it deals with the configuration of the server I thought this would be the best place for this to land.

Raid configuration will be ZFS Raidz in...

that returns


mike@bastion:~$ sudo dmesg | grep 8852
[sudo] password for mike:
[ 0.208852] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 28.996885] 8852au: loading out-of-tree...

No I didn't reboot did not even think about doing that.




mike@bastion:~$ lsmod | grep 8852au
8852au 13557760 0
cfg80211 974848 1 8852au

mike@bastion:~$...

OK got the driver to compile
ran lsusb and seen the adapter on the usb port I also noticed that the wifi powersave was set at 3 I changed it to 2 (sudo nano...

still no success
even though I thought I found the answer being my gcc version being set at 11 vs 12.
Updated the gcc to 12 and it did get closer to installing.
I some how deleted my earlier post...

I noticed some packages was not installed so I installed them re-ran the wireless info txt

######### wireless info START ##########

Report from: 19 Mar 2024 07:06 CDT -0500

Booted last: 19...

Wireless Info txt


########## wireless info START ##########

Report from: 19 Mar 2024 06:51 CDT -0500

Booted last: 19 Mar 2024 00:00 CDT -0500

Script from: 25 Jan 2020 03:34 UTC +0000

found this thread because I had obtained one of these expecting it to work when I was setting up a headless server it didn't. with finding this thread my hopes soared.
so I attempted to install the...

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OK everything seems to be finish


mike@bastion:~$ sudo resize2fs -p /dev/md0
resize2fs 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
Resizing the filesystem on /dev/md0 to 610316800 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on...

Failed sdb1 , hot removed, then zeroed the super blocks


mike@bastion:~$ sudo mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdb1
mdadm: set /dev/sdb1 faulty in /dev/md0
mike@bastion:~$ sudo mdadm /dev/md0...