Interesting things have been happening on the server front. I have a 160gb hard-drive that I pulled from my standard Windows machine. It is a SATA drive and the little server box (an ASUS Terminator C3) has two SATA ports.
Too make a very long story short:
After much fiddling around, the box will not boot form the SATA and actually does not work correctly with the SATA in. My theory is that it just needs a BIOS flash and all of that will disappear. But, to be honest, I don't have a floppy disk laying around to do the flash. So, IDE it is.
I have 2 IDE drives in it right now, a 160gb Samsung, and an old 40gb Western Digital. As I type, I am attempting to repair an installation of Ubuntu server 7.04 that, no matter how many times I install it, will not boot up correctly. So, as the system diagnostic runs, I am also downloading Ubuntu server 6.10 to see if the older version will work for it better.
All in all, while the cost isn't huge, I don't have a lot of money to waste in general. This thing has taken more money and time than I had anticipated. Hopefully that trend stops soon.
I'll report back when I have more.
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Wow dude, it sounds like you're really competent with the tech stuff now! I'm impressed. Good luck with the Apple gig and everything. What are you thinking about using the NAS for?
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