[CDBUG-talk] NAS hardware - MaxAttach 3000

[Mark Hutchinson]

Oh, and a place to solder a PCI header onto the board. All the support glue
seems to be on the board, that was unexpected to see.

Mark
 

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> Mark Hutchinson
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 9:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CDBUG-talk] NAS hardware - MaxAttach 3000
> 
> Yep, one of the ways I had to use to fix it was to disconnect 
> a drive and wipe it completely. No floppy header, but there 
> are four 2x5 pin headers, one with a blue shroud, and the 
> other three are shroudless. IIRC, someone had listed that it 
> the shrouded one was a COM port. I assume there are two usb 
> headers, and one more COM port there.
> 
> There is also a 1x8 pin header that may be the LCD display 
> header connector for the MAX 4000 model (more fancy, 1U 
> mountable, 4 drive version). If I could find 4 2.5" drives 
> that were worth the while, I might be tempted to try and get 
> four drives mounted and see if RAID5 is an option. Definately 
> not enough room in the case for four 3.5" drives.
> 
> I'm thinking that it would be easier to pull the drive and 
> put in another system to upgrade the OS. Or at least to load 
> FTP on it if it's not there already...
> 
> Mark
>  
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Muldoon [mailto:doon at inoc.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 6:43 PM
> > To: Mark Hutchinson
> > Cc: cdbug-talk at lists.nycbug.org
> > Subject: Re: [CDBUG-talk] NAS hardware - MaxAttach 3000
> > 
> > On Feb 10, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > So, basically an old Pentium TX-chipset Mobo with two hard
> > drives on
> > > two channels, running with 32 Megs of memory. The board
> > itself can use
> > > upto 128 Megs (am reading that it will take a 256 Meg
> > SODIMM, but only
> > > show 128 Megs).
> > 
> > Looks pretty standard..  have you taken it apart ?  Does 
> the mobo have 
> > a header to hook up a floppy drive? Perhaps could use that to boot 
> > from a floppy and run a bit newer version of the OS. Another option 
> > might be to take a drive out, install it in another 
> computer and get a 
> > base OS on there and play from there.
> > 
> > -patrick
> > 
> > 
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