http://www.prestonlee.com/2007/06/02/the-1000-usd-2tb-opensolaris-file-server/ Technologist, businessman and entrepreneur. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:21:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.prestonlee.com/2007/06/02/the-1000-usd-2tb-opensolaris-file-server/comment-page-1/#comment-234 PrestonLee.com » Solaris 10 x64: Get Your Sound Card Working Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:18:51 +0000 http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/118#comment-234 [...] When I built the $1000, 2TB file server, the on-board nVidia HD audio support of the Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard didn’t work out of the box. It’s a trivial fix using the recently open sourced OSS drivers from 4Front Technologies. (I also tested a Creative Audigy 2 PCI sound card using these drivers under Solaris 10 11/06, and the playback worked just as well.) [...] [...] When I built the $1000, 2TB file server, the on-board nVidia HD audio support of the Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard didn’t work out of the box. It’s a trivial fix using the recently open sourced OSS drivers from 4Front Technologies. (I also tested a Creative Audigy 2 PCI sound card using these drivers under Solaris 10 11/06, and the playback worked just as well.) [...]

]]> http://www.prestonlee.com/2007/06/02/the-1000-usd-2tb-opensolaris-file-server/comment-page-1/#comment-233 PrestonLee.com » OpenSolaris ZFS vs. Linux ext3 RAID5 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:12:22 +0000 http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/118#comment-233 [...] Preston Says: I asked Dan McClary for a big favor recently: use his general UNIX knowledge and graduate-level statistics voodoo to produce a report highlighting performance differences between two different OS and file system configurations on a common, COTS hardware platform. The following analysis is his work, reformatted to fit your screen. You may download the PDF, HTML, graphs and original TeX source here. [...] [...] Preston Says: I asked Dan McClary for a big favor recently: use his general UNIX knowledge and graduate-level statistics voodoo to produce a report highlighting performance differences between two different OS and file system configurations on a common, COTS hardware platform. The following analysis is his work, reformatted to fit your screen. You may download the PDF, HTML, graphs and original TeX source here. [...]

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