Topic: new server slow install (SOLVED)

[sal1504]

first i am not sure if this is the proper place to post this, if it is not the right place, sorry. i am testing out some new hardware for possible future server installations and the install is running very slow. Hardware configuration is as follows:

1. Supermicro X7SBL-LN2 Motherboard with Intel 3200 Chipset and Intel ICH9
2. Intel XEON 3040 Quad Core Processor
3. 4gb DDR2-667 memory chips
4. 4 - Western Digital Cavair SE SATAII 250gb 3gb/s 8mb hard drives jumpered to 150mb/s (software Raid 5 with SME)
5. SATA DVDRW Optical Drive
6. SMEServer 7.3

Setup and install of SME seemed to run ok, but after reboot and bootup for first time (prior to configuration) the software sits at creating quota files for a very long time. It has been at this spot for over 2 hours. Is this a normal amount of time to create these file levels. I have other file servers (not XEON based) with the same hard drives and memory size that do not "stall" at this point of the installation. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Once again sorry if this is posted in the wrong location.

[pfloor]

sal1504,

You have marked this as (SOLVED) but provide no explanation of how you solved it.  It may be helpful to others in the future if you post what you did to solve your problem.

[sal1504]

sorry about that. on this Supermicro motherboard you have three choices on setting up the sata hard drives. The first is just as standard drives. The second as a raid using Intel ICH9 and the third using an Adaptec code set for a raid configuration. I had used the default settings, which was for standard sata drives, once I set the controller to the ICH9 raid and let SMEServer setup the software raid everything runs great. This is a GREAT motherboard for SME. It has six sata ports on the motherboard so you can have six sata devices. The one down side is that the is NO IDE port so you have to use one of the sata ports for a optical drive. The XEON 3040 Quad Core cpu is the entry level (1.86ghz) processor so you can increase performance if you want to spend the money on a faster processor. It will also handle up to 8gb of Ram.