[05/22 08:42 AM] MediaKarben: hi -- any word on that outstanding part for the Distributer Box?
[05/22 09:56 AM] colopriority: none yet, I had nick doing follow-up last week, NCIX noted that they didn't have it in stock, and it was "special order", so its a bit vague/fuzzy at this point (as they didn't give him a firm timeline)
[05/22 09:56 AM] colopriority: I'll have him re-harass 'em this week though, that much is certain :)
[05/22 09:59 AM] MediaKarben: dang.... we're waiting on that box, because Joe wants to "bring all the boxes up simultaneously" doing some fancy rsync install thing for all our packages
[05/22 10:00 AM] colopriority: heh yeah, well everywhere we looked has it as special order, so its unlikely we're going to find our slam dunk, get it up now kinda solution unfortunately
[05/22 10:00 AM] MediaKarben: it's impossible to make that computer work without the part, right? not temporary solution possible?
[05/22 10:02 AM] colopriority: not that we could find, we looked at just sticking the 3ware into the mobo directly after removing the faceplate, but #1 - its unclear whether or not doing so is safe (as its clearly got a unique pinout setup, to convert a pci-e x4 slot to output x8 when coupled with a pci-x riser), and #2 - it didn't seem to fit either way
[05/22 10:02 AM] colopriority: and without the 3ware, you cant write to the array, so it defeats the purpose of bringing it up at all
[05/22 10:02 AM] MediaKarben: ok