On Sunday, December 12, 2004, at 03:59 PM, Anand Keathley wrote:
Thanks to both Clark Martin and Jack Russell for the information and encourgment. I'm really excited about the possiblities here. After reading Clarks last message I more carefully read the Apple document, "L301323A_XserveG5_TO.pdf." I'm not familiar with "headless" Macs.
"headless" in this context means running without a monitor attached, which is common for servers.
(Know a good place for computer definitions?) But after reading the PDF and some pages in LEM, I think Clark is saying servers are not designed to directly use monitors?
Well, in a more general sense, servers aren't designed to be used as desktop computers, so they're physically not laid out in the most convenient fashion for that. The Xserve does not have built-in video. They're designed to be managed remotely.
However, as Clark also pointed out, the G5 X-server can use a VGA video card. My guess is that it would need to use one of the 2 PCI-X slots. Is that correct Clark? If true it could not use a standard video card so an AGP card would not work. Or would it? Anyone know more please?
Hey, just go to apple and look up the specs on the G5 servers: <http://www.apple.com/xserve/specs.html> Two PCI slots, no AGP.
And what about sound output? As far as I can tell there are just the 2 PCI-X slots which run at 133MHz if one is used or at 100MHz if both are used. So, if one slot uses a video card the other would be for a sound card. Or maybe one of the firewire outputs could use an external sound card?
I doubt it, and I've never heard of an external firewire sound output. You could probably hand a Griffin iMic off a USB port.
Ethernet. The Apple document says there are two ethernet sockets on the mother board. Can those be used directly or does one need to use the optional PCI-X card?
Yes.
As a build to order option one can add a Combo drive. Does it need to be something specific?
Combo drive is a CD-R/RW-DVD-ROM drive, as it says on the specs page.
The Cluster server I'm looking at comes standard with a 80GB ATA hard drive. It is supposed to be able to handle up to two more. Do they need to be anything unusual?
Read the specs page. they're SATA drives. Any SATA drives will work.
If this is not being used as a server but just as a normal G5, does it need a server OS or can one load any standard version of 10.3?
I'm not sure, call Apple and ask. But at this point, I have to ask why you're going this route instead of just getting a G5 tower system?
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