Well, this server might not last me too long.
It seems that my NAS software of choice, openfiler, is going to 64-bit only on the next release. My server board, the Intel SE7501WV2, apparently will not do 64-bit as it's documentation claims it will. According to someone at Intel, NONE of their 533 FSB bus Xeons will do 64-bit; that apparently started with the 800 FSB units. So now I have a quandary. The original 9550 controller I purchased through eBay turned out to be defective. I had just ordered another one and gotten it installed when I found out about the 32/64 problem. I will be able to transplant the controller and drives to another (non PCI-X) system as a 32-bit controller and still have a 64-bit system with 32-bit disk access, or I would purchase another controller and re-do the array as 64-bit. The problem will be to offload all the data to temporary storage while I do it. Oh, well...