tlug: Re: TLUG Server (Hardware)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, John Little wrote:

>    Okay folks. I've been looking at the server hardware again, so
>    here's an update.
> 
>    First, the reboot "error" is gone. It was simply a misconfigured
> 
>    I also remembered that there was a second RAID controller, so we now
>    have two controllers and slots for eight 3.5" disks. The reason this
>    machine came my way to begin with was becasue a couple of the disks
>    died. Since then, a couple more have died. We now only have four
>    210MB IDE drives available, meaning that if we use the RAID
>    mirroring capability we can only configure a maximum logical drive
>    size of 420MB (about enough for a Linux install, but not nearly
>    enough for a server).

>    this sound reasonable? Would anyone with Compaq experience like to
>    suggest another method?
> 
>    The memory boards are those silly, proprietary Compaq ones, with
>    SIMM modules which attach to 50-pin connectors (quite unlike
>    anything anyone else uses). There's 32MB of memory already in the

Let's not use this machine.  Proprietary ram slots are a bitch.  Let's get
something more standard that takes standard hardware.

As for IDE disks, if you can wait for shipping, I can get 8.4GB Maxtor
Ultra-DMA EIDE drives for $332 (yeah, $332 for 8.4 gigabytes!).  I can get
smaller ones for less, of course.  Has to be shipped from the USA, of
course, but... I dare you to find a drive half that size for that price in
Japan.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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