[HCoop-Discuss] hardware questions

[Michael Olson]

Adam Megacz <megacz at hcoop.net> writes:

> Yes, same chassis but older internals.  I'll get precise specs
> tomorrow, but I think it's a 450mhz USparc-3 with twin IDE drives
> (currently empty bays; I'll rummage around for some drives).  I think
> it has a gig of ram.  I was running linux on it last time I used it.
>
> I'll be quite frank about this: it's very slow compared to deleuze.
> But it's small (1U), rackmountable, very reliable, and has a LOM port.
> Most importantly, it's available immediately: just tell me what
> address to ship it to and what IP to preconfigure it with.

I've administered machines with a slightly slower Sparc CPU before, and
they were reasonably easy to deal with remotely.  450MHz really feels
like more with the Sparc processor, and they're 64-bit.  A gig of RAM
definitely goes a long way to making it usable -- the ones I had chugged
along with only 256MB.  So I think we could make good use of it.  I'm in
favor of having the machine added to our line-up (provided we have a
hard drive or two in them).  Thanks for being willing to donate these!

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