tlug: Re: TLUG Server (Hardware)

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Hi Scott, 
just a little about prices:
Maxtor 88400D in Akihabara 42781 yen=$335.01
with 127.7 yen/$ 
So no big difference

Marcus
Scott Stone writes:
 > 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.
 > 
 > --------------------------------------------------
 > Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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 > Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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 > 
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Next TLUG Nomikai: 11 March Wed 1998 Tengu TokyoEkiMae 19:30
Chuo-ku, Kyobashi 1-1-6, EchiZenYa Bld. B1/B2 03-3275-3691
Next TLUG Meeting: 11 April 1998 Saturday, Tokyo Station
Featuring Tague Griffith of Netscape i18n talking on source code
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