[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge gets first dibs - free server!

[Ryan Rawson]

How can one say no? Unless it needs tri-phase power...

-ryan

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
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>> Also allows for hot-swappable CPUs!
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>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Michael Klopot <effinnay at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Up for grabs:
>> >
>> > A Sun Enterprise 4500 Server, a 14-way parallel vintage (from 2001)
>> > redundant beast, mainstay of early eCommerce.
>> > Upgradeable to 28 gigs RAM and 14 CPUs! Can hold four redundant power
>> > supplies!
>> > Also comes with a SCSI drive array (we might have to keep the drives)
>> > with a fiberoptic connector between the server and the array.
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> It would be nice to be able to use that box full of new u320 SCA SCSI drives
> on the back shelves.
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> And thus to have a nice RAID redundant/ fail-safe system of storage.
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> Not sure how well supported the hardware is by recent OS versions (Solaris
> or Linux or BSD are possibilities)
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> Anyway I was going to complain I feel starved at NB for open (free or
> unused) hardware in working condition to experiment with. Especially
> anything even slightly exotic like this (anything but Pentium please). It
> would be nice to have a hotplug boot drive I could put my name on to play
> with...
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> Brian
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>> > Physically only about twice as big as a desktop computer case.
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>> > It runs Solaris and is fully functional. Powers on with a key, similar
>> > to a car ignition!
>> >
>> > Must go in the next few days!
>> >
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