Given how much sweat Martin has put into a Sparc distro, this would be
the strangest time to ditch Sparc. Someone is putting time into doing something
with it so I think we should see where it leads.
Regards
John G
On 29/01/2013, at 9:19 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Hi Volker, Garrett!
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Volker A. Brandt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> etc. etc. I also wish Martin would not get so upset, but that's the
>> way he is. :-)
>
>
> Had you paid that price in life, you or any other reasonable person
> would react the same way, in such a situation.
> Imagine you built a house, stone by stone, w/o having any time for
> making a living because of it.
> And 1 day before you intend to celebrate the key-exchange, the ones
> that you were building it for say, the want a swimming pool and the
> house is in their way.
> You stay relaxed?
>
>
> Garrett: I respond to the rest of your mail and also the older ones asap.
> Just now: I can donate some of my boxes for the project.
> Especially usable: V490 with 8 1500MHz 16MB vcores and 24GB mem plus
> SAS connected external SATA.
> And a T1000.
> The problem is only? Why pays the electricity bills and the bandwith?
> Can also give you a SB2000 Dual1.2GHz 8GB, with SAS.
>
>
> How do I suddenly get all these SAS cards from?
> Well, those are LSISAS-3080X-HP(!) that you can flash FCodes in.
> After a hack to /etc/driver_aliases they attach also, after the FW
> flash. And they support 8 internal (can wire them out 1 meter) SATA
> disks of up to 2TB (or larger, but then truncated to 2047GB).
>
> Nowadays one gets them for 5$ per unit!
>
>
> Also can donate SB1500 Red, SB2500 Red.
>
> I wasn't aware this problem existed, because be definition I don't
> read email if the workload is as hopelessly huge, as it was.
>
> Volker: Thanks again for the 200EUR
>
> %martin
>
>
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