hahahahaha... "disappointingly easy" somehow doesn't come to my mind when it is easy. :)
Well I got it home today. My wife was most displeased. She is threatening to send me out to the garage with all my "junk". <BG> It is pretty derned big! about 3 feet tall. It has 4 processors, they all work. 1 gig of ram, 10 4 gig drives and get this. It has two DPT raid controllers! Another 2740 to run the cdrom drive. Apparently it is old enough that it wont' boot to the cdrom, but hey, for free I'm more than happy to boot with floppy!! :) I'm so excited. This is great! Now to find the time to set it up. I'm in the middle of building a garage. The one I'm going to be exciled to probably. hahaha civileme wrote: > lorne wrote: > >> I just found out that I won a 4 processor 200mhz pentium Pro server >> with 1 gig of ram in it.We had some old equipment we are phasing out >> at work and we drew straws who gets what. >> >> Old, but more than sufficient for my playing around. I've never >> looked into mult processing with Linux. I know it is possible. Is it >> possible with Mandrake? It is an old ALR, so dunno about other >> compatibility issues. I know it has 1 or 2 raid controllers in it. >> DTP or something like that I hear. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to >> http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > Sounds like a beastly server or multiprocessing machine or a super > node for a supercomputing cluster. > > I found two Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 series at a local > Charity store which had been picked by thieves, and on the day of the > month when everything was 50% off I bought both. One had a dead mobo > and was missing the CD and had 128M RAM. The other had a dead power > supply and was missing the SCSI HDD and had 32Mb of RAM. Between them > I picked up working Matrox Mystique 220 and an old ELSA 3D PCI card. > One processor was loose in one case anfd the working Mobo had the > processor 1 ZIF zocket lever missing. > > I found two PPro 200 512K cache matched step processors and put them > in, jammong the faulty ZIF socket shut, put together one working > machine with an IDE, a SCSI-3 drive and a DVD (turned out the CD was a > DVD) drive, dropped in Mandrake 8.2 installed and did not even get > asked if I wanted the UP or SMP kernel. I added a UP boot later so I > can run on one processor in case my technique of closing the damage > ZIF socket proves faulty, but it came up with SMP kernel from the > install and was happily running both processors. My RAID was a > software RAID0 between the SCSI-3 and an IDE drive, just to see if I > could stress the comp and its filesystems. > > Everything is still working and the speed is better than my K6-2 350. > > Hmph! It was disappointingly easy. > > Civileme > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
