Quoting Shlomi Fish, wwhhoo ppoosstteedd mme ttwwiiccee from the post of Mon, 16 Dec: > I want a replacement for the current array of UW SCSI disks. Several > larger internal ones _instead_ of the ones we have now.
aha.. and what happens to the existing disks? can we sell them? donate them? do we return them? will they win us a discount on the new disks? no, I thought not. makes no sense to throw them out. at their age Ligad has nothing to do with them. it's a waste to do anything with them other than use them. > > as long as we can upgrade the box to Debian �nd not to Sun Linux, I'll > > be happy :) > > I don't think they are going to mandate the distro we use here. they need a reason to give us money at random, advertising their activities in the linux arena is a very possible request. > Ligad were the ones who brought us the computer in the first place, and we > should contact them for upgrading its hardware. But we'll need someone to > sponsor this upgrade. that's why I'm thinking this is so messy. I prefer to start with a fresh machine which won't be made up of donations from separate entities. furthermore, the Ligad Server has a very questionable status, seeing that it was never recieved by a legal body or given a reciept for. a fresh generic machine with two 120 gig IDE disks will be roughly $800, less than the price of a single 80 gig UWSCSI disk, not to mention an external RAID chasis before even a single disk is installed. therefore, even changing the disks in the server makes no sense. a new server also gives us another option - afterall Actcom is not the only ISP in Israel and people often asked us about mirrors on other sides of the IIX. we could ask at Barak, Bezeqint and other places. > You mean a completely different server? yup. -- Clustered architect Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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