Hi Folks I have shelved the idea of building my time server with a single board PC for the time being - putting together a case, PSU, etc., and doing an install with no monitor (would have to make an adapter) is just too much like hard work.
I have a choice of a couple of Ultrasparc boxes that I can use that aren't doing much at present. My first choice is my Sun Blade 100 as it is small, quiet, doesn't use much power and also has enough disc on it to take backups from my main server. Second choice is based on a sun AXi OEM motherboard. This only takes SCSI discs (I don't have any large ones floating around) and has no USB so an external disc for backups might not be easy to implement unless OpenBSD happens to have support for add-on USB PCI cards. The potential problem with the Blade is that it has absolutely lousy timekeeping. If run without NTPD, it will drift minutes out in a day. I am advised that this is a hardware issue specific to that model. I believe that there is a patch to compensate for this in Solaris, but it's seriously bad under Linux. The question is this - does it matter? If I am running NTPD and feeding in NMEA+PPS, is the native timekeeping (or lack of) an issue? Whichever box gets the job, it will be running OpenBSD. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
