On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:46:55PM +0100, Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. wrote:
I'm in the process of building a small Debian GNU/Linux based cluster using old machines. It's something I always been interested in doing.
I've already got the boxes, some motherboard/cpus with Pentium chips on them, and the NICs. The only thing missing are the hard disks.
Has anyone got one or more they no longer need? I've managed to build the cluster for free so far, and hope to finish it in the same manner. I'd prefer sizes between 500MB and 2GB.
So, if you can help, please email me. Perhaps you could bring something along to the kit meeting at UEA on Sunday?
I have some 600Mb SCSI drives, are they any use? I also have a 2Gb drive I think which may be SCSI or IDE, not sure which. For the SCSI drives I can probably dig out an NCR/Symbios SCSI card too.
Only trouble is that I'm not coming along to the meet, I could stick them in a jiffy bag and post them, if they die it's no great loss!