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?
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"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." - The Joker in Alan Moore's The Killing Joke
I'll have a hunt around but to be honest most drives that small we get in are destroyed as it just isn't worth our time and effort to do effective data destruction on them.
I do have a large quantity of SCSI drives...part of a pair of DEC Alpha 1000 servers that I have taken in for data destruction. They and the servers they belong to will be available once I have finished playing with OpenVMS and perhaps had a quick poke around Tru64.
In fact I was thinking of bringing one of them to the next kit meet (sadly I have just found out that I won't be making it to the meet this Sunday) to see if we can get Debian running on it.
On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:46, 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?
Just looked around. I've got a 400Mb Maxtor 7420AV and a 13Gb Western Digital 136AA hanging around. I can't get to the UEA on Sunday, but if you want them you can come and collect them. E-mail me off list if interested.
Matt
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!
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:42:19AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
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!
JOOI why are so many of you not coming to the meet? Is it because we smell? are sundays bad? is the UEA in the wrong place? have you something far better and more interesting to do (like walk the dog, wash the car, and paint the windows?)?
It would be nice to know the reasons so in future if we have kit meets we can try and accomodate more people (that is if you actually want to come to the meets!).
Thanks Adam
On Friday 21 October 2005 10:01, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:42:19AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
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!
JOOI why are so many of you not coming to the meet? Is it because we smell? are sundays bad? is the UEA in the wrong place? have you something far better and more interesting to do (like walk the dog, wash the car, and paint the windows?)?
It would be nice to know the reasons so in future if we have kit meets we can try and accomodate more people (that is if you actually want to come to the meets!).
Personally, although I live in Norwich and UEA is not that far from me, it's because I have to work. I run my own business and have a deadline coming up for my current project so I'm burning the candle at both ends at the moment.
Matt
JOOI why are so many of you not coming to the meet? Is it because we smell? are sundays bad? is the UEA in the wrong place? have you something far better and more interesting to do (like walk the dog, wash the car, and paint the windows?)?
It would be nice to know the reasons so in future if we have kit meets we can try and accomodate more people (that is if you actually want to come to the meets!).
Let me just take this oportunity to offer lifts etc for the south side of norwich if anyone needs it. I believe what happend last time was gear -> kitmeet -> take gear home -> drinks (so we dont have kit in car whereever the drinks lead us)...
JT
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:01:07AM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:42:19AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
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!
JOOI why are so many of you not coming to the meet? Is it because we smell? are sundays bad? is the UEA in the wrong place? have you something far better and more interesting to do (like walk the dog, wash the car, and paint the windows?)?
It would be nice to know the reasons so in future if we have kit meets we can try and accomodate more people (that is if you actually want to come to the meets!).
For me one of the main reasons is simply that it's a long way, I live in Newbourne, near Felixstowe, which is a fair old way from Norwich. I do also have other things to do like ride horses which, at this time of the year, is a week-ends only activity.
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:01 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
JOOI why are so many of you not coming to the meet? Is it because we smell? are sundays bad? is the UEA in the wrong place? have you something far better and more interesting to do (like walk the dog, wash the car, and paint the windows?)?
Well for me at least, I really wanted to make it and up until about 3 days ago thought that I would be coming. Sadly my girlfriend arranged for us to go to a friends for Sunday dinner, and due to the two large Alpha servers I dumped in the living room the other day, I dare not try to push my luck further and try to get out of it.
Specifically I have some surplus kit kicking around, some of which I was hoping to rid myself of at the meet.
The UEA is a bit of a drive for me from Bury St Edmunds, but I don't really mind that.
Can anyone explain what this means please?
kernel: i2c-amd756: SMBus collision!
I know it's the main board temperature sensing stuff but does it mean it's failing?
This is the second time it's happened. A reboot cured it last time until now.
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
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