[ntp:hackers] Mort the frog

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Tue Jun 27 14:12:21 UTC 2006


Todd,

Yes, it would be good to be Different. Machine room rack space is indeed 
a premium and would be much better suited for 1U hardware. We actually 
have a lot of machines here, most devoted to some research project and 
some outliving their usefulness. I might be able to comandeer one or 
more of these. Meanwhile, compact machines would be most useful.

The RISC machine porkypine was a very old Digital machine; the HP 
machine had hardware problems and died. The Alpha twins were also very 
old and not worth salvaging. The younger Alpha twins will live on in 
FreeBSD or Linux. The IPCs have long since died. Even if the hardware 
could be repairable, the SunOS 4.1.3 kernel media has long since 
expired. Besides, it took half an hour to get past the configure 
scripts. I managed to snag two Dell Precision 370 systems, which are 
really nice and may be able to snag another. These replace some really 
ornery old machines and make it much easier to support them.

Dave

todd glassey wrote:

> BLU - just a question as this would have to be worked out between You 
> Solar
> Guys and Gals, and Harlan and Big Dave here...
>
> So lets ask the first question... does it makes sense and would you and
> Rainer take over management of the SOLARIS systems - this will allow 
> you to
> always have the best of the best available... and would let Dave downsize.
>
> I also think that Dave needs some new hardware and unless someone has an
> objection, if you generate a shopping list for me I will spend some time
> seeing what I can get donated to the project... Specially newer 
> smaller (1U
> or blade) type systems.
>
> Todd Glassey
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harlan Stenn" <stenn at ntp.isc.org>
> To: "David L. Mills" <mills at udel.edu>
> Cc: <hackers at ntp.org>; <Peter_Losher at isc.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 9:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [ntp:hackers] Mort the frog
>
>
>> Dave,
>>
>>> I'm being booted out of my rather oversized lab and have room for only a
>>> few machines in the machine room. I'm moving two machines home, making
>>> the total eight are available for test. The IPC, RISC, Alpha and HP
>>> machines will go, leaving only FreeBSD rackety and Solaris pogo,
>>> bridgeport, baldwin and malarky. I have a choice of Intel or Alpha to
>>> run Linux. Which should it be?
>>
>> I'd vote for Alpha, as it is Different, and an equivalent argument can
>> be made for using Intel.
>>
>> How possible/difficult would it be to move the IPC, RISC (which risc is
>> it?), Alpha, and HP elsewhere?
>>
>>> Does anybody use a serial MUX in FreeBSD to hook up machine consoles for
>>> remote access? I've used a serial MUX in Linux, but don't know of a
>>> generic driver. The MUX I have is a 4-port SIIG using standard UART
>>
> chips.
>
>> If this is the one in albert, there was a time when albert ran FreeBSD
>> and we used that same serial card for serial console access under
>> FreeBSD.
>>
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