[tech] hdd4mako

[Simon Fryer]

Bingle

> A while ago Ben Rampling tapped:

> > The suggestion was to stick a couple of the small SCSI drives from the
> > IBM gear into it with a SCSI card from Simon. (or I have some bootable
> > 8 bit TMC-850's in a pinch) They should be in the clubroom.
> 
> Oh, I thought we actually had another solution rather than another "fuck off 
> and let us spend money on beer". So we're going to switch to a set of drives
> that we're not even sure work, let alone sure if they're reliable? Aren't you
> tired of the way Committee is working, too, Nick? :)

They are not the drives I had in mind. There are a couple of drives sitting
above utu in the UCC. Using a couple of them (You only need 400Mb so there 
should not be much problem) set up with / and swap on one disk and /usr on the
other then there should not be much of a problem. Richard was running one of the
drives with the SCSI controller I am bringing in on a FreeBSD box so there 
should not be any issues. 

It is not a case of UCC committee  not spending money but finding an optimal
solution to the problem. The drives are there - I am very supprised that you
could not find them, which can provide a solution to your problem. 

> > I'm still in favour of picking up one or two new EIDE drives, but it
> > doesn't seem vitally urgent.
> 
> It is urgent, because come Friday evening, Mako won't have a drive.

So, what services is Mako running that can not be transfered to another UCC
machine? FMS? Web serving? 

See Ya
Simon

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