[tech] Switches and hubs...

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 04:19:55PM +0800, Simon Fryer wrote:
[...]
> And the Powerboard Overkill is different from current UCC setup in which way 
> exactly! :-) 

<grin> Well.. we've probably already got Too Many powerboards, but still
very few actual free sockets. When things get shuffled it's usually
hard to find a suitable point and yes we have ended up with power cables
straddling the racks, for example, which is really... sub-optimal.

If you have plenty of free sockets everywhere you might want a machine,
you can avoid some of the uglier "temporary" solutions.

> About the clamp meter thingy... I think I put the power cable suitable for 
> a clamp meter on starfish. Has anyone actually measured the power consuption 
> yet? 

Doubt it.

[...]
>    - Securing of erwin to something solid so it is no longer in the machine 
> 		room.

Ah, that's important. Ian's got some of the details for that but basically
we were going to get a quote for the cables from CS and anywhere else
we're interested in, and start attaching things to benches and so on.
This'll take a bit of money.

>    - replacement of the network card in Manta
> 
>   - reracking merman and debugging the serial problems with the new CPU card.

Yes, these are long overdue.

Nick.

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