[TriLUG] Free Sun Ultra 5 for TriLUG

[Jason Tower]

gotcha.  better make sure the sun box will recognize the large hard drive - 
i've encountered several older systems that won't boot/recognize disks larger 
than 32GB due to BIOS limitations.  i'm assuming the disk you intend to use 
is bigger than that.

jason

On Thursday 31 October 2002 14:03, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:53, Jason Tower wrote:
> > not knowing the details of trilug's physical infrastructure and setup,
> > this may be a foolish question: is there any particular reason for adding
> > a dedicated machine to accomplish this goal vs. adding a disk to the
> > existing machine with the home directories and mounting it as /backup?
>
> Well, primarily it's because there isn't any more room in any of
> the 3 current machines.  While we have room for more scsi disks
> because of the nice scsi tower rti donated (thanks roy!) the hard
> disk we have for this job is IDE and won't go there.  There's
> also the fact that by making it another machine, we can
> further isolate it from anything that might go wrong with the
> main machine.  We can also put it on only the private network
> so it's not accessible from the internet and is less at risk
> of being hacked.
>
> What you suggest would work, though, if we had room.  That's
> pretty much what I plan on doing at home when I get around to
> replacing my dead drive (/me observes a moment of silence for
> his dead drive).
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner