[ale] Hardware available

Leam Hall leamhall at gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 05:58:45 EST 2020


I wish I was somewhere near you. Sounds like this would make a great
testing lab! I'd encourage those of you nearby to grab the hardware as fast
as you can, contact whatever open source projects you love, and see how to
build test bed servers. With so many projects critically short on people
and resources, even setting up a couple of servers to download the code and
run regression tests would help.

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:27 PM Jeremy T. Bouse via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Solomon,
>
> The 2U and 4U systems are mostly just generic rackmount cases. I acquired
> most and simply gutted and rebuilt with new mobo/etc as needed. Speaking of
> mobo I do have a couple of extras as well including at least one AMD 64 bit
> Athalon I believe and an old dual Intel board but not sure which processor
> off hand. I do have a couple of old HP PA-RISC systems I used for
> supporting some Debian package builds over the years. I have a pair of
> SunFire V100 1U systems as well I picked up at one point and have
> never used them. I have a 14 bay Dell PowerVault 2205 but don't recall if
> it has any drives. I have a box with 5-6 new SCSI drives still sealed in
> bags that I got but not sure if they were for that or not.
>
> As I mentioned in another post I'll have to pull them out and hook up to
> power and monitor to POST to get all the specs on them.
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 3:39 PM Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 02:21:20PM -0500, Jeremy T. Bouse via Ale wrote:
>> > Is anyone interested in any of the server hardware I have? I have
>> several
>> > 1U Dell PowerEdge servers as well as 2U and 4U rackmount systems. I
>> think I
>> > also have a 1U rack-mountable keyboard/mouse/LCD.  I also have a
>> 7'x22"x22"
>> > rack available.
>>
>> Might be helpful to describe the details/specs of those 1U/2U/4U
>> systems..
>>
>>  - Solomon
>> --
>> Solomon Peachy                         pizza at shaftnet dot org
>> High Springs, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
>> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
>>
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