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Re: Hardware donation



Hello

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:54:00PM -0400, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > 
> > > First off, I would not ask you to spend a fortune on SCSI disks, for
> > > what we need IDE is definitely enough.  The MSI boards currently come
> > > with ATA/66 and no SCSI, IIRC.
> > > 
> > > I was thinking in the range of 160GB.  
> > 
> > I'd guess we should take what we get, no? 160GB looks way more than
> > enough for now, at least to me.
> 
> I heard some people had problems with disks > 128GB, but maybe thats i386
> only?

This is an old(er) IDE controller problem.

> > > and of course working space for the developers.  As you commented X is
> > > a pig when building :)
> > 
> > |Build needed 05:12:44, 2707208k disk space
> > 
> > It's not that bad.
> 
> Depends on the arch big time:
> 68060 failed with an error in debian/rules:
> Build needed 65:27:12, 2857764k disk space
> 
> athlon:
> Build needed 01:28:10, 3526956k disk space
> 
> amd64: 10 minutes? 5?
> 
> > BTW: The partition limit on GNU/Hurd is 2GB - and there is a buildd
> > running usually, too. Well, at least it pretends to :)
> 
> I have a 40GB partition on the athlon, I wouldn't expect a limit on amd64
> then?
> 
> BTW It would be nice if AMD64 could do m68k codemorphing...

Regards,

// Ola

> Christian
> 
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