Re: SGI O2 Jessie kernel issue

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-mips@telemetry.co.uk>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I own a SGI O2 which is running as a shell-, mail- and webserver since
> > 2006.  The machine has 1 GB of RAM and two 72 GB hard disks configured as
> > RAID-1 (md). CPU is R5000SC @ 180Mhz.
>
> Hmm... I love using my old Thinkpad X30 to give presentations, but
> I can't help thinking that a cubieboard/<fruit>Pi would be a great
> replacement for that machine:
> - much smaller
> - no noise
> - presumably faster processor
> Admittedly, on the RAM side you might end up with the same 1GB, and it
> won't heat up your home nearly as well.
>
> I guess the problem is the RAID part (those little boards have at best
> a single sata port, so if you want RAID you'd either need a port
> multiplier, or you'd have to connect at least one of your drives via USB
> or SD).  This said, some have two µSD slots, so you could use two 64GB
> µSD cards in RAID.

There again, that doesn't exactly answer the question as asked :-)

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