Re: AmigaOne or Pegasos for a smallish server?
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:12:51PM +0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:44:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >> > crossbar memory architecture. That said, some of the pegasos boards
> >> > may still be findable in some retailer as i heard.
> >>
> >> Tried Relec.ch, no answer yet.
> >
> > Try contacting Genesi directly.
>
> No need, Relec answered. Now it is seeing if they can deliver
> integration, support etc.
Good.
> Anyway one of my partners here in Switzerland has a strong
> prejudice against relying on French companies, as he had bad enough
> experiences in the near past. And that's not chauvinism, as he is
> French himself.
Well, Genesi is a Luxembourgian companies, and the boards are
manufactured in Germany by ex Phase5 people.
> >> Do you think it production-stable for a server?
> >
> > I don't know, i guess it works well, i have never seen it hang, but then i
> > have not especially stress tested it. What would be the things that needs
> > to be tested for this ?
>
> Samba will do lots of network and disk transfers... otherwise the
> needs are ECC memory, SCSI RAID and tape backup. I fear if you need
> something more specific than that I'm not enough of a hacker.
I have been toying of putting a pegasos in a FlexAtx case (like the
ones from AOpen) myself, with a nice low-profile SCSI RAID card from
adaptec, but i couldn't justify the price of it for a desktop box, and
maybe a server would need a bigger case anyway. PLease check with your
distributor about compatibility of the SCSI card you will be using
before committing to it though, some might have problems with either the
OF implementation or the Linux driver. Altough i don't really know, my
Tekram sym53c810a based SCSI card was supported without problems, but i
had problems with my 3Dlabs based graphic cards (wildcatvp and older
Jeronimo 2000 board, altough putting a full length AGP card on a
microATX board is not a nice idea anyway).
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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