Re: AmigaOne or Pegasos for a smallish server?
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:58:43 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>> 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.
Great, that will be an argument!
Phase5... weren't these the guys that wanted an Alpha Amiga?
> 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).
Graphics isn't really a need here... so I expect no problem in these
quarters. But granted I will only take a fully-supported system.
Unfortunately that may push me the x86 route, as Relec is slow to answer,
and other distributors are just too far away.
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