Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

[Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net>]

On 08/02/11 16:12, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT put forth on 2/8/2011 8:04 AM:
> > who does play with Itanium box ?
> > expert or newbie ?
>
> Old Itanium boxen are often sold on Ebay very cheap, same with SPARC, etc, and
> discarded by universities, etc.  These are what some newbies play with.  You
> never know for sure if the OP doesn't state specs up front, as in this case.
> This is why it's best to always ask.
>
> For instance here's an IBM dual CPU Itanium for $350 USD with 16GB RAM.  The
> memory alone is almost worth the price:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-XSERIES-X382-2U-ITANIUM2-1-4GHz-x2-16GB-73GB-x2-/360339407612?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item53e5e702fc
>
> One with quad 1.5GHz CPUs for $400 USD:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-XSERIES-455-8855-3RX-4U-ITANIUM2-1-5GHz-x4-73GBx2-/360339401893?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item53e5e6eca5
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-ZX6000-Workstation-Server-dual-1-5GHz-Itanium2-8GB-/230579863369?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item35afa17f49
>
> Many many more for sale.

my mistake:
I forgot than as newbie I could done what may sound totally unreasonable today.

> Did you not see the post yesterday by a newbie who bought an old Sun uSPARC IIIi
> box and couldn't get the iSCSI PCI-X HBA working with Debian, because Qlogic
> doesn't produce SPARC/Linux binaries of their utils kit?

I missed it.

Jerome