On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:30 , Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:44:21PM -0700, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:
>>> I'd love to fire that beastie up again and fill up the empty SIMM
>>> slots, maybe even add in the power supplies and 7 more system boards
>>> from the other machine... The I/O cabinet has 7 disk trays in it,
>>> with
>>> ~ 3 drives on each of 14 of those SCSI buses. And lots of fans.
>>> Enough upward airflow to put on some goggles and jumpsuit and hover
>>> over the machine. Can't do THAT with a T1000. :-)
>> Yeah, I never feel like a machine is REALLY beefy unless it takes
>> more than
>> 10-15 minutes to run through a full diag boot (like the big Alpha
>> boxes at
>> $JOB-1).
>
> I have a machine or two that take 45+ minutes to POST.
I do too.
And one day, real soon now, I'm going to fix the broken script that
causes it to hang like that... :)
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Shannon Hendrix
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