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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Terrific Haul: $0 | Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2008-01-21 18:46:38
I got one of these Quadra 950s booted up.
Main drive is a 1 GB IBM drive on the motherboard bus, mounted where the CD would go.
It has the 5 drive shelf, all 5 drives are Quantum 9.1 GB drives, set up in a RAID 5 array to get about 36 GB of space. Freakin' sweet. Fast, fault tolerant - what more could you ask for. I assume the other 950 is similar. There are more, what appear to be 9.1 GB drives in a box.
For some reason when I boot with all the extensions on it never boots - it gets to the Desktop and just kind of freezes up. Right now I have enabled only the "Remus" extensions and a control panel for the SCSI card and it boots right up.
The other 950 is not producing a startup sound. It may need a battery?
The 9150 is in storage due to lack of space at this time.
I'm definitely considering making one of these a server. If I can configure it somehow to only use a small slice of my upload bandwidth - I get 1 mbps upload and it would need to be limited to like 256 kbps or so as not to monopolize it. Then I could run Hotline and maybe a basic web server just to say I have a 950 web server. A/UX a possibility but I don't know if Hotline can run on that.
| Posted by: paws on 2008-01-22 00:34:13
This really sounds too good to be true..
| Posted by: kreats on 2008-01-22 02:22:49
the raid q950 must almost destroy your ears when it's turned on.
one of my long term projects is to quiet down mine.
very nice haul
| Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2008-02-16 19:42:15
Follow up:
The old PC that I got with this haul does not seem to work. But there is a bonus inside: a total of 8, 64 MB Parity FPM SIMMs. I have only dealt with ordinary 64 MB SIMMs so I don't know if Parity is any better or not, when used in a Mac.
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