Pentium II with Asus P2B-S

andreas_baumann · 2018-10-25 20:15:26

Another "new' machine, running with the i686 version of the packages (as long as I stay in text mode, this
words. Later I might have to downgrade to the i486 version).

Pentium II, the motherboard has integrated SCSI support (Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W).
I have two 64 GB disks in there.

The machine was a Silverstone case (for an old PVR, where the motherboard died).
The CDROM died, so rescue operations happen via Compact Flash on an external
PATA connection:

The hard disks have gone "3978 days" without checking, which is a personal record:

Even the SCSI host adapter is not amused about the age of the hard disk (this is
a SMART message I cannot easily remove - especially annoying as I have to press
Enter on every reboot):

This is one half of the archlinux32.andreasbaumann.cc mirror BTW. :-)

levi · 2018-10-25 23:04:57

andreas_baumann wrote:

This is one half of the archlinux32.andreasbaumann.cc mirror BTW. :-)

Erk! Oh well, as long as it's load balanced with something a bit more trustworthy!

andreas_baumann · 2018-10-26 20:12:56

Yeah. With a 'Core 2' CPU machine, which is actually a 64-bit machine. :-)

andreas_baumann · 2018-10-30 18:49:25

So, the main mirror is back on the 64-bit Archlinux machine, this old Pentium II machine is serving now only
as 'hot standby' and test machine. :-)

deep42thought · 2018-10-30 22:39:10

maybe we should start posting pictures of all our core infrastructure (but my desk is too messy, I don't want to take a photo of the banana pi serving git2.archlinux32.org)

andreas_baumann · 2018-10-31 07:39:29

Perfect timing for a desk cleanup. :-)

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Pentium II with Asus P2B-S

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