| Sky_Pod | Hey, I really need some layman's terms help. I tried installing Ubuntu alongside windows and it wound up screwing with my boot sequence. My monitor will not turn on until it defaults booting to Windows. I also can't access my BIOS now | 01:33 |
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| DarwinSurvivor | darn, missed that one | 01:50 |
| DarwinSurvivor | hope he went to #ubuntu | 01:50 |
| genii-around | Hey guys. The Free-Net got a bunch of decomissioned servers and NAS boxes donated to us which we are trying to sell to raise some money. These are all 19" rackmount. Mostly there are a crapload of Dell 1650 with Seagate Barracuda/Cheetah 36 or 73G drives. The NAS are mostly 3U which hold 16 SATA/SAS or 1U holding 3 SCSI | 16:57 |
| genii-around | I'll probably post this to the mailing list as well. | 16:57 |
| genii-around | There's also a bunch of misc stuff like old Cisco switches, loose SCSI U320 drives, PCI-X mixed-mode fibre cards with SC connectors, etc | 16:59 |
| DarwinSurvivor | genii-around: I'm interrested in server cases and networking gear. | 20:01 |
| DarwinSurvivor | I don't think I'm on the mailing list, will the details be posted anywhere else? | 20:01 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: I can give you a brief rundown here if you like | 20:10 |
| DarwinSurvivor | alright | 20:21 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: For networking gear, there is one fibre switch (Compaq StorageWorks SanSwitch 2/16 EL) , 4 x Cisco 2950, 1 x Cisco 3500 XL, 1 x Cisco RPS 300, 1 x Cisco 2950T, 2x Dell PowerConnect 2024 | 20:21 |
| genii-around | We have about 8-10 fibre cards ( multimode SC connectors, PCI-X ) also a crapload of cables. Some of the SAN are fibre as well ( 3x JetStor 516F ) | 20:22 |
| DarwinSurvivor | is the rps 300 a UPS? | 20:24 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: Yes, for the 2950 and the 2950T | 20:26 |
| DarwinSurvivor | ah, ok | 20:27 |
| DarwinSurvivor | what kind of prices are you looking to sell them for? | 20:29 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: About 10-15% off of current market value | 20:33 |
| genii-around | We will also take a payment plan. | 20:33 |
| DarwinSurvivor | ok, cool | 20:33 |
| DarwinSurvivor | I'll need to look into them and see what my budget is like | 20:33 |
| DarwinSurvivor | Is the 2950's the 12 or 24 port models? | 20:34 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: All the 2950 are 24 port | 20:35 |
| genii-around | ( well, the 2950T has the additional 2 Gb ports) | 20:35 |
| DarwinSurvivor | cool | 20:36 |
| DarwinSurvivor | yeah, I noticed that | 20:36 |
| DarwinSurvivor | I think they usually use those 2 for the uplinks, which is handy | 20:36 |
| DarwinSurvivor | is the 3500 XL the 8-port Gb version? (I can only find docs for the 3508G XL) | 20:37 |
| genii-around | Yes, they were previously used to aggregate 3 groups of 8 100Mb ports up to another switch with both Gb and fibre connectors | 20:37 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: The 3500 has 48 ports | 20:38 |
| DarwinSurvivor | 10/100 or gigabit? | 20:38 |
| genii-around | One sec I'll go look | 20:38 |
| DarwinSurvivor | thanks | 20:38 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: I can't tell. They have 3 LED per port however. | 20:39 |
| DarwinSurvivor | that's ok | 20:39 |
| DarwinSurvivor | thanks for the info | 20:40 |
| genii-around | OK | 20:40 |
| DarwinSurvivor | I'll do some more research tonight when I get home :) | 20:40 |
| DarwinSurvivor | oh, are there any empty rack or san boxes? I have an ITX board with harddrives already but all stuffed into an ancient box | 20:40 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: We have a lot of these JetStor 3U NAS boxes as well | 20:40 |
| DarwinSurvivor | just the boxes, or mobo's included? | 20:41 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: they are embedded devices already. Some are full of drives, some are half empty, some are completely empty. | 20:42 |
| DarwinSurvivor | ok | 20:42 |
| DarwinSurvivor | They're sata right | 20:42 |
| genii-around | The older ones take like 8 SCSI drives, then there are some which take 16 SCSI or 16 SATA/SAS o | 20:43 |
| DarwinSurvivor | ok, Might look into the 16xSATA ones, but I'll have to check some things first | 20:44 |
| genii-around | The JetStor 516F take 16 SATA and have fibre out in back. The JetStor 416S takes 16 SCSI, has dual LVD SCSI out on back | 20:44 |
| DarwinSurvivor | cool | 20:44 |
| DarwinSurvivor | do they also have ethernet? | 20:45 |
| genii-around | They are all 3U , and 22" deep | 20:45 |
| DarwinSurvivor | I'm not really set up for fiber at the moment :( | 20:45 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: No ethernet on those... we have some others though, let me go look at the backs | 20:45 |
| DarwinSurvivor | k | 20:45 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: The other units we have are 1U high and take 3 SCSI ( most already have 36 or 73 GB Seagate Cheeta in them ) ... those have 4 ethernet ports on the back | 20:49 |
| DarwinSurvivor | hmm, darn | 20:49 |
| genii-around | All the 3U which take 16 drives only have either fibre or SCSI at rear | 20:49 |
| DarwinSurvivor | I was looking for something that took SATA with an ethernet (or even e-sata) on the back :( | 20:49 |
| genii-around | Well, you could get one of the 16 bay with fibre, and then a second 1U with a SCSI card and multiple nic, hook them up that way | 20:50 |
| DarwinSurvivor | actually, you mentioned fibre cards before. are those pci-e by any chance? | 20:50 |
| genii-around | Sorry, with a fibre card, not a SCSI card.... | 20:51 |
| DarwinSurvivor | unfortunately my server only has 1 pci-e port on it | 20:51 |
| DarwinSurvivor | if it's pci-e, i might be able to hook it up that way | 20:51 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: All the ones I've yanked out so far have been 64 bit PCI-X | 20:51 |
| DarwinSurvivor | ah | 20:51 |
| DarwinSurvivor | well, I'll look into the switches at least | 20:52 |
| genii-around | I've seen PCI-E fibre cards for sale before though, they are not that expensive ( like, $50 ) | 20:52 |
| DarwinSurvivor | hmmm, might be worth looking into then.... | 20:52 |
| DarwinSurvivor | well, I gotta go, but I'll get back to you tonight | 20:52 |
| genii-around | DarwinSurvivor: Cool. I'll be online here for another hour | 20:53 |
| genii-around | If not tonight then I'll be around tomorrow again all day anyways | 20:53 |
| DarwinSurvivor | ok, I'm home all day tomorrow, so that should work | 20:54 |
| genii-around | Cool. | 20:54 |
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