Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:25:21 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: royce@alaska.net Cc: kris@FreeBSD.org, sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hardware and package builds Message-ID: <20071114.052521.135026097.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <47348106.8080001@alaska.net> References: <472DAFBE.9070603@FreeBSD.org> <472E4B8D.2020902@alaska.net> <47348106.8080001@alaska.net>
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----Security_Multipart(Wed_Nov_14_05_25_21_2007_820)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Royce, sorry for the delay. I was in Ireland last week and the very poor internet connection in the hotel prevented me from replying... Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> wrote in <47348106.8080001@alaska.net>: ro> Royce Williams wrote, on 11/4/2007 1:45 PM: ro> > System: I am willing to buy a 4x U80 for myself and make it available ro> > to the project for package builds. Shipping to Alaska is a bear, so ro> > once the deal goes down, if any other donors could chip in to get it ro> > shipped here, I would appreciate it. I don't want to do this, ro> > however, unless it will actually be useful -- and used. Will it? ro> ro> After talking with Kris and Mark, it appears that the best bang for ro> the buck is to help Hiroki Sato resolve outstanding hardware issues ro> with his e4500s. This will get 10-14 CPUs back online. ro> ro> Hiroki, what hardware or money do you need to get your e4500s back ro> online, in order to improve the speed of package builds for sparc64? Well, let me explain the current situation of my e4500s first. I have three e4500s with 10-14 CPUs online for experiment and package building now, but some of them are often down probably because some hardware failure. However, the problem is that I am not sure what component is broken precisely because most of the questionable symptoms occur even if POST successfully finished. Maybe one of the reasons is we are using FreeBSD; I guess runtime hardware failure reporting is much more specific on Solaris. I have to narrow down the problem and replace the failed components. Anyway, suppose I could identify the failed ones, I would need the replacement. CPU board, modules, and memories are most questionable, so they would likely be needed. Currently all of the boxes use 400MHz w/ 8MB module (PN:X2580A). Also, PCI I/O board (PN:X2632A) would help since we have very few options for Sbus SCSI HBA. -- | Hiroki SATO ----Security_Multipart(Wed_Nov_14_05_25_21_2007_820)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHOggxTyzT2CeTzy0RAuVKAKCBsn1X5I/7s3IadutxhtKWP+ZE7wCgh/Bk sEfVkIlrbWkLdddtlTgYh1g= =Sscb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Wed_Nov_14_05_25_21_2007_820)----
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