[2466] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Hardware purchases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Sep 22 01:52:37 1996
To: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, star-maintainers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Sep 1996 01:39:12 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 01:52:29 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
>> I mentioned some of these in recent mail sent to usenet:
> That's, um, pretty recent.
Well, yes, that was my point. I was intending to imply that some of
them were up for debate because I had just mentioned them.
> As an alternative, I'd suggest replacing the two 1 Gb overview disks
> with a single 2 Gb disk, and replacing the 1 Gb spool3 disk with
> either a newer 1 Gb disk or a 2 Gb disk.
Okay, I can do two 2GB disks instead of one 4GB disk. The goal was
not to increase performance, though, but to reduce the length of the
SCSI chain to prevent failures related to SCSI chain length.
> Also, it's unclear what you mean by "I plan to ask to be made out of
> the server budget": who were you planning to ask about it?
Maryam Afshar, the person currently handling the operations equipment
budget, which is where SIPB server hardware comes from.
