[luau] RHEL 3.0 on AMD64 (Was: migration)

[Warren Togami]

Warren Togami wrote:
> Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
> 
>> How much does an equivalent AMD64 system cost? Any vendors you would 
>> recommend?  What are their specs?
>>
> 
> Here is one example:
> 
> http://pogolinux.com/systems/servers/PerformanceWare/index.html#PW1464
> 2 year warranty
> 1U rackmount
> Dual Opteron 244 processors
> 4GB RAM
> Dual Seagate 73GB 15K U320 SCSI disks (hot swap, I think)
> No Operating System (far cheaper w/ RH academic license in UH's case)
> $5424 before taxes and shipping

I asked the company about the SCSI.  The motherboard comes with onboard 
LSI SCSI (not RAID), but the add-on RAID costs a bit too much to justify 
for two disks.  I believe since the backplane can handle hot-swap, there 
  is a way to disable the disk in the kernel for hot-swap.  When used 
with mdadm and mdadm in monitor mode, it should do great in software 
RAID-1 with hot-swap capability.  I need to do a little more research 
about disabling and enabling SCSI disks.

Warren