CompSoc goodies
It’s been almost two weeks now since CompSoc received some new goodies from an associate member and I’m surprised I’ve managed to not post it until now.
The weekend before last was UA meet 14 which basically involves a whole pile of members coming down to Manchester to spend all of Friday night, Saturday and Sunday in the pub. I headed along to the Bull’s Head on Friday night and then spent a couple of hours in Kro Bar on the Saturday.
But I suppose the real highlight was the kit that Rauxon dropped off for CompSoc. This included one StorageTek L20 tape library (stores a maximum of 20 tapes, has two tape drives capable of storing 200GB compressed/tape; a total of 4TB compressed data), a Sun StorEdge T3 fibre-channel disk array (fully populated with nine 36GB FC 15K RPM discs in RAID5—about 288GB of extremely fast storage; this is the top line model with 1GB of RAM), a Sun Blade 100 (500MHz UltraSparc II with lots of RAM and an Intel PCI board) and finally a Sun Ultra 5 workstation.
We’ve been pretty busy sorting out a big DNS and mail changeover at CompSoc (finally the legacy tall will be replaced by noisy) but we’ve had a few spare minutes to poke at the new kit. So far we’ve got Solaris 10 installed on the Blade 100 and the companion CD is installing as I write. We’ve also had the T3 hooked up but done nothing more than create a volume (unfortunately one disk seems to be faulty so we’re looking to replace this). As for the L20… that’s been causing the biggest problem, mainly due to the lack of software/drivers we’ve got for it. I spent a bit of time messing with it this evening but without some software that fully supports two tape drives and the other kit, we’re a little stuck.
With a little luck we’ll get the L20 to back something up before the end of the year ;)
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