[oi-dev] OI on SPARC???

[Joerg Schilling]

Sa??o Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/19/2012 08:03 PM, Randy DuCharme wrote:
> > Agreed that SPARC is probably a 'dead' platform and tick for tick my 6 core
> > AMD64 screams by comparison.  SPARC has always been very reliable though
> > and I got mine very cheap.  Would like to see them running since they're
> > all still very usable machines.
>
> Nice to see you got good mileage out of your SPARC machines. I've had
> all sorts of issues with our SPARC machines, though it probably was a
> bad batch or something. On all of my T2000s the rear fan above the PSU
> failed after about a year and a half, and one of the machines developed

In many of our machines that run BerliOS, the fans for the harddisks failed 
and we discovered that the chinese producer of that part (Foxconn) replaced the 
japanese fan that is listed as being a ball bearing fan by something that looks 
the same but has a slide bearing.


Jörg

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