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Corey Shields wrote: |
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> After talking with Kingtaco, he agreed that (if the trustees agree), we loan |
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> Donnie the old board/cpu from Nemo (the pre-AMD donation nemo). This board |
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> has sat unused mainly because there is a badly burnt transistor on the board, |
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> but nemo was working fine when we took it down. The burn is close to the |
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> SATA and USB chipsets, neither were being used by Nemo. I think this was the |
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> factor that allowed it to work as it did. With this in mind it has no |
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> intended future use in production by the AMD64 or releng teams. |
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> There would be no cost to get this to Donnie, as he lives here in Corvallis. |
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> He can swing by my office and pick it up as soon as the Trustees agree on |
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> this (if it is agreeable). |
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This loan could be most useful as a temporary measure; thanks for |
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suggesting it! What kind of board/CPU is this? I've got IDE disks here, |
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so lack of SATA isn't a problem (unless the board also has no IDE), and |
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I've got a PCI USB card. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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