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  • Re: Slackware on PC Server 520

    From Peter H. Wendt@peterwendt@mcamafia.de to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Tue Feb 3 00:41:43 2026
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    Hi Wolfgang !

    The Server 320/520 PCI/MCA has a bad reputation. The motherboard is considered prone to failure and unreliable, especially when PCI and MCA network cards are installed simultaneously.

    I still have my Server 520 in stock and it was running Linux at first
    but permanently threw a kernel panic and stopped - so I tossed Linux and installed NT Server (4 I guess) and that worked nicely until I decided
    to retire the machine due to noise issues and power drawn.

    Still has its 12 HD configuration with a Raid-1 pair for the OS and two
    Raid-5 data arrays. Hadn't been powered for over a decade ...
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  • From Wolfgang Gehl@wolfgang_no_spam@maxi-dsl.de to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Tue Feb 3 23:18:41 2026
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    Am 03.02.26 um 00:41 schrieb Peter H. Wendt:
    Still has its 12 HD configuration with a Raid-1 pair for the OS and two Raid-5 data arrays. Hadn't been powered for over a decade ...


    Hi Peter,

    My 520 came with five hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration. I can
    imagine the racket twelve SCSI drives make along with the three enormous
    case fans.

    Nobody wants a workstation like that.

    If it weren't such a fast machine with an MCA bus ...
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  • From Louis Ohland@ohland@charter.net to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Tue Feb 3 17:39:12 2026
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    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware/c/KxhTry9mGY0/m/pBFBIj3B9NwJ

    Wolfgang Gehl wrote:
    Am 03.02.26 um 00:41 schrieb Peter H. Wendt:
    Still has its 12 HD configuration with a Raid-1 pair for the OS and
    two Raid-5 data arrays. Hadn't been powered for over a decade ...


    Hi Peter,

    My 520 came with five hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration. I can
    imagine the racket twelve SCSI drives make along with the three enormous case fans.

    Nobody wants a workstation like that.

    If it weren't such a fast machine with an MCA bus ...
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  • From Peter H. Wendt@peterwendt@mcamafia.de to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Wed Feb 4 01:34:15 2026
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    Hi Wolfgang

    There it is topping the list - in the previous configuration.
    Later that year I'd altered it to 1 RAID-2 and 2 RAID-5 arrays, dropping
    the spare drive. The latter two arrays are with 5 x 4.5GB drives.
    My 520 came with five hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration. I can
    imagine the racket twelve SCSI drives make along with the three enormous case fans.

    Nobody wants a workstation like that.

    It is running on the single supply - I once had the secondary installed
    as well, but it adds another noisy fan and choked occasionally. While it
    was not really needed power-wise I removed it. The drives are mostly
    68-pin DCHS IIRC. Not too noisy compared with the DCRS or faster DGHS.

    If it weren't such a fast machine with an MCA bus ...

    Wonder if it would power up at all. I guess the CMOS battery has gone
    south for long - and probably damaged the board. And there were these
    dreaded SMD caps "en masse". Ooof !
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  • From Peter H. Wendt@peterwendt@mcamafia.de to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Wed Feb 4 01:43:09 2026
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    Ahem ...

    https://solidstatedisks.com/products/scsiflash/
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