question.. not sure where to post..!!

[Nathaniel Hall]

While you wouldn't necessairly be able to use the same power supply or 
ethernet connection, this would not be that hard.  I am continuing my 
education by taking electronics class here at the school.  One of the 
classes is computer interfacing.  In this class we use a Parallax Basic 
Stamp 2 to control various devices.  This could be adapted to control 
two power switches using one button while keeping the switches completly 
isolated from each other.  The other thing that could be done is to 
place a small ethernet switch or router inside (or outside) the box.  
Connect both to the switch and then there is only a single connection to 
make.  Lastly, place a two system KVM switch inside (or outside) the box 
for system installs or troubleshooting.  This would give you, at a 
minimum, the following connections:

1 Keyboard
1 Mouse
1 Video
1 Network
2 Power (1 for each power supply)
Other misc. connections (USB, Firewire, S/Video, Audio, etc)

As for CD/DVD drives and floppies, depending on the OS and hardware you 
could use USB versions when you need to use them.

Hope this helps.

Nathaniel Hall, GSEC
Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician
Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking

halln at otc.edu
417-799-0552



bruce wrote:

>good stuff...
>
>i'm basically looking into how to create a really cheap (as in cost) not
>quality!! dual mobo blade system. it would be great if i could take two
>small mobos, and slam them into a backplane, and share the power supply,
>while having separate mem/harddrive.
>
>my ultimate goal is to have a device that i could hang on my network, and
>use one side of it as a media player, and the other as a app platform. over
>time, i wouldn't need the floppy/cd/keyboard as i'd like to be able to
>completly control the device/boards via the ethernet connection...
>
>thanks...
>
>-bruce
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Nathaniel Hall
>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 7:35 AM
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>Subject: Re: question.. not sure where to post..!!
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>The blade servers a separate server.  I suppose you could cluster them
>using software, they are actually separate servers.  We use Dell blades
>at the time.  The shared chassis has a built in KVM and Gig switch.
>Each blade that we order has two processors, two gigs of ram, two 145
>gig SCSI drives raided together and, through the use of the chassis, two
>gig nics.  A USB 1.1 floppy and CD-ROM is used for installation (not at
>the same time).  6 blades can fit into each 3 U chassis and each chassis
>( on the cheaper end) uses 120 volt power.
>
>HP has a similar product, but the chassis is 6 U and uses 240 volt power
>and can usually have 20 blades per enclosure.  The main reason for not
>going with HP, other than power, was the hard drive.  Instead of using
>normal SCSI drives, the model we looked at used IDE laptop drives.  The
>laptop drives spin much slower than other drives, usually 5400 RPMs.
>
>Hope that helped.
>
>Nathaniel Hall, GSEC
>Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician
>Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking
>
>halln at otc.edu
>417-799-0552
>
>
>
>Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
>
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Dave Ihnat [mailto:ignatz at dminet.com]
>>>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:34 AM
>>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>>Subject: Re: question.. not sure where to post..!!
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:14:09AM -0400, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
>>>
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>>>      
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>>>>I'm thinking the same thing. You could just get a blade box
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>>>but I've never
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>>>>played with one, so I'm not quit sure of how they function.
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>>>I would imagine
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>>>>it's a cluster situation.
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>>>The biggest problem with blades today is that they're still
>>>proprietary.  I
>>>won't touch 'em until there's enough of a standard that
>>>you're not locked
>>>into one manufacturer once you select a blade system.
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>>>	ignatz at dminet.com
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>>Are they a cluster or can they act as separate machines? (just for my own
>>knowledge).
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