[KLUG Hardware] Re: IDE RAID

[Adam Williams]

>>P.S. Thanks for mentioning www.package2you.com. Pretty interesting stuff on
>>that website... I've always wanted a duel processor system on the cheap...
>>Looks like I've found several options for it! :-)*
>Get the IBM Intellistation M-Pro P2-300 they have for $149 and add a 2nd
>CPU (it has the slot for one).  Those boxes are rock solid with Linux! 

Can you tell if these are IntelliStation M Pro PII (6889-5xx,7xx,9xx) or
IntelliStation M Pro 6898-1x0, 6898-1xU?  The 6898 max out at 512Mb of
RAM, which stinks.  I really want to grab one of these (and forget about
bothering with motherboard swaps, etc..) but I want 1024Mb of memory,
which only the 6889 supports?  The link from the site jumps me to IBMs
6896 page but I'm not certain how acurate that is.

>It has onboard SCSI so you can add SCSI devices if you like.  Everything
>is well supported with Linux, even the onboard sound.  They also support
>ECC memory to make them even more stable.
>I've run Intellistations on my desktop for years (and I'm typing this
>email on a M-Pro 933! :)   All my company's servers (web, proxy, mail,
>DNS, intranet, Citrix, Windoze2K) are running on Intellistations, and
>soon the KLUG server will be upgraded to one my company recently retired
>(a dual Intellistation Z-Pro Pentium Pro 200).
>I also ran one at home for a long time.  I can't say enough good things
>about them!

There made by IBM,  isn't much else to say.  And their cool looking.