20 Jun
2006
20 Jun
'06
2:32 p.m.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Bryan Pope wrote:
And thusly were the wise words spake by JP Hindin
You know, it's funny you mention that - during the X build it developed a
bad case of the Barracuda Bearing-itis, where it squeals almost constantly
once it gets warmed up. Disk runs great, zero errors, but it sounds like
someone threw a handful of gravel into it.
I used to run a simple "AI" chat bot that I had written on it, but
eventually turned it off forever because the noise of that damned disk was
giving me migraines, and when I woke up in the middle of the night I could
still hear it.
JP
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Reminded me of building things on my first SGI - an Indy R4600 133mHz.
I built X manually, which took a rather remarkable twenty-two hours to
finish the make. Out of sheer masochism I then built Qt and KDE, which
took a little longer.
I bet the hard drive was happy - when it was finished!! If you
want to build Perl or X or the kernel, what do you do? Start the
make and come back in a week?
Well, yeah ;) when my IIci was my "primary" server in the apartment, kernel
builds took about 8-10 hours.