[CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

Fri Aug 31 18:58:53 UTC 2018
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Warren Young wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2018, at 8:29 AM, Gary Stainburn <gary at ringways.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I
>> wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board /
>> processor in it.
>
> You’re giving two very mixed signals here.
>
> “Old Pentium,” as someone else said, can mean anything back to 1993, but
> “4 TB drive” suggests something far newer than that.

Good point. If it recognizes a 4TB drive, then it has to have a controller
card from around '10 or newer. I don't know that an "old Pentium" can
address that.

Don't they also call 686's Pentiums?

     mark