Nekonomicon - Fuel 900Mhz, 4GB, V12, DCD, DM6

archaic
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Wrote the following at Sept. 11, 2009, 8:14 p.m...

I was able to trade a bunch of stuff for this machine a few weeks ago. This thing is much faster than my Octane! And no, the DM6 doesn't work. The mlquery program shows that it is there but the video daemon refuses to start.

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Location: /hw/module/001c01/node

IP34 Board: barcode NWW711     part 030-1707-005 rev -B

Location: /hw/module/001c01/node/cpubus/0

IP34PIMM Board: barcode MWX842     part 030-2023-001 rev -B

Location: /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/13

ASTODY Board: barcode NSR591     part 030-1726-006 rev -A

Location: /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/14

IP34 Board: barcode NWW711     part 030-1707-005 rev -B

Location: /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15

IP34 Board: barcode NWW711     part 030-1707-005 rev -B

1 900 MHZ IP35 Processor

CPU: MIPS R16000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0

FPU: MIPS R16010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.0

CPU 0 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice A: 900 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)

Processor revision: 3.0. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 450 Mhz  Tap 0xb

Main memory size: 4096 Mbytes

Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes

Data cache size: 32 Kbytes

Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes

Memory at Module 001c01/Slot 0: 4096 MB (enabled)

Bank 0 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)

Bank 1 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)

Bank 2 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)

Bank 3 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)

Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential

Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)

Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, single ended

CDROM: unit 3 on SCSI controller 1

CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 1

Integral SCSI controller 2: Version SAS/SATA LS1068

IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1

IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2

IOC3 parallel port: plp1

Graphics board: V12

Gigabit Ethernet: tg1, module 001c01, PCI bus 2 slot 2 port 0

Gigabit Ethernet: tg2, module 001c01, PCI bus 2 slot 2 port 1

Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 001c01, pci 4

Iris Audio Processor: version MAD revision 1, number 1

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1102, device 0x0004) PCI slot 1

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1102, device 0x7003) PCI slot 1

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1102, device 0x4001) PCI slot 1x

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1648) PCI slot 2

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1648) PCI slot 2

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1216) PCI slot 1

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1000, device 0x0054) PCI slot 2

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10ee, device 0xd151) PCI slot 3

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 4

PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1045, device 0xc861) PCI slot 5

SD-DIGVID Standard Definition Digital Video: unit 0, revision 2.71.0

HUB in Module 001c01/Slot 0: Revision 2 Speed 200.00 Mhz (enabled)

Dual Channel Display

IP35prom in Module 001c01/Slot n0: Revision 6.210

USB controller: type OHCI

USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type keyboard

USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type mouse

And the graphics Info

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Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.

Managed (":0.0") 1920x1200

BUZZ version B.2

PB&J version 1

128MB memory

Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3

Monitor 0 type: Unknown

Dual Channel Display option

Monitor 1 type: SAM 1055    Monitor 2 type: Unknown

Input Sync: Voltage - Video Level; Source - Internal; Genlocked - False

Channel 0:

Origin = (0,0)

Video Output: 1920 pixels, 1200 lines, 60.00Hz (1920x1200_60p)

Video Format Flags:  (none)

Sync Disabled

Using Gamma Map 0

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jade_angel
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Wrote the following at Sept. 14, 2009, 5:49 a.m...

Very nice! This looks fairly similar to Ian Mapleson's setup, SAS controller and all. Looks like it's nearly as tricked out as a Fuel can get, other than maybe a Firewire card.

archaic
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Wrote the following at Sept. 14, 2009, 2:24 p.m...

Thanks! It may have a firewire card in it soon if the DM6 keeps refusing to cooperate!

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mapesdhs
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Wrote the following at Sept. 15, 2009, 7:20 a.m...

Woohoo! Welcome to the 900 club! 8-)

I think the membership just doubled.

(anyone else have one?)

I just used an internal-only SAS card btw (4-port), from here .

What disks does your system have? I've been upgrading over time, now have a 300GB 15K system, 300GB 10K Data,
and a 1TB SATA.

Btw, have you tried measuring the power consumption?... *grin*

Ian.

ramq
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Wrote the following at Sept. 15, 2009, 7:34 a.m...

mapesdhs wrote:

I just used an internal-only SAS card btw (4-port), from here .

I use the very same cables that is supplied with that particular adapter and they're great! Fits both SAS and SATA drives on it.

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archaic
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Wrote the following at Sept. 15, 2009, 6:50 p.m...

mapesdhs wrote:

Woohoo! Welcome to the 900 club! 8-)

I think the membership just doubled.

(anyone else have one?)

I just used an internal-only SAS card btw (4-port), from here .

What disks does your system have? I've been upgrading over time, now have a 300GB 15K system, 300GB 10K Data,
and a 1TB SATA.

Btw, have you tried measuring the power consumption?... *grin*

Ian.

I saw a processor module sell on E Bay so there is potentially three of them in existence. I just have the 146Gb 10K that came with it. I have a SATA drive that was an RMA return but I don't have a cable for the SAS controller that works. I have the one that turns 4 SATA connections into a 32pin connection, not the 32-pin into 4 SATAs. The one I need is wired crossover and this one is straight through. I just bought this one because it was $25. I had already been looking at that auction.

I hooked up the Kill-a-Watt and it seems to pull around 250W. Not bad compared to the ONYX IR.

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hamei
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Wrote the following at Sept. 15, 2009, 7:08 p.m...

mapesdhs wrote:

Woohoo! Welcome to the 900 club! 8-)

I think the membership just doubled.

(anyone else have one?).

I saw one sell for $700 a while back ... saw too late, I might add. So there must be some more floating around.

foetz
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Wrote the following at Sept. 15, 2009, 8:32 p.m...

900 rocks, congrats

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archaic
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Wrote the following at Sept. 15, 2009, 8:52 p.m...

foetz wrote:

900 rocks, congrats

Thanks!

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mapesdhs
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Wrote the following at Sept. 16, 2009, 12:38 a.m...

archaic wrote:

... I have the one that turns 4 SATA connections into a 32pin connection, not the 32-pin into 4 SATAs. The one I need is wired crossover and this one is straight through.

I assume the spare cables I received with my card are of no use? (re that auction)

Btw, anyone have a SFF8470/SFF8470 cable (or cables) I could borrow/buy/whatever please? I need to test out some SAS
cards I bought which only have external connectors, but they didn't come with any cables.

Ian.

archaic
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Wrote the following at Sept. 16, 2009, 9:02 p.m...

mapesdhs wrote:

archaic wrote:

... I have the one that turns 4 SATA connections into a 32pin connection, not the 32-pin into 4 SATAs. The one I need is wired crossover and this one is straight through.

I assume the spare cables I received with my card are of no use? (re that auction)

Btw, anyone have a SFF8470/SFF8470 cable (or cables) I could borrow/buy/whatever please? I need to test out some SAS
cards I bought which only have external connectors, but they didn't come with any cables.

Ian.

I'm afraid not. This is the card that I have. http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/product ... sas3080xr/ It requires SFF-8484 to SATA cables.

When I get them I can hook up 8 internal drives though

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mapesdhs
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Wrote the following at Sept. 17, 2009, 5:26 a.m...

That sounds like the same cable which came with my SAS3442X-R. No luck finding them?

8 internal? Heh, that should be fun. I hope the PSU will cope with it ok.

Ian.

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archaic
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Wrote the following at Sept. 17, 2009, 6:09 p.m...

archaic wrote:

mapesdhs wrote:

archaic wrote:

... I have the one that turns 4 SATA connections into a 32pin connection, not the 32-pin into 4 SATAs. The one I need is wired crossover and this one is straight through.

I assume the spare cables I received with my card are of no use? (re that auction)

Btw, anyone have a SFF8470/SFF8470 cable (or cables) I could borrow/buy/whatever please? I need to test out some SAS
cards I bought which only have external connectors, but they didn't come with any cables.

Ian.

I'm afraid not. This is the card that I have. http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/product ... sas3080xr/ It requires SFF-8484 to SATA cables.

When I get them I can hook up 8 internal drives though

I would never put 8 in it. No need when you can hook up TB drives to it.

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mapesdhs
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Wrote the following at Jan. 16, 2013, 2:18 a.m...

It would be ok if they're all SSDs. For mechanical drives though, the system would definitely need some PSU assistance to cope
with 8 internal drives.

Btw, I need to update the system summary, things have changed somewhat.

System disk is now a combined 60GB + 120GB
SSD, etc. Here's my diskperf in /var/tmp (this is effectively accessing the 120GB via the 3442X-R, which holds /usr and /var):

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# req_size  fwd_wt  fwd_rd  bwd_wt  bwd_rd  rnd_wt  rnd_rd

#  (bytes)  (MB/s)  (MB/s)  (MB/s)  (MB/s)  (MB/s)  (MB/s)

#---------------------------------------------------------

4096   39.75   33.27   39.94   33.07   39.70   22.56

8192   69.13   57.90   69.70   53.91   69.68   30.46

16384  109.03   92.98  107.86   79.81  110.71   54.90

32768  153.29  131.74  153.74  103.54  153.02   90.66

65536  192.25  170.21  188.90  151.19  193.54  137.95

131072  220.07  209.69  217.79  195.31  218.80  182.74

262144  238.19  233.02  234.89  228.38  238.00  220.60

524288  247.30  251.77  248.45  248.34  246.96  246.07

1048576  252.74  263.24  253.12  261.81  252.85  261.06

2097152  256.56  269.65  255.59  269.41  255.87  269.02

4194304  257.14  274.21  262.54  273.46  257.71  273.34

Seamonkey launch time is less than 2 seconds.

Ian.

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jan-jaap
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Wrote the following at Jan. 16, 2013, 2:54 a.m...

Is that with a single SSD or two in a RAID0?

The LSISAS3442X manual says it can do SAS at 3Gb/s speed (per lane), but

manual page 1-3 wrote:

Supports SATA as defined in the Serial ATA Specification, version 1.0.

That's only 150MB/s for SATA devices?

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mapesdhs
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Wrote the following at Jan. 16, 2013, 6:19 a.m...

That was on one SSD, and SATA2 speed works fine; one of the BIOS updates supports it ok (P20 or P21, I forget).

The / is on a 60GB SSD in an ARS-2160 SCSI/SATA bridge box. df gives:

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Filesystem             Type    kbytes       use       avail  %use Mounted on

/dev/root               xfs   58063824   17121888   40941936  30  /

/dev/dsk/dks4d0s6       xfs   91198596    2416392   88782204   3  /var

/dev/dsk/dks4d0s7       xfs   20966720   15575912    5390808  75  /usr

/dev/dsk/dks4d1s7       xfs  117204468   80369424   36835044  69  /ian

/dev/dsk/dks4d2s7       xfs  585988196  438519756  147468440  75  /data

/dev/dsk/dks4d3s7       xfs  976641304  283295664  693345640  30  /video

diskperf isn't as fast on / of course, but it doesn't need to be, though 4K random I/O is still 10X better than any mechanical.

My main user account is on a 120GB SSD aswell. General data is on a 600GB 15K SAS (Seagate 15K.7, way faster than any SATA. 200MB+sec)
and a 1TB is my video archive (backup DivX dumps of DVD movies).

All the SSDs are OCZ Vertex2E. The later Vertex3 runs slower. V2E has firmware much better suited to IRIX.

Ian.

Voralyan
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Wrote the following at Feb. 9, 2013, 6:50 a.m...

archaic wrote:

And no, the DM6 doesn't work. The mlquery program shows that it is there but the video daemon refuses to start.

This is most likely what is expected... The DM6 is, as with other video devices from the DM series, an OpenML only device.
So it has no way to speak to the "classic" IRIX video infrastructure like the video daemon.
The DM2/DM3 is mostly used with the discreet software; you will need something similar for the DM6, I think...

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mapesdhs
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Wrote the following at Feb. 9, 2013, 7:24 a.m...

Voralyan wrote:

... you will need something similar for the DM6, I think...

Discreet never supported the DM6, or the Fuel (not enough RAM).

Ian.

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Fuel 900Mhz, 4GB, V12, DCD, DM6