I recently took a chance on an "As-Is" Origin 300 from eBay. I won the auction for just $36, and the shipping was a lot less than what I've seen from other sellers. (It was halfway across Canada but still north of the border, so no customs hassles...which might explain why shipping was less than half the cost of other Origins I've looked at from US sellers.)
Turns out that in this case "As-Is" meant fully functional!
I was a little disappointed that it was only 2 CPUs and only 1GB RAM. I had been hoping it would have disk sleds in it, and so I was very pleasantly surprised to find that it had a 73GB system disk (with no root password on what appears to be a fresh install of 6.5.29) and a 300GB Seagate disk in the second slot, along with a QL12160 SCSI card in one of the PCI slots. That made up for having only 2 CPUs. So all in all, it was better than expected!
Even more so considering it was still well under $100 even after adding shipping and taxes.
hinv -vm:
uname -aR:
scsicontrol -i /dev/scsi/*:
diskpatch -v:
l1cmd serial all:
l1cmd flash status:
l1cmd env:
l1cmd pci:
I won't bother with pictures. It's nothing special visually. But I'm still very excited. I'll probably spend next weekend putting it through it's paces to compare it to my 2x250MHz Octane.
And I just love the L1 functionality. I wish all systems had that! I do notice that it's quite an old L1 firmware version and that will have to be updated. (In fact, something in the boot process is complaining about the firmware being too old to support some feature.) I've read up on that in the wiki and the cautionary tales in the forum about trying to jump too many versions at a time. I think I've got a bit more reading to do before I actually understand it well enough to attempt the multi-stage incremental updates to the firmware and the flash utility. But you guys have done the hard parts: figuring out the process and documenting it. Thanks for that! Otherwise I'd be in big trouble.
Turns out that in this case "As-Is" meant fully functional!
I was a little disappointed that it was only 2 CPUs and only 1GB RAM. I had been hoping it would have disk sleds in it, and so I was very pleasantly surprised to find that it had a 73GB system disk (with no root password on what appears to be a fresh install of 6.5.29) and a 300GB Seagate disk in the second slot, along with a QL12160 SCSI card in one of the PCI slots. That made up for having only 2 CPUs. So all in all, it was better than expected!
Even more so considering it was still well under $100 even after adding shipping and taxes.
hinv -vm:
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Location: /hw/module/001c24/node
IP45_2CPU Board: barcode MJH014 part 030-1780-001 rev -C
Location: /hw/module/001c24/Ibrick/xtalk/14
IO8 Board: barcode MJL112 part 030-1673-003 rev -F
Location: /hw/module/001c24/Ibrick/xtalk/15
IO8 Board: barcode MJL112 part 030-1673-003 rev -F
2 500 MHZ IP35 Processors
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.4
CPU 0 at Module 001c24/Slot 0/Slice A: 500 Mhz MIPS R14000 Processor Chip (enab
Processor revision: 2.4. Scache: Size 2 MB Speed 250 Mhz Tap 0xa
CPU 1 at Module 001c24/Slot 0/Slice C: 500 Mhz MIPS R14000 Processor Chip (enab
Processor revision: 2.4. Scache: Size 2 MB Speed 250 Mhz Tap 0xa
Main memory size: 1024 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Memory at Module 001c24/Slot 0: 1024 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 512 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 1 contains 512 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
Integral SCSI controller 3: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
Integral SCSI controller 6: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 2)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty3
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty4
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 001c24, pci 4
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1216) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1216) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 4
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x11c1, device 0x5802) PCI slot 5
IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1
HUB in Module 001c24/Slot 0: Revision 2 Speed 200.00 Mhz (enabled)
IP35prom in Module 001c24/Slot n0: Revision 6.210
USB controller: type OHCI
uname -aR:
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IRIX64 orion 6.5 6.5.29m 01090133 IP35
scsicontrol -i /dev/scsi/*:
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/dev/scsi/sc0d1l0: Disk SGI ST373307LC 2741
ANSI vers 3, ISO ver: 0, ECMA ver: 0; supports: 16bit synch linkedcmds cmdqueig
Device is ready
/dev/scsi/sc0d2l0: Disk SEAGATE ST3300007LC 0002
ANSI vers 3, ISO ver: 0, ECMA ver: 0; supports: 16bit synch linkedcmds cmdqueig
Device is ready
diskpatch -v:
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sc0d1l0: Disk SGI ST373307LC 2741 Serial: 3HZ0MW7R
sc0d2l0: Disk SEAGATE ST3300007LC 0002 Serial: 3KR0E5B7
l1cmd serial all:
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Data Location Value
------------------------------ ------------ --------
Local System Serial Number NVRAM M2001347
Reference System Serial Number NVRAM M2001347
Local Brick Serial Number EEPROM MJH014
Reference Brick Serial Number NVRAM MJH014
EEPROM Product Name Serial Part Number Rev T/W
---------- -------------- ---------- -------------------- --- ------
NODE IP45_2CPU MJH014 030_1780_001 C 00
IO8 IO8 MJL112 030_1673_003 F 00
EEPROM JEDEC Info Part Number Rev
---------- ------------------------ ------------------ ---
DIMM 0 CE0000000000000027F43B00 M3 46L6510BT1-CA0 0B
DIMM 2 no hardware detected
DIMM 1 CE00000000000000279F3B00 M3 46L6510BT1-CA0 0B
DIMM 3 no hardware detected
l1cmd flash status:
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Flash image B currently booted
Image Status Revision Built
----- ------------- ---------- -----
A valid 1.10.12 02/01/2002 14:40:22
B default 1.10.12 02/01/2002 14:40:22
l1cmd env:
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Environmental monitoring is enabled and running.
Description State Warning Limits Fault Limits Current
-------------- ---------- ----------------- ----------------- -------
12V IO Enabled 10% 10.80/ 13.20 20% 9.60/ 14.40 12.12
12V DIG Enabled 10% 10.80/ 13.20 20% 9.60/ 14.40 12.25
5V Enabled 10% 4.50/ 5.50 20% 4.00/ 6.00 4.97
3.3V Enabled 10% 2.97/ 3.63 20% 2.64/ 3.96 3.34
5V aux Enabled 10% 4.50/ 5.50 20% 4.00/ 6.00 4.99
3.3V aux Enabled 10% 2.97/ 3.63 20% 2.64/ 3.96 3.42
2.5V Enabled 10% 2.25/ 2.75 20% 2.00/ 3.00 2.50
Speedo2 CPU Enabled 10% 1.44/ 1.76 20% 1.28/ 1.92 1.59
1.5V Enabled 10% 1.35/ 1.65 20% 1.20/ 1.80 1.48
Description State Warning RPM Current RPM
-------------- ---------- ----------- -----------
FAN 0 LEFT Enabled 2160 3960
FAN 1 CENTER Enabled 2160 4007
FAN 2 RIGHT Enabled 2160 4105
FAN 3 PS Enabled 2160 3175
FAN 4 PS' Enabled 2160 4371
Advisory Critical Fault Current
Description State Temp Temp Temp Temp
-------------- ---------- -------- -------- -------- ---------
NODE 0 Enabled 30C/ 86F 35C/ 95F 40C/104F 19c/ 66F
NODE 1 Enabled 30C/ 86F 35C/ 95F 40C/104F 19c/ 66F
l1cmd pci:
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Slot Power
---- -----
Slot 1 15.0
Slot 2 0.0
I won't bother with pictures. It's nothing special visually. But I'm still very excited. I'll probably spend next weekend putting it through it's paces to compare it to my 2x250MHz Octane.
And I just love the L1 functionality. I wish all systems had that! I do notice that it's quite an old L1 firmware version and that will have to be updated. (In fact, something in the boot process is complaining about the firmware being too old to support some feature.) I've read up on that in the wiki and the cautionary tales in the forum about trying to jump too many versions at a time. I think I've got a bit more reading to do before I actually understand it well enough to attempt the multi-stage incremental updates to the firmware and the flash utility. But you guys have done the hard parts: figuring out the process and documenting it. Thanks for that! Otherwise I'd be in big trouble.
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