My Octane 2 used for dev work, desktop and generally daily-driver UNIX system.
It's a delight to drive an Octane series system after nearly 8 years and moving east. Today I managed to get an video card working in it. THe v8pro I purchased off fleabay is DOA sadly and I didn't have the ability to test it 2 years ago when I was acquiring parts. I've learnt. I've been using an O2 180Mhz since '07 when I moved to Sydney and doing >95% of my fiddling and coding on it. It's just too slow when I'm building larger things and memory is low. So, here is my workhorse to augment the O2.
Thanks veganman for the prodding and advice to get this thing up and running to it's current state again
History of the system:
I pushed the chassis and skins through Sydney streets on a hand-trolley with Freespace (Steve) as he needed a PSU for his Octane(1) and we had no idea where in Redfern we were going. It was just a PSU and a chassis and xbow. He stashed the case here at my place for a number of years and I stared at it longingly. After 4-5 years I asked him if he was still interested in it, and if he'd consider selling it. He was apologetic and had forgotten about it and offered it to me for free (Awww.. :~) .. so after a health scare for $aging_parent, I headed back to Perth and started cleaning out my room of crimes. I broke down my old Octane(1) with v1.3 xbow and sent the ram and video cards to Sydney. So I then assembled bits, fleabayed some CPU's and a defective v8pro (grr!), and here are. Foolishly I took the ESI's off the mounting boards and left them. Not bright. I then cut and shaped some metal to hold things 'just so' (tm) and here we are. The v8pro's holes don't line up and the one I purchased had no hook clips. Hook clips I took off when I left the old carrier boards which is back in Perth. (..not my brightest hour).
Recently I stumbled across the GigE card on fleabay for cheap. It's nice.
This'll be very pleasurable compiling C/C++, Fortran, Ada and running LiSP code compared to the puddly O2.
It's a delight to drive an Octane series system after nearly 8 years and moving east. Today I managed to get an video card working in it. THe v8pro I purchased off fleabay is DOA sadly and I didn't have the ability to test it 2 years ago when I was acquiring parts. I've learnt. I've been using an O2 180Mhz since '07 when I moved to Sydney and doing >95% of my fiddling and coding on it. It's just too slow when I'm building larger things and memory is low. So, here is my workhorse to augment the O2.
Thanks veganman for the prodding and advice to get this thing up and running to it's current state again
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hound 1# uname -aR;hinv -vm
IRIX64 hound 6.5 6.5.30f 07202013 IP30
Location: /hw/node
PM20600MHZ Board: barcode MXK598 part 030-1778-001 rev C
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15
IP30 Board: barcode LLP714 part 030-1467-001 rev D
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2
PWR.SPPLY.S2 Board: barcode AAC7450960 part 060-0038-001 rev C
FP1 Board: barcode KVH259 part 030-0891-003 rev G
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/13
XTALKPCI Board: barcode KXB369 part 030-0952-005 rev E
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11
MOT10 Board: barcode HRE724 part 030-1241-002 rev G
2 600 MHZ IP30 Processors
Heart ASIC: Revision F
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Main memory size: 4352 Mbytes
Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 1
Integral SCSI controller 2: Version Fibre Channel QL2200A, 33 MHz PCI
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: ESI with texture option
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
Gigabit Ethernet: eg0, PCI slot 2, firmware version 12.4.10
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x2200) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0009) PCI slot 2
hound 2#
History of the system:
I pushed the chassis and skins through Sydney streets on a hand-trolley with Freespace (Steve) as he needed a PSU for his Octane(1) and we had no idea where in Redfern we were going. It was just a PSU and a chassis and xbow. He stashed the case here at my place for a number of years and I stared at it longingly. After 4-5 years I asked him if he was still interested in it, and if he'd consider selling it. He was apologetic and had forgotten about it and offered it to me for free (Awww.. :~) .. so after a health scare for $aging_parent, I headed back to Perth and started cleaning out my room of crimes. I broke down my old Octane(1) with v1.3 xbow and sent the ram and video cards to Sydney. So I then assembled bits, fleabayed some CPU's and a defective v8pro (grr!), and here are. Foolishly I took the ESI's off the mounting boards and left them. Not bright. I then cut and shaped some metal to hold things 'just so' (tm) and here we are. The v8pro's holes don't line up and the one I purchased had no hook clips. Hook clips I took off when I left the old carrier boards which is back in Perth. (..not my brightest hour).
Recently I stumbled across the GigE card on fleabay for cheap. It's nice.
This'll be very pleasurable compiling C/C++, Fortran, Ada and running LiSP code compared to the puddly O2.
Al Boyanich
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