Nekonomicon - O2, 400MHz R12000A, 576MB RAM, 73GB HDD

macroexp
From Falls Church, VA
Who joined Feb. 25, 2004, 8:23 p.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 21, 2015, 1:21 p.m...

Just upgraded from a 175MHz R10000 - a much more usable machine post-upgrade. Now if I could just find a 16:9 video mode that would agree with my monitor... And now a 15k RPM 73GB that's much quieter than the machine-gun Quantum Atlas 10k that was in there.

Also, replaced the PSU fan with a quieter (a hair less CFM) more modern fan.

Hardware:

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   janus 1# hinv -vm
   

   CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5
   

   FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
   

   1 400 MHZ IP32 Processor
   

   Main memory size: 576 Mbytes
   

   Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes on Processor 0
   

   Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   FLASH PROM version 4.18
   

   Integral SCSI controller 0: Version ADAPTEC 7880
   

   Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 2)
   

   CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0
   

   Integral SCSI controller 1: Version ADAPTEC 7880
   

   On-board serial ports: tty1
   

   On-board serial ports: tty2
   

   On-board EPP/ECP parallel port
   

   CRM graphics installed
   

   Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
   

   Iris Audio Processor: version A3 revision 0
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x9004, device 0x8078) PCI slot 1
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x9004, device 0x8078) PCI slot 2
   

   Video: MVP unit 0 version 1.4
   

   AV: AV1 Card version 1, Camera not connected.
   

   Vice: TRE

Graphics:

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   janus 1# /usr/gfx/gfxinfo -vv
   

   Graphics board 0 is "CRM" graphics.
   

   Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024
   

   32 + 32 bitplanes
   

   board revision 2, CRM revision C, GBE revision B
   

   Monitor 0 type: SAM 693
   

   Channel 0:
   

   Origin = (0,0)
   

   Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 59.94Hz (1280x1024_60)
   

   Video Format Flags:  (none)
   

   Sync Disabled
   

   Using Gamma Map 0
   

   Monitor Type:  SAM-693

HDD info:

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   janus 1# scsicontrol -i /dev/scsi/*
   

   /dev/scsi/sc0d2l0:  Disk          SEAGATE ST373453LC      DX10
   

   ANSI vers 3, ISO ver: 0, ECMA ver: 0; supports:  16bit synch linkedcmds cmdqueing
   

   Device is  ready
   

   /dev/scsi/sc0d4l0:  CD-ROM        TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5701TA0167
   

   ANSI vers 2, ISO ver: 0, ECMA ver: 0; supports:  reladdr synch linkedcmds
   

   Device is  not ready

OS:

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   janus 1# uname -aR
   

   IRIX janus 6.5 6.5.30f 07202013 IP32

(janus): 400MHz R12k, 576MB, 73GB 15k, modded PSU fan
:Indigo2IMP:

(indigo2): 195MHz R10k, 512MB, SI, 36GB
Sun Ultra80 (mizar): 4x450MHz USII, 4GB, XVR-1200, 2x73GB 15k ZFS
2x :1600SW:

+ML,

195MHz R10k, currently not booting

ivelegacy
From Italy
Who joined Jan. 4, 2015, 5:12 a.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 21, 2015, 2:26 p.m...

well done, excellent upgrade

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my * flawless English * still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.

macroexp
From Falls Church, VA
Who joined Feb. 25, 2004, 8:23 p.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 25, 2015, 8:08 p.m...

Yeah it's really a much better machine now - using it a lot more these days. The 400MHz R12k really speeds up the graphics too, feels like a much more modern machine. I'll probably try to max out the ram and maybe put an Audigy in it, well, just because. I also need a 1600SW adapter to hook it up to one of two I have. It's so strange to have the 1600SW hooked up to a Windows98 machine instead of the O2.

(janus): 400MHz R12k, 576MB, 73GB 15k, modded PSU fan
:Indigo2IMP:

(indigo2): 195MHz R10k, 512MB, SI, 36GB
Sun Ultra80 (mizar): 4x450MHz USII, 4GB, XVR-1200, 2x73GB 15k ZFS
2x :1600SW:

+ML,

195MHz R10k, currently not booting

macroexp
From Falls Church, VA
Who joined Feb. 25, 2004, 8:23 p.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 24, 2015, 11:17 p.m...

Edits to first post and title due to some upgrades to HDD and PSU fan. I also have a Commodore 1084 hanging off the composite output now. I know TV work was one of the design points and practical uses of the O2, but I'm still amazed at how good the NTSC output is. Something about CRT color just seems ... natural.

(janus): 400MHz R12k, 576MB, 73GB 15k, modded PSU fan
:Indigo2IMP:

(indigo2): 195MHz R10k, 512MB, SI, 36GB
Sun Ultra80 (mizar): 4x450MHz USII, 4GB, XVR-1200, 2x73GB 15k ZFS
2x :1600SW:

+ML,

195MHz R10k, currently not booting

ClassicHasClass
Donor
From Sunny So Cal
Who joined July 25, 2012, 7:12 p.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 25, 2015, 5:17 p.m...

I'd love to see a photo of the setup.

smit happens.

:Fuel:

bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy:

indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP:

purplehaze , 175MHz R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from

bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...

dexter1
Moderator
From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at Nov. 9, 2015, 4 p.m...

What replacement fan did you install?

macroexp
From Falls Church, VA
Who joined Feb. 25, 2004, 8:23 p.m.

Wrote the following at Nov. 18, 2015, 8:24 p.m...

I used a Cooler Master R4-BM8S-30PK-R0 - supposedly 40.8 CFM @ 3000 rpm, so about 2/3 of the CFM rating on the original fan, and at that rate it's not the quietest fan in the world. Still, it's just air noise now instead of the whine from the original fan. I wanted to err on the side of too loud vs. too little cooling, so I'm pretty happy with the choice.

I'm working on a photo. The photo's not the problem, it's moving enough of the rat's nest around so you can actually see it

(janus): 400MHz R12k, 576MB, 73GB 15k, modded PSU fan
:Indigo2IMP:

(indigo2): 195MHz R10k, 512MB, SI, 36GB
Sun Ultra80 (mizar): 4x450MHz USII, 4GB, XVR-1200, 2x73GB 15k ZFS
2x :1600SW:

+ML,

195MHz R10k, currently not booting

dexter1
Moderator
From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at Nov. 19, 2015, 2:04 a.m...

According to http://datasheet.octopart.com/FBA08A12U ... 276522.pdf the original Panaflo is specced at 46.9 CFM so your Cooler Master is more like 6/7 of the Panaflo CFM rating. And all that cooling with only 28dB noise, that's very good!

You've wisely chosen for more throughput at the expense of noise. In the case of the R12K i fully agree with your decision.

I am waiting for a few hours downtime so i can pop in my replacement fan: EBM Papst 8412 NGME

SGI: hinv

O2, 400MHz R12000A, 576MB RAM, 73GB HDD