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That is incredible. Don't they have UPSes themselves? Or do they assume everyone just uses Apple laptops?

Don't leave us in suspense. If these are publicly available somewhere else, my 5.1bmumble system would love it.

It seems the specific design of the IOMMU would prevent malicious firmware on the card from getting back into the full address space, though I don't think anyone's tested that. The Phoronix thread talks about it a little (see below).

Since I last pimped this mercilessly, Raptor has dropped the price to a flat $3000 and there are now some early benchmarks up from them and Phoronix -- which means it actually does exist, at least in prototype form. The current rumour is that they'll need 2000 requests to do a production run. I sent them an E-mail to clarify, but haven't heard back yet. I'll just link my blogpost, since there are a number of links in it.

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2016/02/ ... ower8.html

Or just unplug the data cable?

nyef wrote: Okay, how about having another system (say an RPi or similar) monitor the UPS and when it has a power failure it can ssh over to the OSX box and issue a shutdown?

Amusingly, I had a system doing exactly that. It monitored an IP camera and when the IP camera went down, it assumed the worst and forced shutdowns. (If the switch blew up, then nothing happened.)

But now that the POWER6 has dual power supplies, if the one connected directly to wall voltage goes offline but the UPS one stays up, it can now automatically respond to that internally.

SIP sucks so bad for these kinds of OS self-repairs.

I mean, we shouldn't have to do OS self-repair, but SIP makes it even worse.

seclorum wrote: I just wanted to say: THANK YOU for this resource. I know I'm grave-digging this thread, but this little effort you've made has given new life to an O2 and an Indy that are now no longer collecting dust.

And, in case anyone else needs this and can't do it themselves, contact me. For the price of a beer, I'll happily make this cable for you. Cheers michaelpastras!

If you're serious, you're on. Where are you located?

Ha! I usually short-cut through Delano to avoid that chokepoint on the 99 between Goshen and the Kern county line, though occasionally I'll take Rt 43 down and go through Shafter that way.

Working on resurrecting Linux for the Dreamcast with an impossibly old kernel.

I use fsel a lot. I was surprised isel was not in Power Macs.

You probably need the DMedia 1.1 beta drivers, see rec's post here: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16724415#p7333432

The Matsushita camera should work, at least.

That would be my guess. If you go back earlier in the thread, you can see where I capture .dv (I called it MTS at the time but rec found it it was a regular DV stream) off my ADVC-300 and that should work for your camera. If that works, you've joined the FireWire club.

Nice look!

Please, don't post the rms free software song again. I had just recovered.

Lots of LAX traffic around here. Currently in SYD myself visiting the fiancee. Didn't get too badly assaulted by the LAX crew on my way over, but I had to repair my shoe with volatile compounds, so there's still time for a full cavity search on the return leg. At least it'll keep me awake.

Just remember that back in the day there was XENIX too.

The sync "error" is known; the SCSI2SD only supports async. It shouldn't affect anything other than being incredibly annoying.

I don't know about the Indy, but any speed difference on my Solbourne was marginal at best. It's mostly convenience and greater reliability than these aging older SCSI drives.

That sounds like a termination problem.

Very interesting!

I still have a whole lot of spare "Ready for PowerPC upgrade" stickers I need to deface the local Apple Store with.

It's what happened to me with pinball machines. And I only have two!

I remember something like this getting pkgsrc bootstrapped on my Ultra-3 and I don't remember how I fixed it. What gcc version?

I love the setup but not $8K of love. Still, wish I could get the serial console and floppies.

I have an IMSAI 8080 but I've had no joy getting a serial console up on it. It does work with the front toggles and runs simple programs that way, so it's probably a matter of rehabilitating the ports or something.

I got followup mail from Raptor: "We are rapidly approaching the interest level required to make Talos a reality."

Currently the pricepoint is $2700 for the mo'bo', heatsink and I/O plate. Unfortunately, the CPU is now being sold separately. The baseline 8-core 130W POWER8 part is $1000, so total base cost is $3700 plus whatever options you want to add. I'm assuming the price change is based on exactly how many interest entries they got.

I'm still planning to pick up two and replied to the included link with a reservation for two, though I'll only build out one and use the other as spare parts. I'm interested to see what they'll sell the 12-core 190W part for. They are not accepting money yet, but will be taking deposits soon with the rest payable prior to shipping.

That seems a bit steep, though his isn't the bare unit. I think I paid around $2700 for mine, which was roughly a year ago?

necron2600 wrote: Could AmigaOS or MorphOS (runs on PPC macs) run on this?

Potentially in big-endian mode, but you'd still need to have platform support for what's on board, and I don't know if the motherboard supports anything but little-endian POWER8 (given that all the supported Linuces are all little-endian).

It's possible they could run in virtualization, though for me Mac OS X would be more useful, since in my case this unit is supposed to be a follow-on from my faithful Quad G5.

No, I know it works, because I have a pkgsrc-built curl on my Solaris 10 Ultra-3. Same compiler, gcc 3.4.3.

However, while trying to figure out why so I could tell you, the machine had a heat failure and crapped on the file system. So, guess I'll be reconstructing that. Anyway, it *does* work.

And, by the way, I'm pretty furious at it right now.

Picking through the ashes, it appears it built libnbcompat as part of bootstrap. So I'm surprised your system didn't do that.

Wouldn't think so, though tbh I don't have those in my path.

I looked at your bsdinstall warnings. Those shouldn't have caused a fatal error except that -Werror was on. You've also got a -DHAVE_NBCOMPAT_H=1. Did something else build it?

I'm strongly suspecting your path is indeed to blame. I'm not at the machine right now (I finally pieced /usr back together) but ISTR I had some similar glitch. However, it didn't get anywhere near as far as you until I thinned it out.

I might want one as a spare. I've just got the one for my Tadpole-RDI UltraBook IIi. How much are you asking for them?

That's not necessarily a killer. Let me know the total damages when you have a firmer estimate.

G5s can still do a lot. They're not thrifty on power but with the right workload (they have steel testicles for FPUs) they can still be useful. The main problem with the G5 is that Apple, like Apple usually does, criminally undercached them. They really chug on branchy code that causes lots of cache misses. In the TenFourFox G5 JIT it's usually faster to "manually speculate" (execute both sides or do lots of precomputation expecting success and select the value rather than branch to the right code block first).

At least the Quad has 1MB per CPU, but even that's not enough.

Dude. Power Macs and alcohol DO NOT MIX.

I have no idea, I don't know what it installs If you have nothing else on there, wiping would certainly be simplest.

Having had to administer a K250 back in the day, HP-sUX is unsexy. sam is also occasionally byzantine (it makes smit look like a miracle of design by comparison). But, it does work, and like AIX (in my experience) it's pretty reliable.

Sitting at the Sydney airport.

Well, the FireGL cards weren't bad for the day. When I was a consultant slut, I maintained a C3750 the biology department had an NSF grant for doing protein visualization on.