The collected works of ClassicHasClass - Page 9

I have a Presenter, but no cable, so I guess that's the opposite problem?

But Hershey's chocolate is disgusting . I hate that butyric acid aftertaste .

As mentioned in the Amix thread, I landed an Amiga 3000 and A3070 tape drive (who's your daddy, ahem).

To simplify my workstation, I got the bright idea of chaining the tape drive and the SCSI CD-ROM, since both systems should be able to use either device, and just switching off. The A3070 is SCSI ID 4 and the Apple 300i CD-ROM is ID 5, so I hooked them up, terminated the CD-ROM, and connected them to the Indy. In the PROM monitor, looks good:



The A3070 is in fact a CP150 tape drive, so that's correct (it takes QIC150 cartridges), and the Apple is indeed a Sony mech.

Irix 6.5.10 appears to boot fine, so I log in as root and immediately the desktop fills up with these "refXX_to_cartridge" icons infinitely. Eventually I had to kill the power, turn off the tape streamer, reboot, let the drive fsck itself and clean all those icons off the desktop. CDROM works fine, with the tape on or off.

What gives?

Damn. Yup, that's exactly what Irix is doing. Oh well. At least the CD-ROM still works with the Indy and, after a little cussing, I got AmiCDROM to talk to the Apple CD-ROM, so the Amiga can use it too.

Well, thanks for the diagnosis, anyway.

So does the earthworm colony in my lawn.

Very nice, but stick it in the actual SGI: hinv forum where it will be noticed and appreciated.

@vishnu: it's an actual A/C unit - I get antsy about swamp coolers around electronics. The condensate exits with the exhaust. There is a water reservoir if you don't live in the middle of the desert like I do (but I've never had to empty it). This unit is an LG, specifically http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-LP ... B0055DTBOI

Do note that, as a rule, portable A/C units are less efficient than window mounted A/C units. I don't think a lot of people realize that, which is why portable units get bad reviews; people think they're something they're not. In my case, there's a security reason to use the portable device. If a window-mount unit will work for you, you'll probably like it better. I also have a standby A/C unit in the room for emergency cooling but it's never been turned on.

@hamei: simple explanation; the A/C turns off at night, since it detects cooler air in the intake (which is somewhat separated from the rest of the room), so the POWER6 heats up the room unopposed. The A/C is also run in energy saver mode, which turns off the ventilator fan when the compressor is not running. During the day, the air intake is hotter, and the A/C runs.

Well, I have a central unit, but I don't want it running all the time just to keep one room cold (it pulls 5kW, and even though it's a SEER 12 unit, it'll bankrupt me if it has to run all day). I thought about a split unit but right now this is good enough.

How much wattage does the split unit pull?

Back on topic, I did manage to land an Ariadne II network card. It appears Amix doesn't support this card, sadly, but it looks like it should work fine with Workbench 2.1 and AmiTCP 3.0b2. After some cussing, I got the ancient version of CrossDOS on it to read a disk (as di0: , not pc0: ?!) from the Power Mac and got AmiCDROM installed, so now it can read ISO 9660 CDs. This will make things a lot easier.

Then I guess I should get WHDLoad working on it and play some of my old A500 games.

As far as Amix, I'm going to see if the Solbourne will talk to the tape drive. If it will, then maybe I can use the Solbourne to write the install tapes. The Solbourne is a relative of the sun4c family, so I think it will work. As people saw from my other thread, the A3070 does not handle LUNs correctly and freaked out the Indy, so there goes that idea.

The hard disk is something like 97% full. I want to back THAT up first, and I'd probably have to put another drive in. This computer is loaded to the brim with software; it even has CanDo and SAS/C.

I take it the C8K has to use the installation instructions at the top of the page?

You again! Nicely done. What's with the TVLand sticker? Does this machine watch Nick at Nite?

It's a shame O2 plastics are so damn fragile.

Oh, that's awesome! Some of these SGI boxes have great history. My second Fuel had stickers implying it came from a nuclear lab of some sort.

Nice use of Dillo. Very appropriate for the machine.

Congrats. I'm still looking for a cable -- I'll hijack your thread since you got your wish