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chicago-joe wrote: I have little doubt that these boards will easily take the RM7900-900MHz cpu chips (when I get them) and still have a life of years.


How much is the 900MHz model?

I would be willing to provide you one if you have the board to test with.

I wouldn't mind going through the trouble just to know that I will be able to do the same to my O2. :D
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assyrix wrote: I don't know about the Sierra processors but would imagine that (especially) the 900MHz version dissipates far more heat than the CPU it replaces.


If that was the case, would it be possible to use a chassis from a R10k? It provides the space for more cooling due to heat.

With drives so cheap, I wouldn't have a problem with eliminating the second drive bay.

I am sure there is more to the R10k than just the mobo tray and that it would be a matter of gutting both an R5k and R10K O2 to get it to work but it would be worth the upgrade.
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I ahve to throw my 2 cents in and state that I am using an IRIX baox for pretty much the same tasks. Web/2D and typical office tasks. As for Cosmocreate, I find BLUEFISH to be sweet. I would like a very good vector program to use but Gimp and Bluefish are the two key apps for me. There are alot of font issues to resolve but if I can get what I design on the IRIX box to render the saem on a Mac or PC then I am happy.

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Where is the pictures of the SGI booth?
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PM sent about O2+.
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If any of you have the O2Cam in the Charcoal like the one posted below, please let me know. This will complete my ultimate O2+ setup.

Would $100 be enough for one of you with this item to let it go?

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/File:SGI_O2Cam.jpg

Thanks and if I can get this shipped to me before the end of next week, I would be happy to pay extra for the shipping.

Just PM me.

Cheers,
Rev.

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Well, I guess I will jump on this thread. I just received my ACARD 2160H today and I have had SGINERD's O2+ waiting for something special. I am going to waste an Intel 710 300gb SSD on mine. The Intel 710 was designed to be used behind raid arrays without TRIM. Mostly found in Sun and Cisco UCS servers. It has an extra 180gb NAND on the drive and the advanced firmware for garbage collection should do the trick.

I will be that douche driving down the street in a $500 car sporting $5k rims.

rooprob wrote:
Incidentally, for those feeling daring, you _can_ get two disks in an R10K O2 without breaking anything. It's a little precarious but the SSD on a naked ARS card (sans chassis) will hang in the otherwise obscured SCA socket. You can remove the PCI cage so long as you put the PCI card back in and leave enough space. I didn't have any other means to clone the disk.


That seems like a job for a 3D printer, rooprob. I am sure someone on here could design the right bracket for it. :roll:

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You all have always had a picture of me. My avatar is a scan of my actual drivers license photo. I had to stand inline looking like that for more than an hour for that shot. It always gets a double take when going through security at the airport.

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I would hope most of you know what KOL is.

http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/

It has to be the best game you can play on your IRIX box.

If you play, just let me know and feel free to join the Bored@work clan as well.

I am the bringer of Meat!

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mia wrote:
Make sure to run diskperf this could be interesting.


I will be happy to do just that. I am sure I will need to call on a few of you to help me with running these tests.

mila wrote:
Just a question. If you not have trim support in the driver, how can the drive itself make "garbage collection" without knowing the filesystem?

This flash must be erased prior to write which means that if I write a file foo.c and then rm foo.c, the file system only removes the "pointer" to the file, so how can the SSD firmware "erase" it?

Or does the "latest" SSD without "need" for trim just are pretty quick in erasing then non 0xff sectors in the flash?


It has been a while since my various reviews of these and other enterprise drives and I maybe misusing the term "garbage collection" but it more boiled down to the modifications to the firmware found in on Intel 320 to make it more aware of the additional NAND left for redundancy and such. Either way it made me focus on acquiring these at the best price possible for a small CloudStack setup I am working on with some older Altix XE servers.

Lower power consumption and noise is important but not as important as data integrity and knowing what I want to end up using the O2+ for, I want to feel rather good about what is to be stored on it. I will then build me a primary box out of a Fuel with an Intel 710 for boot and a couple striped Intel DC S3700 drives. I assume there are no pci based SAS controllers supported under IRIX that are 6Gbps?

Rev.

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Yes, the pop culture references are great. There are so many throughout the game. Let me know your username on kol and I can send you some meat.

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That is great. I will send you 100k meat. As for the adventures, you can get more by eating and drinking. The better the food and the drink, the more adventures it will give. Just remember not to get too drunk. :roll:

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It has been awhile but I did get IRIX installed. Unfortunately, I only got discs that get me to .9 so I either need to find someone locally to help image my original SCSI drive or get the overlays that I need. This is the point where I kick myself in the a** for selling my modest collection thinking I was done. Either way I will run diskperf this week so you all can make fun of me for blowing my wad on barely a modest gain. ;)

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smj wrote:
I'm probably missing something, but a free Supportfolio account should still let you download the 6.5.22 overlays right to the O2, and I believe they should work fine with 6.5.9 - and don't forget to apply patch 5086 before the .22 overlay.


Thanks SMJ. It has been so long I hadn't even thought about that. I should have posted this when I meant to a month or more ago. I will get to updating asap. :roll:

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I can confirm that an SSD works as could a few others here on the forum. As for the noise I was hoping for the same thing but as jan-jaap stated, it was designed to provide proper airflow if needed. To be honest, I was still considering the fan swap until his better explanation as to why it may not be best. Short of anything populating the PCI slot, my O2+ is maxed. I am a bit fortunate as I just moved and my new space is naturally nosier than the last and the O2+ is not too noticeable anymore even with having it on my desk.

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Well, I just moved recently and no longer have a room to use as an office but I got this odd space in the hallway that I have been working on getting together as my workspace. I still have a lamp to hang and to decide on what will really stay as far as art and shelving. The right cable management should hide all of the mess under the desk. The desk is welded steel with wood from the floor of a bowling ally as top. ;)
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guardian452 wrote: That's badass.


Thank you. I still have a good bit of work to do to get it all setup. There needs to be an 800 - 900Mhz Fuel under that desk as well.

vishnu wrote: Is that a Lineman's Test Set dangling from the top right in the third picture?


Yes it is. Was not sure where to put it just yet. I spent years tracing lines out and such. I keep some of the old phone stuff around. It is such a small space, I am not sure how to fit all my computer/phone/classic car/le mans/f1 stuff. I will have to keep most of the toys in storage. :)
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I know I haven't posted often nor in a long time but I am still active with my IRIX use and trolling this forum but I still love all you guys who really make this site what it is and I should be ashamed for not making an effort for contributing more but I digress.

I want to keep the discussion of security alive more than ever. I am working on a project for fun that requires a few questionable tricks to make work but it does make the need for security more important than ever. I am working on providing the first ever and I assume to be the only ever, Bare-Metal provisioning of IRIX/MIPS. I know that there is no market for it nor any real use but I want to provide for the fun and amusement. If it was not for this site, I wouldn't have a chance in hell of pulling it off. I am a network engineer by trade and happen to love Ansible. It's dependency primarily on SSH makes this possible and for the tasks that I cant yet pull off solely on MIPS, I am using x86. I will note that any x86 machine used was sold and manufactured by SGI/Supermicro. :) This consists of an SGI 1100 and various Altix XE servers.

Anywho, any methods for securing and packages worth adding/removing to build the best IRIX 6.5.30 install base would be greatly appreciated. The first phase should be for a base install and the second should be for select-able options as a stack. The real trick is dual network interfaces and booting via fiber allowing for multiple pre-built images to save time and allow for quick re-imaging on the back-end. Using Ansible to talk to the core network switch and SAN it key and being sure the Boot/PROM are never effected.

Also, I want to host an online Quake server for IRIX users. The use of the server would be free but require a sign up process for requesting access to scheduled competition/co-op and allowing connection via an individual's IP to be orchestrated by building the custom ACL to allow the connection for each player. This would be to attempt to keep attacks and compromises to a minimum.

Cheers,
Rev.Bubba
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Is there a way to use or setup an SGI config to monitor and record multiple video channels for a CCTV setup for security? Ridiculous and over complicated I know and far out of scope but that is what I want to waste my time and money on. What are your thoughts? I am thinking small Sony lcd monitors and such. If you think it is not too stupid, what should I start looking for to acquire for the setup?

Thanks,
Rev.
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Sorry for the late response. I may create a new post as to not highjack this thread as this discussion on security recommendations is important.

As for your first question, I am really attempting to cheat by basing it on the IRIX Bare Metal Recovery found at the link below.

http://www.backupcentral.com/wiki/index ... l_Recovery

There is much to alter with that method listed but starting with a vanilla 6.5.30 install, I want much of the orchestration for packages and user settings and such. There are options that enable and disable switch ports on the private network after provisioning leaving access via the automatically assigned public IP etc. That is the general idea.

I have been wondering about the benefit of control via console as well and if using an L1 or L2 controller would be worth playing with. I just need to understand it's use for anyone who has or still does use them. I admit that I may be misunderstanding the point of the device as well.

Rev.
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I could have been more detailed in my response but like most projects, low quality analog would do. Two channels would be enough but having at least 4 would be nice as well. I was driven by the idea of an overprices video editing setup for it as I have no use for the equipment for what it is intended for but thought it might be fun and funny.
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I wish you were in Atlanta. :(
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RoboInst, that sounds awesome but I understand Dexter1's point. Considering the issue with creating a true bare metal service, I had been looking for a way to cheat. It is also why I was wondering about FC HBA options and booting from SAN. Keeping fresh images for a quick inst by way of pointing to or re-assigning volumes was one thought. Is there not any way to handle all the fx partitioning and even a full install via the console port? If so that would be the way to go.
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dexter1 wrote: As for 1) most older workstations just cold reset when you powercycle by either pressing the button or pull and reconnect the plug.


I had planned on using a switched PDU to allow for a system not in use to stay offline until needed and also for reboots. That would be rather simple as well.

robespierre wrote: You could automate the earliest stage of installation by using a terminal server connected to each machine's console port.


That was my thought as well. It was about the only use I thought I may have for the SGI 1100 server. Add one of these pci cards and you should be good to go.

http://www.comtrol.com/rocketport-multi ... i-octa-db9

It would have many other uses as well.
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