The collected works of Titox - Page 2

This moorning my mother received the packet from the mail. Just installed and it's in hinv!!!

Surprised with the fast delivery, last time I waited near two months for a ps2 console!!!

Thanks a lot!

Yes. The pinout would be very useful for a lot of people!

Thank you, Canavan.

Finally I got a pair of LVDS cables and I can confirm that the white cable has the same pinout as the black one!

I have an VBOB but I'm still missing some signal converters to try how works.

bjornl wrote: Yes the L3 at the top is a PC running Linux. Someone has just put a label 'L3' on it. I don't know what software is on it or
how to use it (yet).

SGIConsole 2.1 perhaps?

I never found a download o CD media of this software.

There is also a Linux L2 emulator software

Or, Are they the same?

PD: Superb machine... Looks impresive!!!!!

Logged on the new support web. No Irix downloads or Cool Software, just Knowledge Base. Irix is also deleted from the main SGI portal... That's the end!!!

What release of Irix is installed? If I recall correctly you need 6.5.3 to use the SW1600 without patches.

These are the SW1600 vfo files installed by IRIX. It must be in /usr/gfx/ucode/CRM/vof. If you have a diferent folder you have a bad installation (cloned hard disk from Octane or somethink similar).

Forget a problem with the missing PCI riser. I just tested my O2 without it and boots OK with the SW1600, it just complains with "Bad ethernet address".

The OS core is the same for all installations but graphics subsystem is a very different thing as there are diverse versions that are incompatible and only one graphics library can be installed.

So if the OS install if for another graphics system the easy way to solve the problems is to reinstall. May be you can uninstall one type and install another from single user or console but can be difficult.

Cheers!

Check the Troubleshooting Flow Chart in the wiki. Solid red equals a CPU module fault. Try to reseat the CPU and maybe you will be lucky...

At first launch from Cobalt Networks there were three hardware configuracions, one with 300MHz CPU and two with 450 MHz AMD:


Later, after the Sun adquisition, the 450 MHz AMD was the only option, diferencing models in RAM, external SCSI and the software payload:


And at the end there was a OS upgrade:


You can install what cd version you want. Obviously the last version is the best but you can look for the Strongbolt 1 distribution with CentOS 4 and Bluquartz panel (and new ROM) to have the latest possible system. Not sure, but if I recall correctly you can install the RaQ4 OS directly and RaQ 550 OS if you upgrade the ROM. Forget Strongbolt 2.

I don't know anything the type you have but the differences with other Qube 3 of the same specs must be the software included. All the Cobalt servers included development tools but maybe your Qube lacks/has something.

Original datasheet: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19793-01/816-1806/816-1806.pdf
Sun cobalt datasheet: http://www.dataip.co.uk/Hardware/Sun/datasheet.qube3.pdf

BEAUTIFUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

I had a similar problem with my Blade 1500 last month, with the mesagge 'Bad magic number' and 'Can`t create newfs' . My disk partitions started on cylinder 0 while Solaris needs to start on cylinder 1.
I had to delete all partitions, create a new one starting from cyl 1 and relabel the disk. All done from the console of the installer disk.

I was following a guide on the net but I can't find it now but the procedure is similar to one explined in this thread with the format utility:

http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.solaris/newfs-command-failed/92821

I had the same problem to find Studio 12 for my Blade 150 last Christmas. Google + 'ftp' is your solution.

I think I have an original DVD with it but forgot where is now, I have to luck in my library

robespierre wrote: There's no point! Simply create a new account and will have all the defaults.

Not, really. The desktop services were turned off by the Autodesk installer for maximum performance.

Being root:


I think usually I have to enable more services but don't rememer which ones at the moment, I can check this night if necessary.

Not a surprise. Oracle closed Solaris for small workshops and companies with its high price rates and now they have found that there are not enough big companies to support Unix. Microsoft -not only linux- is being a big competitor in the big iron and ERP so it seems that old Unixes are going to be dead in a few years.

Bad. I started with Solaris before Irix and I loved all small web servers and workstations but they are building bad specs systems from 10 years ago.

jan-jaap wrote: I lost all interest in Solaris the moment Oracle got involved.

The same here and I think this happened to a lot of people. The decision to close Solaris 10 to fairly new systems (at the moment of the Oracle adquisition) angered enough people, especially since the pre-release could be installed on those computers.