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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Making a bootable IRIX DVD at March 8, 2004, 9:30 p.m...

I had an error like this with my Plextor Burner. I switched on parity and it went away. Cheers.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of More Dual Head Questions at June 30, 2004, 3:27 p.m...

Omega_Trion wrote: Hi, have a Octane 300MHz with ESSI graphics. My question is can I combine this with a MXI option? I have a Cherokee PS. Thanks

Not in the same machine. You can only have one double slot card per chassis. It has to be in the A/D side of the carrier or the machine will flat out tell you to put it on the other side.

Cheers.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Onyx R10k CPU board question at Aug. 19, 2005, 6:25 a.m...

sgizone wrote: I have a quad R10k board in my Onyx (1) but it is only showing 2 cpu's working. What is the best way to determine if this is a board problem or if those two chips are dead?

Thanks in advance,
James

I have chips with carriers here if you need some. BTW, does anyone know where the clock multiplier is set on these boards??? Is it on the CPU carriers or on the CPU board itself?? They are using a 78MHz Crystal multiplied by 2.5. I would love to increase this to 4x and drop 300MHz R12Ks in them. And of course get the 4MB of cache working. Looks like I found access to some PROM burners, so I am going to dump them this weekend. Hopefully. Cheers.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Deskside Onyx bits and pieces at Aug. 23, 2005, 3:20 p.m...

kshuff wrote:

big_mark_h wrote: I've still got *all* of this stuff. Gues no one else is rebuilding Onyxs these days...

I'm interested, but as you said, shipping to the US is pricey. I bought an Onyx MCO board from a guy in the UK back on July 14th, cost almost $60USD to ship it International Economy 28-30 day delivery. Needless to say I'm still waiting for it.

That sucks!! I wish I would have known that you were looking. Well, if it never shows up I have the BOB-less version here kindly insulating the top of a box for me.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Deskside Onyx bits and pieces at Aug. 24, 2005, 4:11 p.m...

kshuff wrote:

archaic wrote: That sucks!! I wish I would have known that you were looking. Well, if it never shows up I have the BOB-less version here kindly insulating the top of a box for me.

Got it yesterday, box was waiting for me on the porch when I got home from work. It is the BOB-less version

On a side note, are we gonna do the O2k nodeboard and memory deal, never heard back from you.

Yeah. I will get it together tonight. We upgraded our CallManager here at work and our IPCC system went right in the can so i have been living here for awhile. It seems to be happy now so I actually have time to get your stuff ready to go. Cheers.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Onyx R10k CPU board question at Aug. 28, 2005, 9:21 p.m...

thegoldbug wrote: Let us know how this work progresses as I'd like to give my R10ks a shot in the arm also.

I'm willing to send you an R10k board to experiment on. I think I've got at dually somewhere.

thegoldbug

Thanks for the offer, but I have a big stack of them here in 1, 2 and 4 processor versions. Cheers.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of ONYX IR Deskside 4x195 R10K 2MB,2GB, 4 RM6-16, ASO, Sirius at Aug. 30, 2005, 10:38 p.m...

I finally got it upgraded !!!! Much thanks to Joe Gill for the PAB2 to get the Sirius connected!!

EDIT: Might as well update it while I've got it on. It never got updated with the ASO and Sirius.

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   CPU Board at Slot 2: (Enabled)
   

   Processor 0 at Slot 2/Slice 0: 194 Mhz R10000 with 2 MB secondary cache (Enabled)
   

   Processor 1 at Slot 2/Slice 1: 194 Mhz R10000 with 2 MB secondary cache (Enabled)
   

   Processor 2 at Slot 2/Slice 2: 194 Mhz R10000 with 2 MB secondary cache (Enabled)
   

   Processor 3 at Slot 2/Slice 3: 194 Mhz R10000 with 2 MB secondary cache (Enabled)
   

   CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.1
   

   FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.1
   

   Main memory size: 2048 Mbytes, 2-way interleaved
   

   MC3 Memory Board at Slot 1: 2048 MB of memory (Enabled)
   

   Bank A contains 64 MB SIMMS (Enabled)
   

   Bank B contains 64 MB SIMMS (Enabled)
   

   Bank C contains 64 MB SIMMS (Enabled)
   

   Bank D contains 64 MB SIMMS (Enabled)
   

   Bank E contains 64 MB SIMMS (Enabled)
   

   Bank F contains 64 MB SIMMS (Enabled)
   

   Bank G contains 64 MB SIMMS (Enabled)
   

   Bank H contains 64 MB SIMMS (Enabled)
   

   Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
   

   Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C95A, differential, revision 0
   

   Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C95A, single ended, revision 0
   

   Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 1 (unit 1)
   

   Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 1 (unit 2)
   

   CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 1
   

   Tape drive: unit 7 on SCSI controller 1: DLT
   

   ASO 6-port Serial board 0: revision 2.255.255, Ebus slot 3, IO Adapter 5
   

   Integral EPC serial ports: 4
   

   Integral EPC parallel port: Ebus slot 3
   

   Graphics board: InfiniteReality
   

   Integral Ethernet controller: et0, Ebus slot 3
   

   I/O board, Ebus slot 3: IO4 revision 1
   

   Sirius video: unit 0 revision 5 on bus 0 with CPI DGI options
   

   VME bus: adapter 13
   

   VME bus: adapter 0 mapped to adapter 13
   

   EPC external interrupts

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   Graphics board 0 is "KONAS" graphics.
   

   Managed (":0.0") 2048x1120
   

   Display has 2 channels
   

   4 GEs (of 4), occmask = 0x0f
   

   4MB external BEF ram, 32bit path
   

   4 RM6 boards (of 4) 1/1/1/1
   

   Texture Memory: 16MB/16MB/16MB/16MB
   

   Large pixel depth
   

   32K cmap
   

   Sirius video option detected
   

   Channel 0:
   

   Origin = (0,0)
   

   Video Output: 2048 pixels, 1120 lines, 72.00Hz (2048x1120_72.vfo)

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of sgi 540 power issues. at Sept. 8, 2009, 9:03 p.m...

It has been quite a while since I was of any use to anyone, but maybe this will help you figure it out.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of sgi 540 power issues. at Sept. 8, 2009, 9:45 p.m...

That side of the switch is much better than mine. I couldn't get the stupid thing to come out.

From the diagram it looks like you want to connect the purple ones and disconnect the black and brown.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of sgi 540 power issues. at Sept. 9, 2009, 8:30 a.m...

Duh. I have to allow web traffic through the firewall for you guys to see the pictures. I will fix this tonight.

Can anybody see the pictures now?

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of sgi 540 power issues. at Sept. 9, 2009, 5:34 p.m...

recondas wrote: Is there a part number or other manufacturer info on the switch - just in case SGI used an off the shelf part?

It is a Cherry Electric F81JB110 F80 Series Line Interrupt

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Fuel 900Mhz, 4GB, V12, DCD, DM6 at Sept. 11, 2009, 8:14 p.m...

I was able to trade a bunch of stuff for this machine a few weeks ago. This thing is much faster than my Octane! And no, the DM6 doesn't work. The mlquery program shows that it is there but the video daemon refuses to start.

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  Location: /hw/module/001c01/node
  
  IP34 Board: barcode NWW711     part 030-1707-005 rev -B
  
  Location: /hw/module/001c01/node/cpubus/0
  
  IP34PIMM Board: barcode MWX842     part 030-2023-001 rev -B
  
  Location: /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/13
  
  ASTODY Board: barcode NSR591     part 030-1726-006 rev -A
  
  Location: /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/14
  
  IP34 Board: barcode NWW711     part 030-1707-005 rev -B
  
  Location: /hw/module/001c01/Ibrick/xtalk/15
  
  IP34 Board: barcode NWW711     part 030-1707-005 rev -B
  
  1 900 MHZ IP35 Processor
  
  CPU: MIPS R16000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
  
  FPU: MIPS R16010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.0
  
  CPU 0 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice A: 900 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)
  
  Processor revision: 3.0. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 450 Mhz  Tap 0xb
  
  Main memory size: 4096 Mbytes
  
  Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
  
  Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
  
  Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes
  
  Memory at Module 001c01/Slot 0: 4096 MB (enabled)
  
  Bank 0 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 1 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 2 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 3 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
  
  Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
  
  Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, single ended
  
  CDROM: unit 3 on SCSI controller 1
  
  CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 1
  
  Integral SCSI controller 2: Version SAS/SATA LS1068
  
  IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
  
  IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
  
  IOC3 parallel port: plp1
  
  Graphics board: V12
  
  Gigabit Ethernet: tg1, module 001c01, PCI bus 2 slot 2 port 0
  
  Gigabit Ethernet: tg2, module 001c01, PCI bus 2 slot 2 port 1
  
  Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 001c01, pci 4
  
  Iris Audio Processor: version MAD revision 1, number 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1102, device 0x0004) PCI slot 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1102, device 0x7003) PCI slot 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1102, device 0x4001) PCI slot 1x
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1648) PCI slot 2
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1648) PCI slot 2
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1216) PCI slot 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1000, device 0x0054) PCI slot 2
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10ee, device 0xd151) PCI slot 3
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 4
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1045, device 0xc861) PCI slot 5
  
  SD-DIGVID Standard Definition Digital Video: unit 0, revision 2.71.0
  
  HUB in Module 001c01/Slot 0: Revision 2 Speed 200.00 Mhz (enabled)
  
  Dual Channel Display
  
  IP35prom in Module 001c01/Slot n0: Revision 6.210
  
  USB controller: type OHCI
  
  USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type keyboard
  
  USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type mouse

And the graphics Info

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  Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.
  
  Managed (":0.0") 1920x1200
  
  BUZZ version B.2
  
  PB&J version 1
  
  128MB memory
  
  Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3
  
  Monitor 0 type: Unknown
  
  Dual Channel Display option
  
  Monitor 1 type: SAM 1055    Monitor 2 type: Unknown
  
  Input Sync: Voltage - Video Level; Source - Internal; Genlocked - False
  
  Channel 0:
  
  Origin = (0,0)
  
  Video Output: 1920 pixels, 1200 lines, 60.00Hz (1920x1200_60p)
  
  Video Format Flags:  (none)
  
  Sync Disabled
  
  Using Gamma Map 0

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of DM6? at Sept. 12, 2009, 11:41 a.m...

QuicksilverG4 wrote:

Can you share that?

X2

There is no ml_audio package in the drivers from SGI BTW.

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of DM6? at Sept. 13, 2009, 7:34 p.m...

I tried flashing with the flash71 program in that directory and I get the same thing with the video daemon. Strange thing is that it did build a /dev/video/divo at one point, but the video daemon still wouldn't start. Here is the output of the dvsinfo command from the sdk.

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  dvsinfo (? for help): 2
  
  dma_init: Allocate of dma page buffer failed
  
  RASTERNAME '' rasterid:00000000/0
  
  0:hdio_xilinx_program:chip:0 version 1.13 previous 0.0
  
  hdio_xilinx_program: Programming chip 0 with version 1.13
  
  0:hdio_xilinx_program:chip:1 version 1.19 previous 0.0
  
  hdio_xilinx_program: Programming chip 1 with version 1.19
  
  sdio_sdram_init: Module with Rows:12 Columns:8 banks:1 banksize:32 Total 32 MB
  
  sdio_sdram_init: Memorysize 33554432 (32 MB)
  
  flash_configuration(ps): Flash: 01/c7
  
  flash_configuration(ps): Size:00200000,Mapsize:00080000,Type:2
  
  Flash map 0 contain pci 'SDBoard-Fallback (61a3) PCI_3.3V' 01e0db3c 00000000
  
  Flash map 1 contain pci 'SDBoard-Fallback (61a5) PCI_5.0V' 01e1b49f 00000000
  
  Flash map 2 contain pci 'SDBoard-20040218 (71a3) 3.3v' 01e2b674 00000000
  
  Flash map 3 contain pci 'SDBoard-20040218 (71a5) 5.0v' 01e1da32 00000000
  
  sdio_epot_write(16)
  
  Default syncout wrong
  
  Default syncoutdelay wrong
  
  000001:Display field changed  fieldbit:0
  
  000000:Correction for record/display phase shift
  
  411976:hal_GetTickAdjust: Overrun
  
  sdio_video_vsync_display: Record vsync on
  
  000418:Display field changed  fieldbit:1
  
  000419: sdio_irq_handler(ps0) Display IRQ was lost
  
  000419: sdio_irq_handler(ps0) Record IRQ was lost
  
  001494:Changing to recordsync:1 (0/0)

It looks like it is not able to initialize the card properly, although the mlquery shows the card just fine.

Code:

  fuel 1# mlquery
  
  SYSTEM: fuel.xercystsolutions.com
  
  DEVICES:
  
  nullXcode:0
  
  sd-digvid:0

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel 900Mhz, 4GB, V12, DCD, DM6 at Sept. 14, 2009, 2:24 p.m...

Thanks! It may have a firewire card in it soon if the DM6 keeps refusing to cooperate!

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Fuel 900Mhz, 4GB, V12, DCD, DM6 at Sept. 15, 2009, 6:50 p.m...

mapesdhs wrote:

Woohoo! Welcome to the 900 club! 8-)

I think the membership just doubled.

(anyone else have one?)

I just used an internal-only SAS card btw (4-port), from here .

What disks does your system have? I've been upgrading over time, now have a 300GB 15K system, 300GB 10K Data,
and a 1TB SATA.

Btw, have you tried measuring the power consumption?... *grin*

Ian.

I saw a processor module sell on E Bay so there is potentially three of them in existence. I just have the 146Gb 10K that came with it. I have a SATA drive that was an RMA return but I don't have a cable for the SAS controller that works. I have the one that turns 4 SATA connections into a 32pin connection, not the 32-pin into 4 SATAs. The one I need is wired crossover and this one is straight through. I just bought this one because it was $25. I had already been looking at that auction.

I hooked up the Kill-a-Watt and it seems to pull around 250W. Not bad compared to the ONYX IR.

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel 900Mhz, 4GB, V12, DCD, DM6 at Sept. 15, 2009, 8:52 p.m...

foetz wrote:

900 rocks, congrats

Thanks!

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel 900Mhz, 4GB, V12, DCD, DM6 at Sept. 16, 2009, 9:02 p.m...

mapesdhs wrote:

archaic wrote:

... I have the one that turns 4 SATA connections into a 32pin connection, not the 32-pin into 4 SATAs. The one I need is wired crossover and this one is straight through.

I assume the spare cables I received with my card are of no use? (re that auction)

Btw, anyone have a SFF8470/SFF8470 cable (or cables) I could borrow/buy/whatever please? I need to test out some SAS
cards I bought which only have external connectors, but they didn't come with any cables.

Ian.

I'm afraid not. This is the card that I have. http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/product ... sas3080xr/ It requires SFF-8484 to SATA cables.

When I get them I can hook up 8 internal drives though

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel 900Mhz, 4GB, V12, DCD, DM6 at Sept. 17, 2009, 6:09 p.m...

archaic wrote:

mapesdhs wrote:

archaic wrote:

... I have the one that turns 4 SATA connections into a 32pin connection, not the 32-pin into 4 SATAs. The one I need is wired crossover and this one is straight through.

I assume the spare cables I received with my card are of no use? (re that auction)

Btw, anyone have a SFF8470/SFF8470 cable (or cables) I could borrow/buy/whatever please? I need to test out some SAS
cards I bought which only have external connectors, but they didn't come with any cables.

Ian.

I'm afraid not. This is the card that I have. http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/product ... sas3080xr/ It requires SFF-8484 to SATA cables.

When I get them I can hook up 8 internal drives though

I would never put 8 in it. No need when you can hook up TB drives to it.

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Octane Porn at Oct. 15, 2009, 5:02 p.m...

I dug this out of storage finally. I like this picture so much I just changed my Avatar!

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Octane Porn at Oct. 15, 2009, 5:06 p.m...

zackwatt wrote: HOLY CRAP!

That graphics card is amazing!

What is is called?

That would be Dual DCD V12 cards in a special XIO carrier.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Octane Porn at Oct. 15, 2009, 7:03 p.m...

pierocks wrote: What on earth was this machine used for originally?

I'm not sure. This was put together a part at a time. The carrier I found with 1 V12 DCD in it. I already had the other one.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Octane Porn at Oct. 15, 2009, 7:06 p.m...

sybrfreq wrote: nice to see all those little blanking spots filled with useful toys

oh man, I'm getting a headache looking at that

added: I'm not sure if it would be able to get my heart racing quite like a loaded onyx deskside though

You mean like this?

I know, it's not a Deskside.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Octane Porn at Oct. 15, 2009, 7:25 p.m...

sybrfreq wrote: yeah, though I said onyx and not onyx 2. Still puts a smile on your face. With the onyx there's always that little thought in the back of your mind that the thing will blow up in your face as soon as you turn the key

Sorry. I need to read a bit better.

I had a Deskside ONYX2 let out the magic smoke on me one time.

My ONYX is way in the back in storage. It is the one that I had 4 RMs in with the Rack Power Boards. I'll snap some pics when I get to it.

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Wrote on the subject of Discreet Stone problems at Oct. 15, 2009, 7:54 p.m...

Timberoz wrote:

I go to Partition & click on <new> & it opens the Framestore Setup window.
I can see that the stonefs has no partitions & plenty of free space. I change the default NTSC tab to PAL click on 4:3 change the name to PAL TEST the apply (ERROR : VOLUMEMGT: PARTITION NAME IS TOO LONG OR CONTAINS INVALID CHARACTERS) so instead I have PAL & click "Apply"

It does not like spaces in the name. If you press enter after you type it it should go ahead and put the underscores in there for you and set the project directory to the same name.

As far as the crashing, I don't know.

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Octane Porn at Oct. 15, 2009, 8:15 p.m...

sybrfreq wrote: yeah, though I said onyx and not onyx 2. Still puts a smile on your face. With the onyx there's always that little thought in the back of your mind that the thing will blow up in your face as soon as you turn the key

I finally got the joke. Man I must be tired. :lol:

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Wrote on the subject of Octane Porn at Oct. 15, 2009, 10:36 p.m...

zackwatt wrote: Well, if you ever want to sell it, *cough* I think I could take it off your hands....

I might actually take you up on that. I owe some money to some people, and my wife's car needs to be fixed.

Patrick

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Wrote on the subject of Octane Porn at Oct. 15, 2009, 11:57 p.m...

ramq wrote: Holy crap. That's some serious hardware right there!
Was the dual-V12/DCD a lucky score or did you use the big bucks?

I actually traded stuff for every bit in that machine. All it is missing is a dual 600 CPU module, and maybe some more RAM. It only has one 600 in it.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of ONYX IR Deskside 4x195 R10K 2MB,2GB, 4 RM6-16, ASO, Sirius at Oct. 20, 2009, 9:05 p.m...

sybrfreq wrote: interesting, how does it like the 4 rm6 boards? Most docs say you can only have two in a deskside due to power/cooling requirements.

er... mind the date...

It seems to like it fine. As long as you channel the air over the Power boards it seems to be no big deal. I have a half finished extended power board box from about 5 years ago. I am swapping cards right now, and the RMs and the GE were not even warm after being on for a few hours. Wish I could put six it it.

I am looking for slot assignments for two RMs right now. Cheers.

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Wrote on the subject of PMC RM7000C-600T CPUs on ebay at Oct. 23, 2009, 9:06 p.m...

The Keeper wrote:

XR52 and XR55 sounds to me like Xyratex. Xyratex, from what I recall, doesn't play silly games with the sector size, so I would be willing to wager that the drives you have there are either "normal" or can be made "normal" with a small amount of effort using Seagate's SeaTools Enterprise Edition (free download from Seagate).

Chris

You can actually do it under Irix with fx as well. You go in and change the geometry from 520 to 512 byte sectors and the Low level them. It seems to take less than 20 mins. I did three NetApp trays at the same time by opening fx for each drive. It was a pleasent suprise last weekend as I thought I was going to have to spend a week doing it a drive at a time.

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Wrote on the subject of New 27" iMac! at Oct. 27, 2009, 8:56 p.m...

QuicksilverG4 wrote:
Maxed out version is 27" 2.8 GHz quad-core i5 with 2 TB hard drive and 16 GB! Didn't bother pricing that since no one should by RAM from Apple...

The top end actually has the i7 chip in it.

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Wrote on the subject of ONYX IR Deskside 4x195 R10K 2MB,2GB, 4 RM6-16, ASO, Sirius at Nov. 6, 2009, 10:16 a.m...

sybrfreq wrote: Did you ever try and run 4RM6s with just two 303 power boards? It should be possible as that would put out the same 3.3V amperage as two 2x305 boards. Of course you lose the surplus 5V power for the VME slots...

Also, I am guessing you are running 240V?

I never had any single 303 power boards. My Onyx was an RE2 with Sirius from Baylor Medical. I got the IR stuff out of a rack system and upgraded it.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Rumors of Oracle ending Solaris development at Dec. 17, 2016, 5:50 a.m...

It looks like Oracle is building Linux for SPARC. I wonder how much progress they have made since 2015.

https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of PayPal Donation Link Added (plugin requires Prosilver theme) at Dec. 17, 2016, 2:31 p.m...

I had never noticed this thread (or the button) myself. Jut sent some cheddar your way Pete.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Indigo2 R10K/195MHz| 1GB | HI-AA w/ TRAM | EISA 100Mb | I2 Video at March 22, 2017, 8:22 p.m...

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   FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
   

   CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.5
   

   1 195 MHZ IP28 Processor
   

   Main memory size: 1024 Mbytes
   

   Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte
   

   Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D
   

   Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
   

   Tape drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0: DAT
   

   CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 0
   

   Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93B, revision D
   

   On-board serial ports: 2
   

   On-board bi-directional parallel port
   

   Graphics board: High-AA Impact/TRAM option card
   

   Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
   

   Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 1.1.0
   

   Indigo2 video (ev1): unit 0, revision 4.
   

   EISA bus: adapter 0

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   Graphics board 0 is "IMPACTPC" graphics.
   

   Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024
   

   Product ID 0x0, 2 GEs, 1 RE, 4 TRAMs
   

   MGRAS revision 3, RA revision 5
   

   HQ rev A, GE11 rev B, RE4 rev A, PP1 rev A,
   

   VC3 rev A, CMAP rev DMC rev D
   

   21" monitor (id 0xb)
   

   Video board present
   

   

   Input Sync: Voltage - Video Level; Source - Internal; Genlocked - False
   

   Channel 0:
   

   Origin = (0,0)
   

   Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 60.00Hz (1280x1024_60)
   

   Video Format Flags:  (none)
   

   Sync Disabled
   

   Using Gamma Map 0

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of Indigo2 R10K/195MHz| 1GB | HI-AA w/ TRAM | EISA 100Mb | I2 Video at March 30, 2017, 6:38 p.m...

Trippynet wrote: Nice little system you've got there, very nice in fact! Any chance of some pictures?

I am currently having an issue with my photobucket. I will get some pictures posted up later.

Patrick

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archaic
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Wrote on the subject of RM11 Component values at June 13, 2017, 8:10 p.m...

Can anyone with an RM11 board give me the values for some of the missing components on my board?

P7K2B - Section RK
R2H7B - Section RH

Both of these components are on the bottom board of the set (FAB NO: 034-1650-003) on the closest right corner with the back plane connectors facing you.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Patrick

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