The collected works of fieldframe

What spec are you looking for? I have an R4400SC 150MHz here that I can live without.
24 bit XL graphics, 2x 2GB drives, RAM negotiable.

Because OpenEXR is no longer supported on IRIX?

Ian,
At the office I use Netgear GS724TS switches. The 'S' on the end is for stackable, something you might not need... These switches have 4 SFP ports, and in my case my two Origins have fibre gig ethernet into these. The GS716 switch might suit you. It has two SFP ports for those pesky fibre cards.

However, you can pick up Intel 510Ts on ebay uk with gig fibre port modules for loose change. The 510T switches don't readily support copper gig ethernet though. We had one of these at a vfx place I used to work at and it performed OK. But then again, we only had Octanes connected to the copper 10/100 ports via their built in ethernet so had no need of anything faster. It was uplinked to a huge Foundry Networks switch via the fibre port.

My most recent ebay purchase was a brand new Octane card cage (still in box!) from Ebay AU (and got a pukka SGI gig copper card bundled in)

mapesdhs wrote: fieldframe writes:

> My most recent ebay purchase was a brand new Octane card cage (still in box!) from Ebay AU (and got a pukka SGI
> gig copper card bundled in)

Ditto. Got 5 a coupla weeks ago, just the cages. Totally unused.

Makes you wonder where these pristine card cages have been hiding all this time, no?
Mind you, mines coming from Australia. Where are yours from?

mapesdhs wrote: I managed to obtain a Netgear 48-port Gbit switch rather cheaply

You did well!

The Netgear switch behind me in my office is completely drowned out by PCs, Octanes, Macs... I wasn't aware that it made any noise at all. Surely the moment you power up an Octane the noise of the switch becomes inconsequential.

LionSGI wrote: hello!

this message comes on the console:

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Starting up the system...

WARNING: Some CPUs have old firmware.  Please update node board flash proms.

thanks!

It's a bug is 6.5.22m and affects bigger Origins too.

Hi guys
The Pacific Title Digital auction is tomorrow, and theres quite a bit of SGI Origin hardware in the catalog.

I want to snag a couple of items from the auction; would someone help me get it shipped from Hollywood to London in return for a sum of money?

http://greatamerican.com/GAGAuction/Auc ... spx?Id=428

pip wrote: Too bad we didn't know about this earlier, there's more than a few of us in SoCal who probably could have (or maybe still can?) figure something out.

There's a lot of good stuff in here. The PDF lists 7 x "SGI ATLIS 350", 6 x "SGI ORIGIN 350", a Tezro (spelled correctly!) and "SGI OMEDIA PRO", and some unspecified "SILICON GRAPHICS CPU'S" and a SILICON GRAPHICS SERVER. The non-SGI stuff looks nice too, lots of Herman Miller chairs, recent Macs, and all kinds of nice displays.

If you could change the post title to indicate that its tomorrow and in LA, maybe we could find some other interested folks.

Done. I think Pac Title also have/had some Onyx3000 machines too. And lots of SGI storage.

modology wrote: Can't register for webcast auction must live in state to do so. Does any nekomember from state can help me out?

I registered, and I'm in England! I just got in touch with the contact at the top of the page (Heidi) and she's cool with me paying by electronic transfer. Can any Neko members go by the facility and pick up some small stuff I'm after? I'll of course cover costs etc.

jdanna wrote: i would love an old v series pantbox.
actually what i really want is a domino

If you are serious, I can hook you up with someone in the UK.
Then you can use my scan/record service to get pictures in and out of it!

eMGee wrote: If not I'd be interested, I've been looking for a cheap Paintbox system for years.

Actually I was thinking I could hook an interested party up with someone in the UK who wouldn't mind shifting a Domino workstation. You do see Paintboxes on ebay from time to time; I nearly bought one from Spain, but I've no use for one and don't really want one for playing with. It went for pretty small money too. You definitely wouldn't want a first generation one - from memory it is pretty much a 39U rack full of 80's TTL chippery which comsumes kilowatts of electricity - but then again you might! This is the same group of people collecting SGIs which consume kilowatts of 'leccy.

For all Quantel stuff I'd recommend talking to Simon Tillyer at Effect Systems (right behind one of the old Quantel buildings in Newbury) to see if he wants to get rid of some old stuff now that he has no more Dominos on support contract.

www.effect.co.uk

This machine isn't a million miles away from me. Catches are; 1) I can't collect before Saturday 28th 2) I can't store it for long. Someone would have to take it off my hands ASAP

If someone is really serious, I'm willing to give it some of my time.

Oh, fuggedaboutit, the auction ended already.

This is one for the IRIX gurus out there.
For some reason not one, but two of my Indigo2s have developed problems with a couple of days.

One machine has a failed SolidImpact board, and the EISA 3Com 3C597 died at the same time. A swift purchase from Ian Mapleson will put this right, but why two boards failed at the same time? Please feel free to speculate. All fans running as they should.

Another is panicing when in production. When put on the bench, it just runs and runs. Typical! I'm using icrash to analyse the crash reports, and I'm seeing something consistent in the crash reports: what is thread lclintr2.4 doing? It is always in this thread when the panic occurs. Any ideas?

This system is using default kernel parameters (unusual for us, normally we tweak the syssegsz and maxdmasz to enable big DMA transfers over SCSI)

*EDIT* : Did a bit more digging with icrash, looks like a GIO problem. Perhaps the second SCSI channel IC (which is in use during production but not on the bench) is going bad?

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CPU SUMMARY
===========

CPU 0 was in kernel mode running an xthread named 'lclintr2.4'

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NMI SUMMARY FOR CPU 0
=====================

REGISTERS FOR CPU 0:

ERREPC: 0x0
SP: 0x0
RA: 0x0

LTICKS FOR CPU 0: 2

STACK TRACE FOR CPU 0:


Could not find a valid stack trace for CPU 0

INSTRUCTIONS NEAR PC IN NMI FOR CPU 0:

No valid ERROR_EPC found in NMI registers.

Crash 2:

===========
CPU SUMMARY
===========

CPU 0 was in kernel mode running an xthread named 'lclintr2.4'

=====================
NMI SUMMARY FOR CPU 0
=====================

REGISTERS FOR CPU 0:

ERREPC: 0x0
SP: 0x0
RA: 0x0

LTICKS FOR CPU 0: 1

STACK TRACE FOR CPU 0:


Could not find a valid stack trace for CPU 0

INSTRUCTIONS NEAR PC IN NMI FOR CPU 0:

No valid ERROR_EPC found in NMI registers.

Crash 3:

===========
CPU SUMMARY
===========

CPU 0 was in kernel mode running an xthread named 'lclintr2.4'

=====================
NMI SUMMARY FOR CPU 0
=====================

REGISTERS FOR CPU 0:

ERREPC: 0x0
SP: 0x0
RA: 0x0

LTICKS FOR CPU 0: 1

STACK TRACE FOR CPU 0:


Could not find a valid stack trace for CPU 0

INSTRUCTIONS NEAR PC IN NMI FOR CPU 0:

No valid ERROR_EPC found in NMI registers.


=======================
SLEEPING PROCESS STATES
=======================

No VBOB on that system; you've got the old HDIO system which outputs HD over the long-obsolete parallel standard. So the four boxes on the back of the rack are serializers/de-serializers. Also you've got a DTF-2 tape drive.

ozpass wrote: I bought the computer from a nice Dutch gentleman living in Reigate, Surrey.

That'd be whiter. I bought an Indigo2 from him, and since he's just down the road from me I picked it up in person - he's got (or did have) a pretty impressive collection of hardware.

Never really wanted to own any hardware just for the sake of it, but there's something about a Crimson that would make me make an exception...

This Abekas beastie doesn't interface with an SGI, but the A60 and A66 video disk recorders do. The A60 (which holds 30 seconds uncompressed standard def video) and A66 (a whole 60 seconds!) connect to a standard ethernet network and you can rcp individual Quantel/Abekas .yuv frames to and from them. I believe you can connect the A66 via SCSI as well. I know the guy who developed the ethernet interface for the A60, he also developed quite a lot of other broadcast stuff for Quantel and SGI over the years.

The A60 was quite a monster, both in terms of rack space and electricity consumption.

Hi guys,
I have a rack Onyx2 in storage that I'd like to go to a good home. It is missing a GFX PSU, but I think Toby Jennings could remedy that. If someone is seriously interested I will purchase the PSU myself and check the GFX is still in PWO.

It has 8x 195MHz CPUs but I can't remember how much RAM. Plastics are all present and in good shape.

Graphics are IR (2x RM7s) from memory. Also has a new (virtually unused, but tested after installation) PSU in the MMSC.

I can put gigabit networking in, and it has a working PCI cardcage.

Offers? Not looking for much, just need the space.

Simon

I've run a rack Onyx2 from a standard UK ring main wall socket quite comfortably. I really wouldn't worry about a deskside machine, it's no harder on the wiring than a 1KW fan heater. As long as you're pretty sure the wall socket is on a ring main you'll be fine.

Come to think of it, I ran a pair of desksides off a single wall socket during production of a recent-ish TV series.

Did anyone else see this already? Read the paragraph at the bottom.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/25 ... page2.html


Simon

I had an SGI (really a Sony trinitron) monitor that did this. Im my case it was caused by anode overvoltage - too many volts on the anode and you start to get X-rays. The monitor has a circuit to detect this and shut down. But I think the flashing error light can mean one of many things - there is a PC program that will help diagnose this, but I can't think of the name right now.

Any interest? I'm now willing to part out the machine. It has good (but not perfect) skins, a working MMSC+display and as far as I recall a working GFX module but needs a new PSU.

I really do have to move this one way or another. The other way is to take it for recycling! I really, really don't want to do this but it's taking a chunk of floor space that I need for something else.

Also have lots of XIO boards and a spare working IO6G.

Hi all,
The rack Onyx2 is being dismantled but the gfx module is probably spoken for.

Parts for Onyx2/Origin 2000
2x IO6G modules (one was a spare)
7x XIO shoehorns with 1Gbit fibre channel boards in
2x XIO dual 1Gbit fibre channel
2x compute module fan trays (one was a spare)
Front LCD display
MMSC


Parts for Octane
1x XIO dual 1bit fibre channel for Octane (no latch hardware)


Hard drives
(lots of) Ex Apple X-RAID HITACHI Deskstar 180GB IDE drives (work fine in PCs)
4x Seagate ST373405FC 73GB fibre channel hard drives
JMR 4 bay fibre channel desktop enclosure for above drives
2x IBM DCAS-34330 4GB 68 pin SCSI
4x Seagate unknown model number 73GB SCA attach drives
Storcase desktop enclosure for above drives, 2x 68pin SCSI host connection

Would like this gone by end of August. Make offers!

Simon