The collected works of hamei - Page 7

YES !!

Two devices, one slot !

Adaptec AUA 3020 rev B, mine is blue . This one has two fullsized firewire ports along with the three USB's, the earlier one had a single fullsized and a mini port.

Systune pciio_multimaster_override 1

reboot

hold breath

And the fahrwahr drive works loverly still. (Had to change the device address where it mounts from is all.)

eBay time for all you Fool owners

recondas wrote: ... enough to pay for a DCD.

I happen to have one of those which I would trade for a faster Fuel cpu ... (800mhz)

schleusel wrote: That ridiculously high DPI IBM display (or the rebadged ViewSonic version) ...

Neat ! Also very cute the way the carefully avoided mentioning the word IBM

The Eizo looks great but three grand ? Do you think they'd offer a sub-prime mortgage on it ?

un_ wrote: I always wondered whether IBM had considered that having the evil agent be such a prominent Warp user might actually be counterproductive to their image

The bad guys always have the better technology. The good guys only win because they are brave honest and true. Also good in bed.

especially since the computer screens seemed to always be showing the startup screen like they were crashing all the time.

That's the screen saver. Warp never crashes. The desktop just locks up solid while your background stuff keeps chugging away. Really annoying.

un_ wrote: .. and since you can't do anything with it to get your stuff back it might as well have blue screened

From a desktop point of view, yeah. Pisses one off altho it got a lot better towards the end. With the smp versions it was better yet. But if you are running mail, ftp, bulletin boards, file serving it's nice to have everything continue no matter what the desktop is doing. Until Lose2k Windows was just shit. Ran Warp 3 smp on an HP Lpr for two years just recently, the only time it was down was when the electricity went off. (In summer that's about once a week. We're pretty third world here.)

Just playing around recently with a 4-cpu Intel IBM, in direct comparison Warp is still way faster than CentOS, Novell Linux, or Open Solaris. That's what I'd use if I had any sense but got the hots for OpenSol ....

thegoldbug wrote: I have about 25 of these in various states of repair and was going to assemble them in to a Beowulf Cluster.

Goldbug, you made my day. Everyone else takes 25 boxes without keyboards and makes a cluster. You take 25 keyboards without boxes and make a cluster. Only on nekochan

oh-oh ?

Have nekoware Python installed and nekoware in the path ...

sgefant wrote: That crash probably is not related to python. Do you have a .B.blend file in your home directory? if not, try creating one by running a older version of blender and pressing ctrl+u. If blender 2.48 works then, you've hit the same bug as I did.

Mmm. See a .Bpib but no .B.blend.

I just downloaded and tried it out to give another data point tho. I'm not a Blender user so when it didn't start I just deleted it. Sorry

Btw, I see Python is up to 2.6 Maybe a newer version would be nice for Nekoware ?

kramlq wrote: HPPA isn't a nice architecture ...

Really ? In what way ?

kramlq wrote: I should be fair and balanced like Fox News.

Ah, the Liberal media !

Thanks, kramlq, laughed out loud at that one

hamei wrote:

kramlq wrote: I should be fair and balanced like Fox News.

Ah, the Liberal media !

Thanks, kramlq, laughed out loud at that one

While we've got you two dissecting the shortcomings in processors, how about the Power lineup ? And where does the Itanic really fit in ? Would it have been the processor to end all processors if it hadn't been such a bust ?

tbcpp wrote: . What's does python -V show on your system? On the dev machine it shows "Python 2.5.2" which is the same as my custom compiled python. You may have an older version of python. I am also using Nekoware python so maybe you need to upgrade?

Wow. I've been using dexter1's mirror for centuries. The newest python there is 2.4.1 Other mirrors have 2.5.2

Dex is a little behind the times

edit :
upped Python to 2.52
Irix 6.5.30
Fuel

No .B.blend and I don't have one lying around. A placebo .B.blend makes no difference

tbcpp wrote: The issue seems to be related only with some blends or the gui, as you can render fine from the commandline.

If this helps, the gui writes to the screen (fullscreen) then the app blows up almost instantly. Now that I think about it, there's a switch to make it start up at less than fullscreen size, I believe ? Maybe can try that tomorrow.

I'm running 1600 x 1200 @ 83 with a V12.

jan-jaap wrote: Received a Fuel from SGI for development work.

Oh god. Oh god. Please say you're going to fix the firewire problems !!!! ?? Okay, sorry. You don't have to say it. Just paw the ground three times for yes, once for no.

P.S. Them's some big shoes on your neighbor, by the way.

jan-jaap wrote: Did you feel one? Sorry to disappoint you, this one is for a different project.

Oh well. At least it's a project, and unless you're gonna get schminux running on that thing it's an Irix project

un_ wrote: Either it was "he'll think this is cool" ...

Cool guys get cool stuff !

I would expect that they have loaners which they send out so they don't have to dip into the retail stock. That's just a guess tho.

modology wrote: There is no doubt that SSD is going to replace HDD technology in next decade.

Dewey Wins By a Landslide ! Dewey Wins !

This is premature but I'm too excited to wait. There's a bunch of LSI 3041X-R cards floating around here for around $25. So what the heck, it's an LSI 1064 chip, can't hurt to try.

Came, looks like a fake with a used LSI chip in the middle - either that or LSI product quality has gone down seriously. Tested it in an x86 kompewter first just in case


and

The hex 1000, device 0050 is the LSI sata/sas card. I don't have a drive to check it with yet but this could be a low-cost answer to the ide-sata-no-scsi-dvdrw-expensive scsi disk problem on the 3xxx platforms, anyhow.

Btw, when did they change reporting an IEEE1394 disk into being a "Fabric Disk" on the wrong controller ? Seems a little strange.

Stay tuned for the further adventures of Dick and Jane ....

Update :



Been a week now, didn't do to-the-death testing but pushed the disk pretty hard, seems reliable and don't see any noticeable speed differences in operation from the 15k scsi disks. Set ioconfig.conf aside and rebooted, Irix re-ordered my hardware inventory to make more sense. Kinda liked having a Fabric Disk for a while tho.

SATA CD-ROM has some problems tho That was one of my major interests in this whole exercise. Grrr.

Four stars .

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Now for something completely different - another compatible piece of hardware : Apple iTouch. No, it doesn't do anything but out of six computers in the office, my Fool is the only one that will charge it thru the USB. Weird

Moderator Edit <recondas>: Split from the Fuel Hardware Aggregator <after the appropriate content was aggregated>.

R-ten-K wrote: I may be having a brain fart here... I have seen the exact same case skins internally inside SGI, but it was a generic x86 ATX machine.

Probably the 230 - 330 ? The only part of a fuel case that's actually different from a peecee is the front plastic thingy.

Dr. Dave wrote: plus the ATX back-panel, and the lack of a stiffening brace across the side, and the drives mount 90 degrees in the brackets. But it's obvious that much of the sheetmetal is shared, just by the holes punched in them and not used. Those ATX cases are quite nice, as far as ATX cases go.

They must be a standard OEM case. I've seen photos of some IBM's and HPs which are exactly the same case, up to the swing-out disk cage where the drives sit at an angle, stiffener bar, everything. Only difference is the front plastic.

I just meant that what R10 saw in the belly of the monster was most likely a 230 or 330. If one were just walking thru then remembering it six years later, it'd be an understandable mistake.

R-ten-K wrote: That being said, following hamei's... it seems the chassis and the side skins of the x86 330/550 are pretty much the same as the SGI fuel. So maybe those are the machines I remember seeing... who knows. My recollection is that the bezel was definitively solid like the fuel though, and looking at the blue fuel that originated this thread was that reminded me of those feecees as looking identical to jj's system. But now, I am all confused in my twilight years...

< Pure conjecture mode > They could have been trying out some front bezel dies on existing hardware before deciding to make the production machines red. Usually you'd want to try a few pieces of a new part before running off thousands so could have been the equivalent of the clear O2 case and they stuck them onto some machines they already had for testing the fit. </Pure conjecture mode >

Or there could have been more than one blue Fuel prototype ... are you sure they were x86 inside ? Or they could have been Itanics running the mythical never-released 4Dwm for Suse Linux

eMGee wrote: I almost forgot about posting my own system!

Looks pretty nice, em ! I believe to get the photos into the gallery you ftp them up. Then neko puts them into a gallery manually.

What version of Irix are you running ? I ask because I also used to get this :


Now I get


The "Fabric Disk" is actually a firewire disk and used to show up the same as yours. I'm reluctantly using 6.5.30, not sure when the reporting blew up. The firewire disk is definitely not on Integral SCSI controller 1. Neither is the firewire CF card reader. The CD-ROM is .

Hoping it's just a reporting issue and not a symptom of something truly fubar. Not sure what changed it or when

recondas wrote: Nice! My first bike was a 1971 BSA 650 Lightning <wish I still had it>.

recondas wrote: hamei - Isn't that Dick Mann?

The one and only ! Back when men were men and sheep ran scared

Looks like maybe San Jose ?

ka0s wrote: But in this case I've put the default Blender startup in .sgidefaults as blender -w -d &

Try this and who knows the -d will give you more info in the shell.

It flashes onscreen for an instant then poof gone (fullscreen, it looks like.)

thorias wrote: ....Maybe with a SATA DVD drive and the LSI SAS3442X-R 8-port SAS/SATA HBA....

Can you try this please before your Fool goes away ? (Really nice one, by the way.) A sata dvd-writer shows up properly here but doesn't work

Edit : tried an Addonics SATA-to-CF converter, which would have solved a lot of memory stick problems with the Fool. Unfortunately it was a miserable failure. At least the DVD writer was recognized ...

Well, looks like the unit is a pos, not even reliable under Windows. So perhaps there is hope for the future.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/reader ... =6007-9392