The collected works of jan-jaap - Page 18

jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of R3000 Indigo CR2032 hack at Oct. 2, 2014, 2:27 p.m...

I had two Indigo R3000 boards run out of battery (the infamous 'can't set TOD clock' bug) in a matter of days.

The original batteries (Tadiran, Sonnenschein) are pretty expensive so I decided a CR2032 hack was appropriate. Here's the result:

Chyron Centaur Video option board mounted again. As you can see, clearance is not a problem.

Oh, and they work fine again of course. The CR2032 a somewhat lower voltage (3V versus 3.6V) but considering the price of CR2032 cells I don't really care if they last a little shorter

To accentuate the special identity of the IRIS 4D/70, Silicon Graphics' designers selected a new color palette. The machine's coating blends dark grey, raspberry and beige colors into a pleasing harmony. ( IRIS 4D/70 Superworkstation Technical Report )

jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of R3000 Indigo CR2032 hack at Oct. 5, 2014, 12:40 p.m...

thegoldbug wrote: How are you attaching the battery holder to that IC?

Two component glue. It's an SMD style battery holder so all it takes is a surface without circuit traces or via's. There are several via's in the PCB area around the original battery location so I opted for the nearest IC large enough to glue it to.

twix wrote: Nice. My soldering skills are totally inadequate, so I went out and bought the Tadiran (ouch!) for my Indigo.
BTW, you don't happen to have a spare keyboard for the Indigo?

Last time I looked (and that was several years ago), cheapest 'genuine' was the Sonnenschein which cost me ~ 14EUR I think + shipping from Germany. Now I don't have to wait two weeks for a battery to arrive, I can simply got to the 'Action' discounter during lunch break and buy five CR2032 for one EUR, or close :mrgreen:

It's possible I have a keyboard, I'll have to look.

jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at Oct. 7, 2014, 12:41 a.m...

And I've got sound! Yay! Finally

I improvised with a pair of SGI 'Polk' speakers until now but there's no substitute for a decent pair of speakers. They're powered by a Rotel amplifier and a Cambridge Audio DacMagic Plus.

If you look carefully you can see one of the few mistakes I made during construction: the holes in the wall for the speaker cables are too high...

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of Fuel error (ODYSSEY, Power supply ?) at Oct. 8, 2014, 12:16 a.m...

BetXen wrote:

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ALERT: Error reading monitor ODYSSEY interrupt status 1: no acknowledge ALERT: Error reading monitor ODYSSEY interrupt status 1: no acknowledge ALERT: Error initializing the ODYSSEY monitor, no acknowledge ALERT: Error reading monitor ODYSSEY interrupt status 1: no acknowledge ALERT: Error configuring ODYSSEY power (XIO 12V BIAS) monitoring: no acknowledge ALERT: Error configuring ODYSSEY power (XIO 5V) monitoring: no acknowledge ALERT: Error configuring ODYSSEY power (XIO 2.5V) monitoring: no acknowledge ALERT: Error configuring ODYSSEY power (XIO 3.3V AUX) monitoring: no acknowledge ALERT: Error configuring ODYSSEY temperature monitoring: no acknowledge ... ERROR: I2C:no acknowledge

ODYSSEY is the internal name for VPro graphics. There's only one XIO slot in a Fuel and it's the graphics slot.

It appears to me that the L1 has troubles communicating (via I2C) to the 'monitor' chip on the V12 which monitors various voltages and a temperature reading. It makes sense that this monitor chip is something similar to the notorious environmental monitoring chips used on the Fuel main board.

I'd take out the V12 and inspect it for DS1780 or other Dallas chips. If you can buy / borrow another card that would make it easier to confirm the guilty piece as well.

FWIW: I've got 'no acknowledge' on I2C reads to the CPU of my Fuel . But there's apparently no environmental monitoring going on there so the damage is limited to the CPU serial number disappearing from a 'hinv -mv'

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at Oct. 8, 2014, 12:42 p.m...

sgifanatic wrote: It would be wonderful if you could share what it looks like now... in the last pics I saw, things were still in transition.

It's still not finished ... the realities of life with a family with two small kids and a full time job, I'm afraid. Weekends are always incredibly busy, so realistically I only spend time on my hobby in the evenings during the working week.

I still need to install the network cables plus the Fibe Channel / FDDI fibres on one side. For quite a while the baby room furniture was stored in my computer room until I had the time to fix it up and sell it. This was massively in the way of everything.

I hope to finish the wiring this winter. Once the wiring is in, I can fill up the large cupboards with spares etc. That should clean up nicely.

Next year I hope to design a comprehensive KVM solution for my workstation rack and get rid of most of the CRT monitors. That will clean up nicely too.

Less is more. How zen

And I need to put some decoration on the walls. I have some failed old Geometry Engine boards of various generations, maybe I can frame some and turn them into art or something.

pentium wrote: I keep thinking that my workshop was an impressive feat but then I remembered you practically built an addition to your home just for your computers.
Now that it has been a while, has there been any issues with ventilation?

It gets warm there during the summer, but not a sauna. I have not installed an airco (yet). When it gets that hot it's a better idea anyway to sit in the garden with a cold beer

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of PC case recommendations? at Oct. 8, 2014, 3:04 p.m...

bigD wrote: The cost doesn't matter if the quality justifies it.

Lian-Li then.

jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of My Octane 2*R12k 360MHz, 1Gb, EMXI at Oct. 10, 2014, 8:11 a.m...

nongrato wrote: or send a video to an external device:

That cat

I would try that, but the cats are not allowed in my computer room :mrgreen:

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of 4.x packages at Oct. 12, 2014, 5:10 a.m...

I've got some on my FTP also: ftp://ftp.jurassic.nl/pub/irix/gnu/irix-4.0/

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of 4.x packages at Oct. 13, 2014, 12:36 a.m...

This is all 10 years old, but I think I first compiled all the packages GCC depends upon using the native tools. This often means rather crude hacks and/or using very old versions of these GNU packages.

Then bootstrap GCC, and finally rebuild everything with the GCC just built. Including GCC itself.

Code generation of GCC v3 wasn't all that terrible compared to the MIPS UCODE compiler. But GCC takes a lot more CPU cycles to do the compilation which can be a problem when all you've got is a 33MHz R3000. I think I used a 200MHz R4400 Indigo2 running a late version of IRIX 4.0.5.

At the very least IRIX 4.0 has a more or less complete ANSI C library. Not any of the fancy POSIX stuff, but still. You should try compiling software for IRIX 3.3: pre-ANSI library, K&R compilers. Now there's a challenge

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of net install questions at Oct. 13, 2014, 12:42 p.m...

Start with re-seating the TRAMs. Saved my day twice already (with two different MXE's).

Don't tear things apart unless you have a good reason. You just risk damaging it.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of net install questions at Oct. 13, 2014, 3:02 p.m...

What if you run it without the TRAMs? You can, you know. It'll be an SSI and not an MXI, but if it gives a picture you know it's the TRAMs causing the problem, and not the graphics board itself.

You have to remove both (or none)

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of Dillo3 at Oct. 15, 2014, 1:16 a.m...

Maybe. Maybe not.

That's a userspace implementation of pthreads, using setjmp/longjmp. It's a cool effort, but it's like multitasking in Windows 3.1. A proper threads implementation requires kernel support.

Also, IIRC, some things like per-thread signal masking and handling are not possible (I think, it's been a while).

IRIX has had it's own sproc() based threads since IRIX 3, but again this uses different concepts, and you can't mix it with IRIX pthreads in a single binary, nor can you implement a 100% compliant pthreads implementation using sproc primitives.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of Will AI be third-time-lucky? at Oct. 23, 2014, 5:11 a.m...

hamei wrote: The calculation of what burning fossil fuels is doing to the atmosphere could be done on an Indigo.

Close. What you need is a 4D/380VGX Power Series. My 4D/380VGX, featured in this article when it was brand new:

It still has the original name (`dali') and Fraunhofer asset tags, and it still runs fine. Not too often though, because requires burning lots of fossil fuel :mrgreen:

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at Oct. 25, 2014, 12:37 p.m...

jan-jaap wrote: And I've got sound! [...] They're powered by a Rotel amplifier and a Cambridge Audio DacMagic Plus.

So it turned out that my Dynaudio speakers were a bit too much for my poor Rotel RA-970BX integrated amp. I've had the same problem before with the stereo system I have in my office at work and that was solved with a bigger amp (also Rotel, a pre + power amp combo).

Having good experience with big Rotel amps I got myself an RB-991 power amp. The Dynaudios, being 4Ohm speakers and relatively insensitive ( ~86dB) can handle (and need) a lot of power. Recommendation is 200W I think. The RB-991 puts out nearly twice that and that's continuous output power at low distortion, not some fancy unreal impulse power number. It also has a damping factor of 1000 over the entire audio spectrum -- this thing can drive difficult speakers.

The difference is profound

Before, the sound was muddy, with booming bass. Now it's much tighter, with better definition. Amazingly, it sounds like you're in a bigger room, yet full of music. I haven't tied yet, but I'm quite sure this setup can also play so loud it will make an Onyx in 'fastfan' mode completely unnoticeable (and probably make my ears bleed ...)

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of O350 8x800Mhz, 8Gb, IR4 at Oct. 27, 2014, 2:15 a.m...

recondas wrote: Very nice! With IR4 graphics/2 G B of texture memory and eight 800MHz IP35 processors in a single rack it [...]

There's two GB installed (1GB per RM11), but in an IR system this does not result in 2GB of usable texture memory.

Framebuffer memory adds up, and the resulting bigger total amount means more features, or higher bit depth at a given resolution. An RM11 has 2.5GB of frame buffer memory (up from 80MB in RM10), but IIRC the 300MB/s fill rate limit still applies so I'm not sure what's the purpose of this -- not higher display resolutions I think.
Texture memory does not add up, it is used in parallel. So with multiple RMs you get higher fill rates.

Still pretty awesome. Congratulations on an impressive score!

recondas wrote: [...]would easily qualify as my idea of the ultimate Silicon Graphics system for residential use.

only if you own a pair of noise canceling headphones. :mrgreen:

recondas wrote: If you have the OEM cables that from from the "TMDS Video Output" ports on the DG5/TVO (in the G-Brick) to the matching ports on the VBoB, and those cables happen to be labeled with an SGI part number, could you post those part numbers?

As a side note: I've used generic high quality dual link DVI cables to wire my Onyx2 TVO option to a DMedia breakout w./ DM5 in the past. I'm pretty sure the DM5 showed up in the Onyx, but can't remember if I ever attached a HD-SDI monitor to look at the output signal. These are the same cables and VBOB I use with the Tezro normally. I think you have to flash something if you move a VBOB between an IR and a VPro system.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of DmediaPro + DM5 instructions at Nov. 11, 2014, 3:27 p.m...

Start with the SGI Video BreakOut Box User's Guide: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals ... index.html

The vbob software is included in the DMedia DM2/DM3 software distribution. If you don't have it I think it's on Ian Mapleson's 'depot' resource and/or Nekochan FTP. It may even still be on SupportFolio

Keep in mind that the whole DMedia package can do two different things: video I/O to decks, cameras, (HD)SDI video monitors etc. using the DM2/DM3 + vbob, and GVO (graphics-to-video). GVO is optional and requires a DM5 in the vbob. You need DVI to connect to the DM5 so an Octane V12 needs a DCD. The vbob put the corresponding (HD)SDI signal on the BNCs, and you can attach the (graphics) monitor to the DM5 output.

You can telnet the vbob but I think it's only useful to run diagnostics on the thing or maybe recover from a bad flash. I normally do not have a serial cable connected to the vbob. You cannot telnet from the PROM.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of Twilight - hot stuff in '92 at Nov. 15, 2014, 2:19 p.m...

foetz wrote: they had stdbool.h in 1992

Nope.

But I have a copy of the old info-iris archive on my FTP server: ftp://ftp.jurassic.nl/pub/info-iris/twilight.c

Dated 1992

jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of Indigo2 R4400 250Mhz HighImpact + TRAM at Nov. 21, 2014, 7:53 a.m...

Nice one!

I've got one of these DeveloperToolbox binders too, the theme is the adventures of two magical Indian characters I think?

FWIW: MIPSpro licenses are not versioned, they will work up to the last version. You need the installation media, but the license will won't be the problem.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of from T1 to TrueStream (a/k/a U-verse): inside wiring? at Nov. 23, 2014, 12:35 p.m...

I've got FTTH, so I've got an actual glass fibre coming into the house. It terminates in a 'modem' with several ports on it for radio/TV, telephone, IPTV, and one is ethernet. It's 'raw', it has a non-private IP, and I can/must attach the router of my choice. In my case that's an aging EnGenius ESR9850 and it can keep up with it.

I currently have 100/100 Mbit internet service which is enough for me. I think I can get anything up to 500/500 or even gigabit.

I'm in the process of replacing the EnGenius with a small PC (a Jetway JBC372 ), because it has more capabilities and I prefer to be in control of something as essential as my router, but in essence the EnGenius is/was fast enough. Consumer routers will not be able to do high speed VPN routing and other CPU intensive things, but simple routing is no issue.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of How does Diskless DECStation work? at Nov. 25, 2014, 2:43 a.m...

And then there was IPI-2 which was positioned at the high end. My 1990-vintage 4D/380VGX PowerSeries has two SCSI channels (IO3 board), used for QIC150, CDROM etc, and a Xylogics SV7890 VME IPI-2 controller. In the bottom of the rack sits an 8" Seagate ST81154K (a.k.a. CDC 'Sabre'), which basically eats up half a 19" shelf, consumes 160W (it has it's own 220VAC PSU) and weighs roughly 30kg. It has it's own key panel and LCD screen at the front which you can use to manually key in bad sectors, I believe. Oh, the raw capacity is ~ 1.1GB. It's a bit of a monster. And it still works 8-)

IPI-2 has more bandwidth than the synchronous SCSI-1 implementation of the PowerSeries. The ST81154K internally works like a RAID0 (stripe) so it's streaming speeds are faster than you might expect. The PowerSeries PROMs can boot from the Xylogics controller, and 'fx' can format it so you can use it as an IRIX system disk.

IPI-2 had some other unusual features, I think you could attach a disk to two systems for fail-over, similar to Fibre Channel. But that pretty much sums up what I know about IPI-2. Information about it is pretty scarce.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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jan-jaap
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Wrote on the subject of My resolv.conf resets on every boot at Nov. 25, 2014, 8:10 a.m...

The old router is still connected and answers the DHCP queries faster than the new one?

It's fairly normal that a DHCP client rewrites the resolv.conf, although I don't have much experience with DHCP on IRIX.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of About that Jurassic World thing... at Nov. 26, 2014, 12:30 a.m...

Reminds me of Temple OS .

I won't post the animated screenshots here because they're a couple of MB each, but you've got to see this.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of The ghetto Onyx2: 4*300MHz, IR3 at Dec. 2, 2014, 1:41 p.m...

Between what I had and what I pulled out of Rusti's basement a couple of weeks ago, I had enough to put together an entire Onyx2 :shock:

This will be my test rig to test all of my (many more!) Onyx2 parts. I didn't want to use my 'normal' Onyx2 for that because I fear something would inevitably break. This is by no means the maximum config I can put together, it's just how it looks today. A working baseline.

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onyx2 1# hinv -mv


Location: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node


IP31 Board: barcode JSB327     part 030-1255-003 rev  D


IP31PIMM8MB Board: barcode JSB147     part 030-1401-002 rev  B


Location: /hw/module/1/slot/n1/node


MODULEID Board: barcode K0025796   part              rev


IP31PIMM8MB Board: barcode KAG305     part 030-1401-002 rev  B


4P1G5_MPLN Board: barcode JRZ947     part 030-1066-002 rev  L


IP31 Board: barcode JRR148     part 030-1255-003 rev  D


Location: /hw/module/1/slot/io4/kona


GE16-4 Board: barcode KWH000     part 030-1398-001 rev  E


Location: /hw/module/1/slot/io1/baseio


BASEIO Board: barcode HPE367     part 030-0734-002 rev  N


MIO Board: barcode HPF381     part 030-0880-003 rev  F


4 300 MHZ IP27 Processors


CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.3


FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.3


CPU 0 at Module 1/Slot 2/Slice A: 300 Mhz MIPS R12000 Processor Chip (enabled)


Processor revision: 2.3. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 200 Mhz  Tap 0xa


CPU 1 at Module 1/Slot 2/Slice B: 300 Mhz MIPS R12000 Processor Chip (enabled)


Processor revision: 2.3. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 200 Mhz  Tap 0xa


CPU 2 at Module 1/Slot 1/Slice A: 300 Mhz MIPS R12000 Processor Chip (enabled)


Processor revision: 2.3. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 200 Mhz  Tap 0xa


CPU 3 at Module 1/Slot 1/Slice B: 300 Mhz MIPS R12000 Processor Chip (enabled)


Processor revision: 2.3. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 200 Mhz  Tap 0xa


Main memory size: 3840 Mbytes


Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes


Data cache size: 32 Kbytes


Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes


Memory at Module 1/Slot 82: 1792 MB (enabled)


Bank 0 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 1 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 2 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 3 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 4 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 5 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Memory at Module 1/Slot 81: 2048 MB (enabled)


Bank 0 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 1 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 2 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 3 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 4 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 5 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended


Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)


Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 2)


CDROM: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0


Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty3


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty4


IOC3 parallel port: plp1


Graphics board: InfiniteReality3


Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 1, slot io1, pci 2


Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 7.0, number 1


Origin BASEIO board, module 1 slot 1: Revision 4


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 6


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 7


IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1


HUB in Module 1/Slot 2: Revision 5 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)


HUB in Module 1/Slot 1: Revision 5 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)


IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n2: Revision 6.156


IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n1: Revision 6.156


IO6prom on Global Master Baseio in Module 1/Slot io2: Revision 6.156

Graphics: IR3, with dual RM10 and DG5-2/GVO:

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onyx2 2# /usr/gfx/gfxinfo -v


Graphics board 0 is "KONAL" graphics.


Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024


Display has 2 channels


4 GEs (of 4), occmask = 0x0f


4MB external BEF ram, 32bit path


2 RM10 boards (of 2) 1/1/0/0


Texture Memory: 256MB/256MB/-/-


Medium pixel depth


32K cmap


GVO option detected


brd: 80f61806 3041606/3041606/-/- f9311002


ge: 0 14832057 24731057 14231057


rm0: 15032057 15431057


4631057 2/2/2/2


4d31057 2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2


4938057 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5


rm1: 15032057 15431057


4631057 2/2/2/2


4d31057 2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2


4938057 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5


dg: 05532057


5838057 1/1/1/1


5631057 1/1


GE:   NIC #:      0000.0049.385a (family: 0b)


Serial #:   KWH000


Part #:     030-1398-001


KT:   No NIC serial number available.


RM0:  NIC #:      0000.0048.7c13 (family: 0b)


Serial #:   KBK793


Part #:     030-1402-001


TM0:  NIC #:      0000.0048.3277 (family: 0b)


Serial #:   KBV092


Part #:     030-1588-001


RM1:  NIC #:      0000.0034.2769 (family: 0b)


Serial #:   HXW344


Part #:     030-1402-001


TM1:  NIC #:      0000.003f.1b7d (family: 0b)


Serial #:   KBW875


Part #:     030-1588-001


RM2:  No NIC serial number available.


TM2:  No NIC serial number available.


RM3:  No NIC serial number available.


TM3:  No NIC serial number available.


BP:   No NIC serial number available.


DG:   NIC #:      0000.003e.fcb6 (family: 0b)


Serial #:   JKH385


Part #:     030-1242-001


DGOPT:NIC #:      0000.003e.c5f4 (family: 0b)


Serial #:   KCS540


Part #:     030-1184-002


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


Channel 0:


Origin = (0,0)


Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 72.00Hz (1280x1024_72.vfo)


Video Format Flags:  (none)


Sync Output(s):


Composite sync on Green


Composite TTL sync on Aux 0


Using Gamma Map 0

It has no skins and sits on blocks because I've got no wheelbase either. Ah well

PS: to the right the project I was working on before I got side tracked by Rusti: my 4D/440 and it's broken power supply (which I'm trying to figure out and fix). I have a working PSU for it still, but I'm determined to figure out how these Power One PSU's tick before the last one dies on me... My 4D/70 is awaiting the same treatment.

PPS: The IR graphics are fine. It's the LCD screen which spent too much time in the garage and has clusters of dead pixels.

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Wrote on the subject of The ghetto Onyx2: 4*300MHz, IR3 at Dec. 3, 2014, 3:03 a.m...

That's not (just) a logo, that's an honest-to-god 4D/380 VGX Power Series rack. And with a bit of imagination you'll be able to recognize the 42U HP 19" rack behind the monitor

The point of the whole exercise: stuff accumulates over the years. I keep finding Onyx2 parts everywhere whenever I open boxes I have no idea what's inside. I can't bring myself to use my "collection" Onyx2 to test them, I don't want to sell them untested, and I don't want to throw them away either. Something has to be done.

So, I'll test everything, throw away all the broken bits keep a sane amount of spares for my Onyx2 and probably sell off everything else.

For starters: I have a couple of GB worth of 512MB kits for Onyx2/O2000/O200. And enough 256MB kits to fully populate at least 2 nodeboards. Tested good, and in ESD safe packaging. Ready to go

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Wrote on the subject of For the Swedes: SGI Origin 2400 at ETA at Dec. 7, 2014, 3:15 a.m...

Pontus wrote: The machine sold for 4$

Someone put a LOLbid of 1$/rack and now his wife is shouting at him :mrgreen:

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Wrote on the subject of firewalls at Jan. 5, 2015, 12:03 a.m...

Alver wrote: I guess I could even run a proxy on it (but I don't see a need for it).

Privoxy on the router is on my TODO-list. To suppress YouTube ads on the TV

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

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Wrote on the subject of FS: Onyx2 DIVO boards at Jan. 5, 2015, 1:59 p.m...

I have more than I will ever need, so I might as well sell a couple:

QTY 3: 030-1305-001, DIVO
QTY 1: 030-1046-002, DIVO

The 030-1046-002 board has extra connectors to install two DVC compressor option boards (which are not included).

All of them have successfully passed /usr/diags/DIVO/bin/divotest.

Price: 30EUR each + shipping from The Netherlands.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of Can someone build a ResidualVM package? at Jan. 7, 2015, 3:21 a.m...

isfinite() is C99 and MIPSpro doesn't allow C99 features in C++.

The underlying primitives:

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extern int _isfinite(double);


extern int _isfinitef(float);


extern int _isfinitel(long double);

are in libm (I think, could be libc).

You just need the isfinite() macro, then:

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#define isfinite(x) \


(sizeof (x) == sizeof (float)                                            \


? _isfinitef (x)                                                         \


: sizeof (x) == sizeof (double)                                         \


? _isfinite (x) : _isfinitel (x))

(not tested, but you'll figure it out)

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Wrote on the subject of Melbourne Australia SGI haul 02 x 5 and Indigo2 at Jan. 7, 2015, 4:17 a.m...

Byrd wrote: - The teal Indigo2 sounds like an oddity - from what I can gather the R8K CPU only came out in later models?

The R8000 Power Indigo2 is a very collectable system (IMHO). The R8000 is unique: it is not a CPU, but a chipset . It was the first implementation of the 64bit MIPS IV ISA. It was designed to excel at number crunching, integer performance was basically the same as an R4x00 CPU. The tagline was 'a Cray under your desk' or something.

Because the CPU card was built from several chips and because of the 'streaming' cache memory used, it was very expensive. It was replaced withing a year or two with the R10000 CPU series, which offered similar FP performance to the R8000, but much better integer performance so it was a better all-round performer. R10000 was also easier to scale to higher clock rates.

Compared to R4x00 and R10K Indigo2s, the R8000 is rare. It can also be rather fragile. Enjoy, and take good care of her.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

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Wrote on the subject of FS: Onyx2 DIVO boards at Jan. 11, 2015, 11:51 p.m...

DIVO doesn't need a breakout. It's SDI in and out so you need professional equipment or converters.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of Octane FS Ebay at Jan. 14, 2015, 5:43 a.m...

chicaneuk wrote: Stupid question but what is it that's missing in the shot of the rear, above the power supply?

That's where the optional PCI cage slides in. Normally it's covered.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of I want this at Jan. 17, 2015, 9:13 a.m...

Check the elcos in that linear power supply. Reminds of my power amp :lol:

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of Indy, R4400 175MHz, 96MB, 24bit Graphics at Jan. 20, 2015, 2:10 p.m...

chicaneuk wrote: Another scrapper from work, this was absolutely barebones with a 100MHz CPU, 32MB RAM, 8 bit graphics and some extremely loud old drives measured in MB not GB

Yup, had one exactly like that in my first real job ... did real work with it too.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of Indy, R4400 175MHz, 96MB, 24bit Graphics at Jan. 20, 2015, 2:48 p.m...

chicaneuk wrote: I guess in it's defence, IRIX was a bit less bloated back then so probably booted and ran a bit quicker!

True, but it came with IRIX 5.1.x which leaked memory like nothing else so it had to be rebooted every couple of days.

With IRIX 5.3 it was perfectly usable, especially after we upgraded the memory with an extra 64MB. Of course, 'usable' was compared to a contemporary PC, usually a 486DX/2 running Windows 95 or OS/2 Warp.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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Wrote on the subject of gtk rant at Jan. 26, 2015, 12:17 a.m...

vishnu wrote: Strictly speaking it's not the KDE toolkit it's the K Desktop Environment which is built with the qt toolkit from Troll Tech.

Troll Tech -> Nokia -> Digia, but yeah.

vishnu wrote: The consensus seems to be that qt is the best C++ based toolkit but, and at least this was the case last time I looked at it, it runs a preprocessor over your code which implements their signals and slots architecture so really when you're debugging, you're not debugging the code you wrote, you're debugging the code you wrote that the preprocessor modified, and, at least back then, there weren't any debuggers that could understand that. I'm sure it's all different now I haven't looked at it in a decade at least, and have pretty much stuck with Motif that whole time...

The signal / slot mechanism is actually pretty nifty. It's implemented via macros, but it's not like there's a special processor munging your code -- if your debugger cannot handle it it will have issues with everything in /usr/include as well.

Maybe you're talking about the user interface layout? The .ui files are processed into source code by a processor (moc). Then again, you don't want to debug the layout of your buttons, you want to debug the action taken after the user presses it.

Current versions (> 4.7) are not supported on IRIX.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

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Wrote on the subject of uptime contest ! at Jan. 26, 2015, 1:58 a.m...

Pontus wrote: At my previous workplace we had an old DELL running well over 600 days, no UPS.

In my experience, it's more likely to have a UPS break than a power failure.

Not a scientific sample size of course, but I can't remember the last power outage. Must be years ago.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

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Wrote on the subject of Another Bargain???? at Jan. 30, 2015, 4:32 a.m...

recondas wrote: Eight years ago a number of us bought new 600MHz V12 Octane2s directly from SGI for $600 (no, I didn't leave out any zeros ).

$300 for the Octane, plus $300 for the IRIX media, IIRC. And they wouldn't sell them to Europeans because of ROHS regulations

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

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Wrote on the subject of duckduckgo : two girls, one cup at Jan. 30, 2015, 10:40 a.m...

robespierre wrote: This came across my desk today: https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/
Firefox and Chrome have been enhanced to support a new protocol called STUN (sounds like the taser, but it's an IETF design for opening connections through NATs, and therefore through firewalls). It has the side-effect of deanonymizing browsers that use VPNs, and exposing their local and public IP addresses to any website. So people who use VPN to view shows that are blocked in their country could soon see them stop working.

Fortunately this can be disabled: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/01/27/sites- ... ng-webrtc/

The sane default would have been to disable WebRTC -- this way it's yet another data point to create a unique browser fingerprint even with cookies disabled.

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet

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Wrote on the subject of Say hello to my new "mystery guest"... at Feb. 2, 2015, 12:59 a.m...

Alver wrote: The "PITSTOP.EXE" doesn't do much at all either - it launches, attempts to access the A: drive, then exits back to prompt. Guess it needs something on a floppy that I don't have.

I played that game in my first year in university

That's probably the copy protection, it needs that floppy and if you wanted to make a copy you needed a special disk duplicator program.

It's probably a 8086. If you're really (un)lucky it might not be 100% IBM compatible.

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Wrote on the subject of Why would you ever need SIX HIPPI cards in one Origin? at Feb. 3, 2015, 2 a.m...

Seen on fleebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/271758384526

This thing has no less than 6 HIIPI serial cards installed. Why would you do that? I don't think you can use an O2K as a HIPPI router and one system in 6 different HIPPI networks seems a bit far fetched.