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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan.net operating costs? at Jan. 8, 2010, 8:20 a.m...

henrycault wrote:

Is that the same Atom you were using as an hackintosh? Is it a 230 or a 330?

I have a Atom330 here, and it's on 24H duty and it's fairly stable, but it likes to simply freeze once a week... Then again it's running M$ Win7... like playing with matches around a can of fuel.

You're just doing it wrong, here's a 24x7 330 (D945GCLF2). Running Open Solaris (snv_101b)

Code:

tiny:~$ uptime

7:10am  up 60 days  7:21,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00

And Windows 7 (Build 7100) on a Core2Duo (work machine)

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C:\>uptime

\\SEVEN has been up for: 30 day(s), 15 hour(s), 6 minute(s), 33 second(s)

Speaking of Fuel, I have one with a bad memory controller (only works with one bank) and it's up for 76 days.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan.net operating costs? at Jan. 8, 2010, 9:05 a.m...

hamei wrote:

japes wrote:

Speaking of Fuel, I have one with a bad memory controller (only works with one bank) and it's up for 76 days.

Are you sure the memcontrol is bad ? I had a bank get disabled during some fiasco a while back (death of a power supply iirc) And an < enableall > brought them back.

Would hate to screw up your uptime rating tho

As I recall it won't actually pass diagnostics if you boot up the diagnostics, don't remember the failure though.

If I install a second pair of memory (1gb kit) the second bank will disable during POST. If you enable it everything seems to work, I ran a bunch of programs, even used a test program to allocate most of the memory in the machine. As soon as another POST cycle happens the memory bank will disable again. I just use it with a single bank, 1gb. It holds the counter down here at work just fine. I was actually going to trade this one for some Origin 3k parts about 6 months ago but dropped the ball.

A bit off topic now though aren't we?

So that Atom server must be a bit quieter than the 2-node O350, and come summer the reduced heat/power should be nice I imagine.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan on D510MO at Jan. 15, 2010, 6:51 p.m...

nekonoko wrote:

I've ordered a D510MO to play with - just couldn't resist

Heh, I was thinking of ordering one myself. I bought one of each of the previous embedded Intel mini-ITX boards (well except the new 270 based D945GSEJT, http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D945GSEJT ... otherboard ).

For now I have more junk than I need and more projects than time, so I'm holding off. Maybe I'll make it a reward for selling enough stuff on ebay and craigslist to pay for one.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI 13w3 to VGA? (Yes, this again) at Feb. 3, 2010, 1:45 p.m...

dc_v01 wrote: Using a non-SOG monitor with an SGI specific adapter may still have problems, although this is uncommon - the sync signals still present on the green channel can cause issues. It may be possible to disable these sync signals with a setmon command but I haven't verified this.

Do you have an example of SOG causing a problem? Maybe a really cheap monitor, or a monitor capable of SOG not properly detecting that it had sync signals on both Green and the H/V sync lines and trying to merge two slightly out sync sources.

http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/sync-on-green/sync-on-green_en.php wrote: I[n] case you are wondering, the sync pulse does not interferate with the green signal because the pulses always occur at the end of a line or at the bottom of the screen.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI 13w3 to VGA? (Yes, this again) at Feb. 3, 2010, 3:02 p.m...

PymbleSoftware wrote:

dc_v01 wrote: "Yes, this again" is right. There have been many posts about this before, I guess I should add this to the wiki or something. Maybe it's already there?

Is now..
I cobbled something together...
http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/13w3_to_VGA

Please edit the hell out of it.

Thanks for posting something!

Funny, this actually drove me to sign up and start working on one. I had an idea where I wanted to go with my wiki article. Looks like we were working on it about the same time. I've started here...
http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/13W3

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Wrote on the subject of Sun Ultra 10 at May 18, 2010, 3 p.m...

I have a 10 and a couple 5s if anyone needs to fill up some space with old hardware. One of my 5s isn't working right now, so maybe I have a 5 and a 10.

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Wrote on the subject of My want list at May 18, 2010, 3:04 p.m...

I've got a Netgear 802.11b bridge, could probably give up an Indy and I have a number of Indigo's in various stages of completeness. I have a SS5, but I think I'll hold onto that, this particular one is the first Unix machine I sat at the console of.

What's your interest in the Lacie EtherDisk? I have one of these too.

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Wrote on the subject of opensolaris 2010.05 at May 21, 2010, 8:17 p.m...

You can try dedup now. No need to wait. Install 2009.06 and update to the dev release.

http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gman/opensol ... w-2010-05/ is working for me right now.

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Wrote on the subject of anyone been inside an x4500 ? Some clarifications... at June 5, 2010, 2:05 p.m...

maybe check out this: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/13849

I have built my own Solaris/OpenSolaris server machines and did some research on the x4500 before it was EOL. Browsing some of the documentation on oracle.com makes me think the drives mate with the I/O board and controllers are part of the I/O board. I've just read in Sun documentation that the controllers are LSI, but also seen Marvell driver download links and the above article has a diagram showing the Marvell controllers.

Here's the thing, that machine was intended to use ZFS. It was intended to use lots of cheap SATA drives. I don't think you'll be able to use SAS drives, or dedicated RAID controllers. Just not what the machine was designed to do. You might be able to use Linux if you don't like Solaris, but I'd say ZFS is a better solution than LVM and software RAID on Linux.

Not sure what Bri3d means about reliability with ZFS. I've read a lot of success stories and haven't had an issue with my own couple TBs. It's not fair to compare RAID-6 with RAIDZ, RAIDZ2 would be comparable. Speed? Well if you want speed you don't use RAID-5/RAID-6 or similar.

Stripes across mirrored pairs would be better in this application. It's expandable, fast and offers better rebuild times.

I am not a fan of dedicated controllers. The Opterons in the X4500 are faster than the little CPU on a RAID card. If you look at how most Filers and other storage appliances work, they don't use RAID cards either. A NetApp for example is really just a custom PC with custom software, FC ports and a bunch of JBODs.

My own RAIDZ arrays have been stable and fast enough running on slow Core2Duo based Pentiums.

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Wrote on the subject of anyone been inside an x4500 ? Some clarifications... at June 5, 2010, 2:33 p.m...

More pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitar/se ... 343165027/

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Wrote on the subject of What are people doing for Classic support now? at June 29, 2010, 1:49 a.m...

WorkgroupServer 6150/66 plays Crystal Quest mighty fine for me. Running some early release of System 7 last I checked. I've kinda wanted a Quadra 700, but can never find a nice clean one so this does fine.

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Wrote on the subject of Looking for lots of 1 GB O3k/Fuel/Tezro Modules at June 30, 2010, 1:30 p.m...

1 GB modules or kits? I think I still have plenty of 1 GB kits (2x512mb), maybe enough to fill your order.

The 2gb kits (2x1gb) are all premium.

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... 208-PARENT

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Wrote on the subject of Water cool for sgi? Possible? at July 1, 2010, 10:31 a.m...

I think the newest immersive fluids are non-toxic, but still expensive. But the problem is you remove the fan and put a custom water block on component a, turns out components b-v didn't need heatsinks, but still needed a little cooling and you don't have water blocks or air currents any longer, so expensive isn't as expensive as making all the custom water blocks.

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Wrote on the subject of Indigo power supply failure at July 2, 2010, 8:46 p.m...

I think this happened to me the other night too.

Was testing things out and quite excited to have built a keyboard converter. I had stepped away and came back to "the smell" but things were still running and the fan had evacuated the scent pretty well so I couldn't tell what cooked. It wasn't until later I decided it was probably an old electrolytic cap in the power supply.

I haven't verified what failed, but caps get dry and fail, so if that's what it is just replace it, and probably the ones that are similar.

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Wrote on the subject of iPad at Oct. 19, 2010, 3:19 a.m...

I'm starting to think about getting one, with the Verizon MIFI bundle actually. Not as handy maybe as a 3g iPad, but I plan on using the MiFi with my other devices and Verizon does seem to offer the $20/gig offer otherwise.

I have a couple friends with them. Reading PDFs on the go was the killer app for one. Another who has a hard time getting to sleep reads wikipedia in bed, since I do that with my iPhone already I see that being a big use for me.

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Wrote on the subject of My SGI icons at Nov. 9, 2010, 10:13 p.m...

mila wrote:

gosh two Origin with skinns and doors!! I have one with skin and door and one spare door in case I would find one more O200

Are they craylink connected aswell?

Notice there are no feet though.

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Wrote on the subject of Powering Origin2k or onyx2 deskside in UK at Feb. 21, 2011, 11:21 p.m...

I powered a deskside Origin 2k from 120v, it took around 9amps I think. When I first got it I think I powered it from 240v from my garage circuit. I didn't check the power draw but would guess it'd be in the 5 amp area. So that should easily run from your UK circuits. You'll need a power cord with an IEC 320 C19 connector.

The desksides don't use 3-phase, the PDUs in the rack models do, depending on model. Even still the PDUs break out the power to the C19 connectors on the same module that is in a Origin2000 deskside. The Onyx graphics module has a single phase 200-240v cord.

chancehooper wrote: All the documentation I have seen in the way of techpubs and PDF manuals for the O2k and onyx2 deskside vixen speak about getting a 210v circuit installed as they are very US-centric. Anyone here have one in the UK? If so, do you require 3-phase commercial wiring, power converters or are you running them off your standard wall sockets?

Just curious as I live in a listed building and doubt I could take up the stone floors to install a commercial wiring system...

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Wrote on the subject of Selling my Tezro and MacPro 8 core [updated with pictures] at March 3, 2011, 5:57 p.m...

So close and so out of my price range. Mind if I come by and see the Tezro, I don't think I've ever seen one in person. I'm just down the way at the north end of 405 and would love a tour of the machine.

emachine wrote: All,

Selling:

-Tezro(*sniff*): http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16718307
-2008 MacPro 8 core (MacPro 3,1)
I am asking $1500 a piece.

I also have a 20" Apple Cinema Display with the DVI to ADC converter. >$150.

I would have a difficult time shipping these and am hoping there would be a local buyer. I am now in Woodinville, WA - northeast of Seattle 20 miles or so.

Regards,
--Eric

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Wrote on the subject of iPad 2 at March 6, 2011, 10:51 p.m...

review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct1_r_61sk8

I haven't used an iPad other than playing with friends and in the store. I think it'd be great for surfing on the couch or in bed, but for the price I'll keep using my laptop.

The upgrades seem nice, but unless I was addicted to facetiming it's more along the when the one I have breaks I'll upgrade, not a gotta have it. Maybe there are apps that really tax the thing and would see a great boost, but I don't have them on my phone. Then again I just replaced my original iPhone a few months ago.

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Wrote on the subject of New MacBook Pro advice... at March 7, 2011, 8:12 p.m...

I'm happy with my 13" mbp, 16 months old. I got the least expensive model then swapped the HD out for SSD and the RAM out for 4gb (back when they only gave 2). I cart it around and surf the web, read my email, hack on xcode, ssh back to home, zterm with a usb cable and use it for a quick look at my photos from my camera (SD card slot is handy). I have vmware fusion and use it to run WinXP, Linux and other OSes for testing and fiddling.

Nothing real pressing but it handles it all very nicely.

I don't recall dropping mine, but it has a hot spot in the lower right corner of the display like the diffuser is cracked.

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Wrote on the subject of New MacBook Pro advice... at March 9, 2011, 4:26 a.m...

The glossy screen doesn't bother me much. It's only problematic when I forget to turn the brightness up. Outside it might catch a few things that stand out a little more than a washed out section on a matte screen, but if you're outside bring some shade or enjoy the outside instead of staring into a computer. I thought it'd bother me, but it's not really much worse than the 21" sgi crt sitting here on my Indy.

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Wrote on the subject of Noisy Betty. at March 22, 2011, 3:09 p.m...

Second the newer hard drive. Not sure about your O2, but the last one I got had a real screamer in it.

I think the PSU is 80mm not 120mm. Try to get something that promises to move air, just replacing the old fan should help though.

fu wrote: most guys recommend newer scsi HDs , as they're way less noisy than the old ones. if you manage to fit an ssd, you'll be in peace nirvana but i have no clue how to do that inside the blue2

the psu fan is an easy replacement, i've done it myself. you can use any 12x12cm fan that fits your silence levels. i went for a noctua one back in the day (it was the only one i could test before buying). i see four 12x12cm models but i can't recall which one i used.

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Wrote on the subject of Soldering stations (pencil/hot air/both?) at Dec. 28, 2012, 6:11 p.m...

I have an older Weller station (circa 2002), similar to a WES51, it has digital readout and a small iron and tip, I think it might only be 20watt. I enjoy using it very much.

I read a while back the Wellers with digital displays fail frequently, Weller has changed hands a few times and they might have suffered some quality control during those times, perhaps they're under control now. Regardless, the more displays/controls the more to break.

If I was starting over I would be temped to go with the Hakko FX-888 since everyone in the hobby space seems to be enamored by it. SparkFun and Adafruit are selling the FX-888 pretty steadily and seem to have lots of happy customers. I hear lots of folks talking about it being the only iron you'll ever need and at $100 it's hard to complain.

And if you find yourself wanting it RIGHT NOW, our Fry's has been stocking the FX-888 and might have one for you on the shelf (and their price was inline with the online shops I mentioned).

For hot air, I find I wish I had it about 2 seconds after I rip all the traces off a board trying to perform a little rework. I've tried using my Weller heatgun (I use for heatshrink) and I know I should get something. I had dreams of doing some more smt work and if that comes about I'm going to order the cheapo Sparkfun rework station. I noticed some made in China thing at Fry's, but I figure atleast the guys in Colorado get to make a buck and probably at least tried it out and think it should last for a day or five. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10706

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Wrote on the subject of 2.5" SCSI hard drives -- anyone ever tried? seen? at Dec. 4, 2013, 8:53 p.m...

I was looking for hard drives on ebay and came across 2.5" SCA SCSI hard drives. 10k rpm.

I was wondering if anyone had ever tried these in SGIs with 68<->80 pin adapters. I picked up a few to try so I hope they work out. I'm hoping they'll be quiet and cool, but that might be a little high hope. I'm hoping to stick a couple in an Indy.

I had never seen 2.5" SCSI drives, I thought besides some early Macintosh PowerBooks the 2.5" drives were IDE then SATA and SAS.

here's a sample: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121210721327

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Wrote on the subject of 2.5" SCSI hard drives -- anyone ever tried? seen? at Dec. 4, 2013, 10:20 p.m...

Well not searching was a little embarrassing. Also very promising. Can't wait for them to show up now.

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Wrote on the subject of Tezro, quad 700 MHz, 5 GB at May 4, 2014, 7:15 p.m...

I picked up a Tezro, it took a couple tries, but now I have one. It's not the prettiest, but it's not too ugly either.

The OS was panicing when I first had it on, and the console output was garbled or unresponsive. I've seen the L1 controller not turn on at first but turn on if I unplug and replug so I'm not sure if it has a hidden gremlin yet or not. At first it seemed to be when I plugged it into my USB-Serial adapter. Anyway, things I'll be keeping an eye on.

It had a stuck DVD drive so I replaced it with a new one from the recyclers for $2.00. I upgraded from 3 GB to 5 GB with memory I had on hand from building up my Origin 3000. I blame the 3k for my interest in the Fuel and now Tezro.

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tezro 11# hinv -vm


Location: /hw/module/001c01/node


IP53_4CPU Board: barcode NCG813     part 030-1868-001 rev -C


Location: /hw/module/001c01/IXbrick/xtalk/11


WS_INT_53 Board: barcode NRT021     part 030-1881-007 rev -A


Location: /hw/module/001c01/IXbrick/xtalk/12


ASTODY Board: barcode MZD768     part 030-1726-004 rev -A


Location: /hw/module/001c01/IXbrick/xtalk/15


WS_INT_53 Board: barcode NRT021     part 030-1881-007 rev -A


Location: /hw/module/001c01/IXbrick/xtalk/15/pci-x/0/1/ioc4


IO9 Board: barcode NSX575     part 030-1771-005 rev -B


Location: /hw/module/001c01/IXbrick/xtalk/15/pci-x/1/1


PCI_SIO_UFC Board: barcode MYJ735     part 030-1657-003 rev  A


4 700 MHZ IP35 Processors


CPU: MIPS R16000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.1


FPU: MIPS R16010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.1


CPU 0 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice A: 700 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)


Processor revision: 2.1. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 350 Mhz  Tap 0x1c


CPU 1 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice B: 700 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)


Processor revision: 2.1. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 350 Mhz  Tap 0x1c


CPU 2 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice C: 700 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)


Processor revision: 2.1. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 350 Mhz  Tap 0x1c


CPU 3 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice D: 700 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)


Processor revision: 2.1. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 350 Mhz  Tap 0x1c


Main memory size: 5120 Mbytes


Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes


Data cache size: 32 Kbytes


Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 4 Mbytes


Memory at Module 001c01/Slot 0: 5120 MB (enabled)


Bank 0 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 1 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 2 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 3 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 4 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 5 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 6 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Bank 7 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)


Integral SCSI controller 3: Version LS1030, low voltage differential


Integral SCSI controller 4: Version LS1030, low voltage differential


Integral SCSI controller 2: Version IDE (ATA/ATAPI) IOC4


Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential


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


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


Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, low voltage differential


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty3


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty4


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty5


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty6


Graphics board: V12


Integral Gigabit Ethernet: tg0, module 001c01, PCI bus 1 slot 4


Gigabit Ethernet: tg1, module 001c01, PCI bus 2 slot 2


Iris Audio Processor: version MAD revision 1, number 1


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1000, device 0x0030) PCI slot 1


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1000, device 0x0030) PCI slot 1


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x100a) PCI slot 1


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x104c, device 0xac28) PCI slot 2


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1216) PCI slot 3


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1645) PCI slot 4


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1412, device 0x1724) PCI slot 2


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 1


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1645) PCI slot 2


IOC4 firmware revision 83


IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1


HUB in Module 001c01/Slot 0: Revision 2 Speed 200.00 Mhz (enabled)


IP35prom in Module 001c01/Slot n0: Revision 6.172

l1 serial all

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001c01-L1>serial all




Data                            Location      Value


------------------------------  ------------  --------


Local System Serial Number      NVRAM         P1003492


Reference System Serial Number  NVRAM         P1003492


Local Brick Serial Number       EEPROM        NRT021


Reference Brick Serial Number   NVRAM         NRT021






EEPROM      Product Name    Serial         Part Number           Rev  T/W


----------  --------------  -------------  --------------------  ---  ------


INTERFACE   WS_INT_53       NRT021         030_1881_007          A    00


IO9         IO9             NSX575         030_1771_005          B    00


ODYSSEY     ASTODY          MZD768         030_1726_004          A    00


SNOWBALL    SNOWBALL_EDGE   NBL525         030_1927_003          B    00


NODE        IP53_4CPU       NCG813         030_1868_001          C    00


IO DGHTR    CHWS_IO_DAUG    NJS160         030_1875_003          A    00




EEPROM     JEDEC-SPD Info           Part Number        Rev  Speed  SGI


---------- ------------------------ ------------------ ---- ------ --------


DIMM 0     CE000000000000000CF39D00 M3 46L2820DT2-CA0   2D   10.0  N/A


DIMM 2     CE000000000000000C2CAC00 M3 47L6423DT3-CA0   3D   10.0  N/A


DIMM 4     7F7FFE000000000012003BA5 CM2202B1            2     8.0  N/A


DIMM 6     7F7FFE000000000012003BAB CM2202B1            2     8.0  N/A


DIMM 1     CE000000000000000C4F9D00 M3 46L2820DT2-CA0   2D   10.0  N/A


DIMM 3     CE000000000000000C20AC00 M3 47L6423DT3-CA0   3D   10.0  N/A


DIMM 5     7F7FFE000000000012003B78 CM2202B1            2     8.0  N/A


DIMM 7     7F7FFE000000000012003B44 CM2202B1            2     8.0  N/A

l1 pci

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001c01-L1>pci




Bus Slot Stat    Power Mode/Speed


--- ---- ------- ----- -----------


1    1 0x80 01   15W PCI   66MHz


2    1 0x00 0f  none PCIX 100MHz


2    2 0x00 0d   15W PCIX 100MHz


2    3 0x00 0e   25W PCIX 100MHz


3    1 0x00 00  7.5W PCI   33MHz


3    2 0x00 0f  none PCI   33MHz


4    1 0x80 01   15W PCI   66MHz


4    2 0x80 0f  none PCI   66MHz

IO9/empty/gigE/dual-port u320 scsi
dual serial/empty/1gig FC/SNOWBALL-DM3

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japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Tezro, quad 700 MHz, 5 GB at May 4, 2014, 7:20 p.m...

Here's a photo, terrible choice of monitor (1680x1050), but I'll find a 1600x1200 panel for it later.

: Shot of the Tezro after unpacking at the office.

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japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of In which I confess my love for the Apple Network Server at May 4, 2014, 10:13 p.m...

Google says "5.0V power-good input fault." Good luck with that. I have some power gear at work and they're just about to go off support, I need to busily download all the latest pieces for them as I'd like to keep them around as lab machines.

ClassicHasClass wrote: So the POWER6 threw a rod (anyone know service request code 11002624? I suspect the RAID card, because the RAID array is not coming up) and of course on a Friday afternoon when my sales rep is on Eastern time and has gone home for the weekend.

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japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Picked up an IBM p520 (9131-52A) at May 7, 2014, 6:50 p.m...

Classic, are you using LPARs on your 520? How are you managing them? I've only managed them with a HMC.

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japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of 2505-9050, or, eight digits of doom at May 8, 2014, 10:45 p.m...

Seems like you're covered either way. It doesn't take long to install AIX so why not try to get the array back, but have your CDs ready if you're in for a reinstall. Or maybe this was a call for bets and we should all get those in? In which case, what's the spread?

At $WORK our power systems are all using the volume manager only, no raid. Which through our consultant for a loop. Then again, we don't have a raid controller not believing all the parts belong together.

Most of the power systems are even without raid controllers, but one of the 520s has a raid controller - I found this out because the battery died - how does one go about managing such a thing? It's not like a LSI card in a PC server where I press a key combo at boot time - or I don't know what to press at least.

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japes
Donor
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Fuel prototype (BLUE!) at May 16, 2014, 4:24 p.m...

The yellow M4T28-BR12SH1 is just a battery and a crystal for the real time clock, maybe some nvram. The Dallas chip is all in one with the rtc and ram. And annoying.

I just replaced the one in my Tezro, all happy now. Trying to decide if I want to pick up a couple of those yellow batteries for the tezro, fuel and origin future failures.

japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Tezro, quad 700 MHz, 5 GB at May 16, 2014, 6:26 p.m...

Tezro idles at about 340 watts with two 15k drives.

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japes
Donor
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Fuel prototype (BLUE!) at May 19, 2014, 10:20 a.m...

If I get a chance I'll read the i2c 24C04 eeprom.

japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Your favourite hip-hop/rap? at June 12, 2014, 10:37 p.m...

Not a huge fan, but I like the electronic instruments sometimes used. I couldn't tell you something I like, but since I live in the Seattle area I have to lend some support to Sir Mix-A-Lot he was popular during my middle and high school year, he's a local guy and a pretty good all around guy.

And there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYOU8jyTAtI

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japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of If you could only have one at July 5, 2014, 12:22 a.m...

Like others here, it depends on the day. A R5000/180 Indy is nice and compact, super quiet and capable of doing some light duty work. I like it for it's smallness. My first machines were a couple Indigo2s and I sometimes kick myself for not saving my R10k that I'd given to a friend when he loaded it up to take to the dump.

But if I were thinking hard about it I'd probably hold onto a Fuel. Every so often they go for a good price - I know I sold one for under $200 on ebay once sadly. The Fuel fits where any PC tower might hide - and PCI makes adding sound and external SCSI or SAS easy enough. Failing to find a good deal on a Fuel I'd settle on an Octane, favoring dual cpus though.

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japes
Donor
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Thinking of grabbing a POWER server at July 22, 2014, 1:20 p.m...

You have some impressively bad luck with some hardware there. I built a machine with a left over Intel core i5 to be a freenas box. I used the cheapest MSI motherboard you can imagine - just whatever I could get for ~$50 at Frys when I picked up the i7 which replaced the i5 in my desktop. The FreeNAS machine currently reports it's been running for 323 days! I set it on the floor in my living room - booted from a USB key and it serves up a mirror pair of surveillance seagate 1TB drives. Point being cheap works fine sometimes - now I'm not driving that CPU 95% all day long. I could give you a half dozen examples of my systems running flawless - but you've heard that already.

I found a Sun Blade 1000 for free on craigslist and couldn't help myself - I haven't had a chance to spend any time on it yet, but I'll be running Solaris on it so for whatever that's worth.

If you do want a power6 machine, 520s are starting to show up on ebay for ~$1000 give or take - but you know that won't have a graphics card, and it won't have a rail kit. I use AIX on power at work and we have graphics on one 520 and it runs CDE and honestly - I'd rather use anything else. Actually the drives and sas cage/backplane were scavenged to build up a 550 instead, so it doesn't do anything right now.

japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Indy R4600 133MHz, 128MB, 24-bit Newport NG1 at Aug. 15, 2014, 1:04 p.m...

I might have a logo, let me check my inventory. It would have been from an Origin 200 front door.

Why bother forcing a refresh rate faster than 60 Hz? Unless you're looking at a CRT monitor I don't see the point. 60 Hz is just fine feeding a LCD (as long as it syncs properly).

I really like the Indy. My Indy was out running Photoshop at a local vintage computer faire last weekend.

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japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Octane MXI 2x195 R10k at Aug. 20, 2014, 5:19 p.m...

Some photos of the lightbar I modded to be LED. Red is stock, but replaced the white bulbs with a white and a blue led. It's hard to capture, but it gives a nice mixed glow.

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japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Octane MXI 2x195 R10k at Aug. 22, 2014, 10:42 p.m...

And that's the thing. Modern blue LEDs (the precursor to white) were invented ~1995. The Octane was designed in 1995ish. It was released in 1996. So if white LEDs were available they were brand new. Blue LEDs were $2 a piece and whites were more when they hit the market. The BOM on that light bar is around $1.00-$1.50, add $1-$2 for assembly - plus tooling and design. Adding another $2 for a blue led would have been a big hit to that part.

SGI probably put it in the catalog for $35-$50, but you wouldn't run the machine without a service contract so a guy with brown shoes and black trousers would just show up and replace the $3 part when you called.

Should they have made a new version for the Octane2 with white LEDs? or just a revised part? Maybe, but why bother.

The designer wanted a white light and SGI wasn't compromising design and I can understand that.

Now the question is, where does one find the extra long right-angle header? And is there a market for custom PCBs that have resistors and holes spaced for LEDs?

edit: I remember the first $5.00 white LED I bought was dim and had a terrible yellow cast. The next one I got was almost blue it was so cool. Nice what 15-20 years does to a product.

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japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Interesting lot of old apple stuff (ebay) at Aug. 30, 2014, 6:41 p.m...

An extra zero perhaps? I counted up around 4-6k if you tried to sell what was listed.

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