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Just because SGI's Administrators are so absolutely stupid ;)

I've called SGI Developer Support to send me the patch because i want to install 6.5.30 .

They have discussed this internally and then sent me the patch via e-mail. ;)


They wanted to discuss that with the database group and give me feedback. But nothing happend till today. And the patch itself is still not available for me to download. ;(

Best regards

McBlack
Just read this thread all trough ............

And I'm just ................

Blown away !!! :shock:

This would be a hell of an opportunity.


@Dr. Dave

Thanks for the time and risk you're putting into this project.

Best regards

McBlack
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ramq wrote: Then, simply run this script:

.......

And that's all there is to it - nothing more, nothing less.

I've successully done three cards so far and that covered my needs, atleast for the time beeing.


Hi there, very useful indeed, but sadly I end up with a bad checksum :(

The cards I used were HP NC7770 PCI-X 284848-001 from here http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380144771142&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Maybe someone is interested since they are selling for 6,99 Euro each (plus shipping)

Here's the output of lspci -vv on a linux machine.

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04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
Subsystem: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Gigabit Ethernet (Copper)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (16000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at febf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at f0000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=512 OST=1
Status: Dev=ff:1f.1 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple DMMRBC=512 DMOST=1 DMCRS=8 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz-
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Product Name: SGI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Read-only fields:
[PN] Part number: 9210289
[EC] Engineering changes: 0002
[SN] Serial number: WECRFF6A89
[MN] Manufacture ID: 31 30 42 37
[RV] Reserved: checksum bad, 49 byte(s) reserved
Read/write fields:
[YA] Asset tag: Hewlett Packard
[RW] Read-write area: 103 byte(s) free
End
Capabilities: [58] MSI: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/8 Enable-
Address: b676091b09465720  Data: 3cc3
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3


And my fuel won't recognise the card in IRIX (the card is there in the hinv with correct PCI-IDs. It also shows up correctly in the prom hinv) .

Also my Octane won't recognise the card. Says something like "cannot connect to tg1". Can lookup the exact message when I get back home.

Also the card doesn't show up with "ifconfig -a" or "tgcmd inventory" (on both machines).

Could someone help me with the checksum here since I've tried the

I've used the shell code below to compute the checksum over the hexdump, this time just hex bytes with one space, no linebreaks etc.

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( echo obase=16
echo ibase=16
echo \(00 `cat hexsgi  | cut -b 1-$[3*16] `\)%100 | sed -e 's/ /+/g' | tr a-z A-Z  ) | bc


from above but get a

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(standard_in) 2: parse error

with bc under fedora 11 and I don't have a clue how to fix (calculate) it ? Would be great.

The output of

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cat test.dump | cut -b 1-$[3*16] |sed -e 's/ /+/g' | tr a-z A-Z
is

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66+99+55+AA+08+00+00+00+00+00+03+21+00+00+02+00+


I've attached the whole dump, though.

And maybe someone could send me the if_tg.o for IP35 via PM if he/she has it handy. Would be great,too.

Best regards

McBlack
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jan-jaap wrote:
* If you 'hack' the card, you don't need to hack the driver so I don't understand your request for driver binaries


I had hacked the driver before. But havn't made a backup. So I need a vanilla IP35 if_tg.o or a way to extract it from the install media.

For the octane I've made a backup. I'll test this file when I'm back home.
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Just found my Octane if_tg.o backup.

And yes, as I hacked the driver, I've changed exactly the "8011" PCI-ID . :? :roll:

So just forget my post.

Thanks anyway.
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Hi @all

I'd like to replace my PC with an Octane for the use with liveice http://liveice.sourceforge.net/ .

Did anybody ever try to compile that for Irix ?

Since I'm not "that" Software guy my knowledge in compiling is not that big. Especially not on Irix.


Any help would be great.

Best regards

McBlack

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How much for the shipping to postal code 67346 in germany ?

Best regards

Marcus
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Hi guys,

I'd like to sell my at least 1 year unused Onyx2 Deskside model.

The system is in very good cosmetic and technical condition.

4 x 400Mhz CPUs
6GB memory
GE 16 - 4
2 x RM10-256

DG5 - 8

PCI Shoebox (with gigabit ethernet)

Digital Video Card (don't know exactly what card at the moment)

Various spare parts.

Pictures of the system and a list of spare parts can be delivered on request.

I think shipping would not be safe / practical, but you choose and pay the bills ;)

Please make me an offer.

Best regards

Marcus
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Just for all to know I updated the title about the location.

This beauty is located near Mannheim.

best regards

Marcus
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