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Wrote on the subject of CF-IO Wireless and Windows at June 21, 2013, 11:38 a.m...
I have an AmbiCom WL54-CF B/G wireless card that a Windows driver was released for.

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The driver is for Windows XP. Unfortunately I'm not pushing my TransNote past 2000. You can plug the card in and load their driver and it gives the "this device cannot start" message in the device manager. HOWEVER it seems that there's more going on inside the card. By default Windows sees it as a Marvell 88W8300.

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Supposedly a Windows 2000 driver exists for this chipset but everything I have found so far directs me to the Marvell Libertas or 8335 chipset and so far every version of the driver I have found for that either does not work or it's that cruddy "download this shady driver software that asks you to buy stuff and say we don't have the driver unless you buy it."

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Wrote on the subject of Origin is sick at June 22, 2013, 1:49 p.m...
Lets try and get back on this.

After one false start where the MSC kicked out the PSU with a fault It came up the second time with a console spamming:

Code:
1A 000: =====> bridge_sanity diag  took an exception. <=====
1A 000:  EPC    : 0xc00000001fc11530
1A 000:  BadVA  : 0x0000000000000000
1A 000:  Cause  : 0x000000008000c01c

Another power cycle stopped that. Configuration is still sitting at one flashed and working node, a healthy Irix install and a bunch of other nodes with disabled CPU's disabled ram and PROM versions that I cannot seem to get irix to flash.

Edited: Woah.

Code:
IP27 PROM SGI Version 6.156  built 11:27:56 AM Nov 18, 2003
Testing/Initializing memory ...............             DONE
Copying PROM code to memory ...............             DONE
Discovering local IO ......................
Found an io Board with nic 030-1275-002.

Found an io Board with nic 030-1275-004.
DONE
Discovering NUMAlink connectivity .........             DONE
Found 5 objects (3 hubs, 2 routers) in 55798 usec
Waiting for peers to complete discovery....             DONE
Recognized 390 MHz midplane
Global master is /hw/module/1/slot/n1
*** Barrier sync warning: local=4418, NIC 0x329e00=4400 (promrev mismatch?)
*** Barrier sync warning: local=4446, NIC 0x329e00=4428 (promrev mismatch?)
*** Barrier sync warning: local=4908, NIC 0x329e00=4890 (promrev mismatch?)
*** Barrier sync warning: local=4981, NIC 0x329e00=4963 (promrev mismatch?)
Testing/Initializing all memory ...........             DONE
waiting for node with nic 329e00 at module 1 slot 2 at global barrier.....
*** Barrier sync warning: local=5108, NIC 0x329e00=5090 (promrev mismatch?)
waiting for node with nic 3472e2 at module 1 slot 3 at global barrier...........

Checking partitioning information .........             DONE
*** Barrier sync warning: local=5355, NIC 0x329e00=5337 (promrev mismatch?)
Loading BASEIO prom .......................             DONE

BASEIO PROM Monitor SGI Version 6.156  built 11:26:28 AM Nov 18, 2003 (BE64)
6 CPUs on 3 nodes found.
Installing PROM Device drivers ............
Base I/O Ethernet set to /dev/ethernet/ef0

Walking SCSI Adapter 0 (/hw/module/1/slot/io1), (pci id 0)
1+ 2- 3- 4- 5- 6+ 7- 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- = 2 device(s)


Walking SCSI Adapter 1 (/hw/module/1/slot/io1), (pci id 1)
1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- = 0 device(s)

Initializing PROM Device drivers ..........             DONE
Checking hardware inventory ...............                      Found new or re
-enabled component MEM BANK 0 1 2 3
***Warning: Found a new MSCSI board in module 1, slot io7, serial EAX394
Please use the 'update' command from the PROM Monitor to update the inventory
***Warning: Found a new IP27 board in module 1, slot n3, serial HXC897
Please use the 'update' command from the PROM Monitor to update the inventory
DONE

**** System Configuration and Diagnostics Summary ****
CONFIG:
No. of NODEs enabled    = 3
No. of NODEs disabled   = 0
No. of CPUs enabled     = 6
No. of CPUs disabled    = 0
Mem enabled             = 1792 MB
Mem disabled            = 0 MB
No. of RTRs enabled     = 2
No. of RTRs disabled    = 0

DIAG RESULTS:
ALL DIAGS PASSED.
**** End System Configuration and Diagnostics Summary ****


System Maintenance Menu

1) Start System
2) Install System Software
3) Run Diagnostics
4) Recover System
5) Enter Command Monitor

Option? 5
Command Monitor.  Type "exit" to return to the menu.
>> hinv -v
IP27 Node Board, Module 1, Slot n1
ASIC HUB Rev 5, 100 MHz, (nasid 0)
Processor A: 250 MHz R10000 Rev 3.4
Secondary Cache 4MB 250MHz Tap 0x9 , (cpu 0)
R10010FPC Rev 3.4
Processor B: 250 MHz R10000 Rev 3.4
Secondary Cache 4MB 250MHz Tap 0x9 , (cpu 1)
R10010FPC Rev 3.4
Memory on board, 256 MBytes (Standard)
Bank 0, 128 MBytes (Standard)  <-- (Software Bank 0)
Bank 1, 128 MBytes (Standard)
IP27 Node Board, Module 1, Slot n2
ASIC HUB Rev 5, 100 MHz, (nasid 1)
Processor A: 250 MHz R10000 Rev 3.4
Secondary Cache 4MB 250MHz Tap 0x19 , (cpu 2)
R10010FPC Rev 3.4
Processor B: 250 MHz R10000 Rev 3.4
Secondary Cache 4MB 250MHz Tap 0x19 , (cpu 3)
R10010FPC Rev 3.4
Memory on board, 512 MBytes (Standard)
Bank 0, 128 MBytes (Standard)  <-- (Software Bank 0)
Bank 1, 128 MBytes (Standard)
Bank 2, 128 MBytes (Standard)
Bank 3, 128 MBytes (Standard)
IP27 Node Board, Module 1, Slot n3
ASIC HUB Rev 5, 100 MHz, (nasid 2)
Processor A: 250 MHz R10000 Rev 3.4
Secondary Cache 4MB 250MHz Tap 0x9 , (cpu 4)
R10010FPC Rev 3.4
Processor B: 250 MHz R10000 Rev 3.4
Secondary Cache 4MB 250MHz Tap 0x9 , (cpu 5)
R10010FPC Rev 3.4
Memory on board, 1024 MBytes (Standard)
Bank 0, 256 MBytes (Standard)  <-- (Software Bank 0)
Bank 1, 256 MBytes (Standard)
Bank 2, 256 MBytes (Standard)
Bank 3, 256 MBytes (Standard)
BASEIO IO Board, Module 1, Slot io1
ASIC BRIDGE Rev 4, (widget 8)
adapter PCI-SCSI Rev 5
(pci id 0)
peripheral SCSI DISK, ID 1, IBM DXHS18Y
peripheral SCSI CDROM, ID 6, TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5401TA
adapter PCI-SCSI Rev 5
(pci id 1)
adapter IOC3 Rev 1
(pci id 2)
controller multi function SuperIO
controller Ethernet Rev 1
adapter IOC3 Rev 1
(pci id 6)
controller multi function SuperIO
controller Keyboard/Mouse
controller Parallel Port
adapter RAD
(pci id 7)
PCI_XIO IO Board, Module 1, Slot io2
ASIC BRIDGE Rev 3, (widget 12)
adapter ID (Vendor 14e4 Device 1645 class 2 subclass 2)
(pci id 0)
adapter ID (Vendor 10df Device fc00 class c subclass c)
(pci id 1)
XTALK_PCI IO Board, Module 1, Slot io6
ASIC BRIDGE Rev 4, (widget 13)
adapter ID (Vendor 10a9 Device 9 class 2 subclass 2)
(pci id 1)
XTALK_PCI IO Board, Module 1, Slot io5
ASIC BRIDGE Rev 4, (widget 14)
adapter ID (Vendor 1077 Device 2200 class 1 subclass 1)
(pci id 1)
MSCSI IO Board, Module 1, Slot io7
ASIC BRIDGE Rev 3, (widget 14)
adapter PCI-SCSI Rev 5
(pci id 0)
adapter PCI-SCSI Rev 5
(pci id 1)
adapter PCI-SCSI Rev 5
(pci id 2)
adapter PCI-SCSI Rev 5
(pci id 3)
ASIC ROUTER , Module 1, Slot r1 (nasid 1)
ASIC ROUTER , Module 1, Slot r2 (nasid 2)
MIDPLANE, Module 1 Frequency 390 MHz
ASIC XBOW Rev 4, on midplane of Module 1
MIDPLANE, Module 1 Frequency 390 MHz
ASIC XBOW Rev 4, on midplane of Module 1
MARDIGRAS Graphics Board, Module 1, Slot io4
>>


Suddenly two nodes started working fine. CPU's and ram are behaving as well. Lemme see if it boots.

Edited: Yeah. Aside from PROM rev mismatches the system is running on three nodeboards suddenly with not a peep about CPU or ram failures.

Code:
>> auto


Starting up the system...

Loading dksc(0,1,8)/sash: 896+111764+16853+3848 entry: 0xa8000000012a6ee4
4460239+1061168+992208 entry: 0xa80000000001a750
WARNING: downrev router board in module 1 slot r1
WARNING: downrev router board in module 1 slot r1
WARNING: downrev router board in module 1 slot r2
IRIX Release 6.5 IP27 Version 01090133 System V - 64 Bit
Copyright 1987-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.

Setting rbaud to 19200
/hw/module/1/slot/io5/xtalk_pci/pci/1/scsi_ctlr/0: Firmware version: 2.2.6: TP.
/hw/module/1/slot/io5/xtalk_pci/pci/1/scsi_ctlr/0: Response in of 32768 is inval
id, rereading.
/hw/module/1/slot/io5/xtalk_pci/pci/1/scsi_ctlr/0: Response in of 32768 is inval
id, ignoring.
/hw/module/1/slot/io5/xtalk_pci/pci/1/scsi_ctlr/0: Response in of 32768 is inval
id, rereading.
/hw/module/1/slot/io5/xtalk_pci/pci/1/scsi_ctlr/0: Response in of 32768 is inval
id, ignoring.
/hw/module/1/slot/io5/xtalk_pci/pci/1/scsi_ctlr/0: Response in of 32768 is inval
id, rereading.
/hw/module/1/slot/io5/xtalk_pci/pci/1/scsi_ctlr/0: Response in of 32768 is inval
id, ignoring.
/hw/module/1/slot/io5/xtalk_pci/pci/1/scsi_ctlr/0: no cable detected.
NOTICE: Starting failsoftd
The system is coming up.

network: WARNING: IRIS's Internet address is the default.
Using standalone network mode.
WARNING: ef0: link fail - check ethernet cable
Warning:  Internet Gateway web server running as root.
Use "chkconfig webface_apache off" to disable.
Starting new eventmond...
No System change detected.



IRIS console login: root
IRIX Release 6.5 IP27 IRIS
Copyright 1987-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Last login: Thu May 30 22:00:28 PDT 2013 on ttyd1
TERM = (vt100)
IRIS 1# hinv -v
6 250 MHZ IP27 Processors
CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.4
FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.4
CPU 0 at Module 1/Slot 1/Slice A: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x9
CPU 1 at Module 1/Slot 1/Slice B: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x9
CPU 2 at Module 1/Slot 2/Slice A: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x19
CPU 3 at Module 1/Slot 2/Slice B: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x19
CPU 4 at Module 1/Slot 3/Slice A: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x9
CPU 5 at Module 1/Slot 3/Slice B: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x9
Main memory size: 1792 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 4 Mbytes
Memory at Module 1/Slot 1: 256 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 1 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Memory at Module 1/Slot 2: 512 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 1 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 2 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 3 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Memory at Module 1/Slot 3: 1024 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 256 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)
ROUTER in Module 1/Slot 2: Revision 2: Active Ports [4,5,6] (enabled)
ROUTER in Module 1/Slot 3: Revision 2: Active Ports [5,6] (enabled)
Integral SCSI controller 3: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
Integral SCSI controller 4: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
Integral SCSI controller 5: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
Integral SCSI controller 6: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Integral SCSI controller 2: Version Fibre Channel QL2200A, 33 MHz PCI
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: EMXI
Gigabit Ethernet: eg0, module 1, XIO slot io6, firmware version 0.0.0
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 1, slot io1, pci 2
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 7.0, number 1
Origin MSCSI board, module 1 slot 7: Revision 3
Origin BASEIO board, module 1 slot 1: Revision 4
Origin PCI XIO board, module 1 slot 2: Revision 3
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 2
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 3
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1645) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10df, device 0xfc00) PCI slot 1
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
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0009) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x2200) PCI slot 1
IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1
HUB in Module 1/Slot 1: Revision 5 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)
HUB in Module 1/Slot 2: Revision 5 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)
HUB in Module 1/Slot 3: Revision 5 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)
IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n1: Revision 6.156
IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n2: Revision 6.69
IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n3: Revision 6.156
IO6prom on Global Master Baseio in Module 1/Slot io1: Revision 6.156
IRIS 2#


Edited: WTF? Yes we still have the rev mismatch but I'm now getting healthy boots with all CPU's enabled and no disabled ram and I didn't do anything but add nodes.

EDITED: Oh..

Code:
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Number of consecutive exceptions
(physical  HARDWARE ERROR STATE:
+  Errors on node Nasid 0x2 (2)
+    IP27 in /hw/module/1/slot/n3 [serial number HXC897]
+      HUB signalled following errors.
+        ICRB4_A entry Register: 0xa0000190052040
+          39<->02: SN0Net address 0x64014810
+          56<->56: CRB has an error
+        ICRB4_B entry Register: 0xa5104e000000
+        ICRB6_A entry Register: 0xa0000190052040
+          39<->02: SN0Net address 0x64014810
+          56<->56: CRB has an error
+        ICRB6_B entry Register: 0xa5104e000000
+        ICRB9_A entry Register: 0xa0000190052040
+          39<->02: SN0Net address 0x64014810
+          56<->56: CRB has an error
+        ICRB9_B entry Register: 0xa5104e000000
+        ICRBb_A entry Register: 0xa0000190052040
+          39<->02: SN0Net address 0x64014810
+          56<->56: CRB has an error
+        ICRBb_B entry Register: 0xa5104e000000
+        ICRBc_A entry Register: 0xa0000190052040
+          39<->02: SN0Net address 0x64014810
+          56<->56: CRB has an error
+        ICRBc_B entry Register: 0xa5104e000000
End Hardware Error State


++FRU ANALYSIS BEGIN
++
++
++                      FRU Analysis Summary
++
++      Software                                        : 70%
++
++FRU ANALYSIS END
PANIC: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Kernel Data Bus error in Cached spa
ce at physical address 0x3200a4010 /hw/module/1/slot/n4/node/memory/dimm_bank/1
(EPC 0xc000000000020440)
NOTICE - cpu 4 didn't dump TLB, may be hung

Dumping to /hw/module/1/slot/io1/baseio/pci/0/scsi_ctlr/0/target/1/lun/0/disk/pa
rtition/1/block at block 0, space: 0x2000 pages
Waiting 5 seconds for I/O processor.
CPU 3 is the I/O processor.
Dumping low memory...
Dumping static kernel pages......
Dumping pfdat pages....
Dumping backtrace pages...
Dumping dynamic kernel pages.........
Dumping buffer pages...
Dumping remaining in-use pages......WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/
a: Number of consecutive exceptions (physical address 0x3200a4000) exceeded limi
t
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Unrecoverable bus error exception
, node 0x3 paddr 0x3200a4000
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Mem info: standard dir entry hi 0
x0 entry lo 0x33a3
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Number of consecutive exceptions
(physical address 0x3202a4000) exceeded limit
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Unrecoverable bus error exception
, node 0x3 paddr 0x3202a4000
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Mem info: standard dir entry hi 0
x0 entry lo 0x33a3

Dumping free pages............WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Num
ber of consecutive exceptions (physical address 0x320000000) exceeded limit
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Unrecoverable bus error exception
, node 0x3 paddr 0x320000000
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Mem info: standard dir entry hi 0
x0 entry lo 0x312c
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Number of consecutive exceptions
(physical address 0x320004000) exceeded limit
WARNING: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node/cpubus/0/a: Unrecoverable bus error exception
, node 0x3 paddr 0x320004000
(this continues on and on...)


A reboot found that the ram in the last node failed again. The system came up fine after it was disabled I'll work with that later but for now the whole system is now up and running.
Code:
IRIS 2# hinv -v
8 250 MHZ IP27 Processors
CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.4
FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.4
CPU 0 at Module 1/Slot 1/Slice A: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x9
CPU 1 at Module 1/Slot 1/Slice B: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x9
CPU 2 at Module 1/Slot 2/Slice A: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x19
CPU 3 at Module 1/Slot 2/Slice B: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x19
CPU 4 at Module 1/Slot 3/Slice A: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x9
CPU 5 at Module 1/Slot 3/Slice B: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x9
CPU 6 at Module 1/Slot 4/Slice A: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x0
CPU 7 at Module 1/Slot 4/Slice B: 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.4. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 250 Mhz  Tap 0x0
Main memory size: 1920 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 4 Mbytes
Memory at Module 1/Slot 1: 256 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 1 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Memory at Module 1/Slot 2: 512 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 1 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 2 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 3 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Memory at Module 1/Slot 3: 1024 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 256 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)
Memory at Module 1/Slot 4: 128 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 1 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (disabled)
ROUTER in Module 1/Slot 2: Revision 2: Active Ports [4,5,6] (enabled)
ROUTER in Module 1/Slot 4: Revision 2: Active Ports [4,5,6] (enabled)
Integral SCSI controller 3: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
Integral SCSI controller 4: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
Integral SCSI controller 5: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
Integral SCSI controller 6: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 2: Version Fibre Channel QL2200A, 33 MHz PCI
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: EMXI
Gigabit Ethernet: eg0, module 1, XIO slot io6, firmware version 0.0.0
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 1, slot io1, pci 2
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 7.0, number 1
Origin PCI XIO board, module 1 slot 2: Revision 3
Origin MSCSI board, module 1 slot 7: Revision 3
Origin BASEIO board, module 1 slot 1: Revision 4
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1645) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10df, device 0xfc00) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 2
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 3
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0009) PCI slot 1
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
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x2200) PCI slot 1
IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1
HUB in Module 1/Slot 1: Revision 5 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)
HUB in Module 1/Slot 2: Revision 5 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)
HUB in Module 1/Slot 3: Revision 5 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)
HUB in Module 1/Slot 4: Revision 5 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)
IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n1: Revision 6.156
IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n2: Revision 6.69
IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n3: Revision 6.156
IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n4: Revision 6.57
IO6prom on Global Master Baseio in Module 1/Slot io1: Revision 6.156


Edited. I hate computers.
Removed the node, clean the ram and the slots. Put it back in....

Code:
IP27 PROM SGI Version 6.156  built 11:27:56 AM Nov 18, 2003
Testing/Initializing memory ...............             DONE
Copying PROM code to memory ...............             DONE
Discovering local IO ......................
Found an io Board with nic 030-1275-002.

Found an io Board with nic 030-1275-004.
DONE
Discovering NUMAlink connectivity .........             DONE
Found 6 objects (4 hubs, 2 routers) in 66460 usec
Waiting for peers to complete discovery....             DONE
Recognized 390 MHz midplane
Global master is /hw/module/1/slot/n1
*** Barrier sync warning: local=4418, NIC 0x329e00=4400 (promrev mismatch?)
*** Barrier sync warning: local=4446, NIC 0x329e00=4428 (promrev mismatch?)
*** Barrier sync warning: local=4908, NIC 0x329e00=4890 (promrev mismatch?)
*** Barrier sync warning: local=4981, NIC 0x329e00=4963 (promrev mismatch?)
Testing/Initializing all memory ...........             DONE
Initializing headless node at nasid 3
.----- MEMORY FAILURE (miscompare, node slot 1) -----
No hub MD error registered
Address      0xa800000300001000
Actual       0x9e0de114090dde55
Expected     0x9e0de51c090dde55
Difference   0x0000040800000000
----- MEMORY FAILURE (miscompare, node slot 1) -----
No hub MD error registered
Address      0xa800000300001020
Actual       0xa20d994439360ab9
Expected     0xa20d9d4c39360ab9
Difference   0x0000040800000000
----- MEMORY FAILURE (miscompare, node slot 1) -----
No hub MD error registered
Address      0xa800000300001040
Actual       0xa60d5174695e371d
Expected     0xa60d557c695e371d
Difference   0x0000040800000000
----- MEMORY FAILURE (miscompare, node slot 1) -----
No hub MD error registered
Address      0xa800000300001060
Actual       0xaa0d09a499866381
Expected     0xaa0d0dac99866381
Difference   0x0000040800000000
Exceeded maximum error count (stopping)
.......*** Swapping bank 0 with bank 1 on headless node nasid 3
Discovering local IO ......................             DONE
*** Barrier sync warning: local=5108, NIC 0x329e00=5090 (promrev mismatch?)
waiting for node with nic 3472e2 at module 1 slot 3 at global barrier.......
Checking partitioning information .........             DONE
*** Barrier sync warning: local=5355, NIC 0x329e00=5337 (promrev mismatch?)
Loading BASEIO prom .......................             DONE

BASEIO PROM Monitor SGI Version 6.156  built 11:26:28 AM Nov 18, 2003 (BE64)
6 CPUs on 4 nodes found.
Installing PROM Device drivers ............
Base I/O Ethernet set to /dev/ethernet/ef0

Walking SCSI Adapter 0 (/hw/module/1/slot/io1), (pci id 0)
1+ 2- 3- 4- 5- 6+ 7- 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- = 2 device(s)


Walking SCSI Adapter 1 (/hw/module/1/slot/io1), (pci id 1)
1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- = 0 device(s)

Initializing PROM Device drivers ..........             DONE
Checking hardware inventory ...............                      Found new or re
-enabled component MEM BANK 0 1 2 3
***Warning: Found a new IP27 board in module 1, slot n3, serial HXC897
Please use the 'update' command from the PROM Monitor to update the inventory
***Warning: Found a new IP27 board in module 1, slot n4, serial JHL636
Please use the 'update' command from the PROM Monitor to update the inventory
***Warning: Found a new MSCSI board in module 1, slot io7, serial EAX394
Please use the 'update' command from the PROM Monitor to update the inventory
DONE

**** System Configuration and Diagnostics Summary ****
CONFIG:
No. of NODEs enabled    = 4
No. of NODEs disabled   = 0
No. of CPUs enabled     = 6
No. of CPUs disabled    = 2
Mem enabled             = 1920 MB
Mem disabled            = 128 MB
No. of RTRs enabled     = 2
No. of RTRs disabled    = 0

DIAG RESULTS:
/hw/module/1/slot/n4/node/cpu/0: CPU A disabled
Reason: PROM copied to memory (bank 0) is bad.
/hw/module/1/slot/n4/node/cpu/1: CPU B disabled
Reason: PROM copied to memory (bank 0) is bad.
/hw/module/1/slot/n4/node/mem: MEMBANK(S) 0  disabled
Reason:
Bank 0: Some DIMMs failed mem test.
**** End System Configuration and Diagnostics Summary ****

Lovely. The node went back to being completely unusable again. Should of left it alone when it was at least leaving the CPU's enabled.

Last edit for now, I swear: I got the CPU's back by rotating the ram around (which still fail) and cleaning the compression connector, but now node 1 is silently failing at boot and locking the system up......I'm done for now.

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I've never upgraded them. They were both in there when I bought the system and it's four original 180mhz nodeboards.
I'm kind of scared to start moving the nodes. The last time I rotated them around everything went to hell. Right now aside from 128mb or ram being offline they are all generally behaving. It could be that the many, many insertions and removals have finally caught up to the compression connectors.

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But you got to smoke cigarettes on the shop floor. :twisted:

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Was pulling strings with an AmbiCom subsidiary and it got to a point where they just emailed me the source code for the driver. :shock:
Okay, that's another way to make this work. Take the XP driver and find out why it doesn't work in 2000.

Unfortunately my driver skills are non-existant. The code is a also confusing. the batch files all refernce CE but form time to time I find mentions of NT32 or Windows32.

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* I am not entirely sure that AmbiCom would appreciate you distributing their driver code to all and sundry.
* Kinda surprised that Recondas or maybe Pete hasn't jumped on you for posting it.


Well even though they literally mailed me the code, I'll snip it out and ask elsewhere.
You CAN run XP on the TransNote however it's like bulking up a Powermac 6100 to run system 8 or force it into System 9. You can do it but the hardware limitations are going to REALLY cut down on what the computer can do.

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In the process I also went to a Thinkpad 380D. Lenovo still has the driver downloads page for the system up so getting drivers was not all that hard however I'm running into glitches I need help with.

-Unless I'm jacked into the network the system takes forever to boot.
-I inserted one of my SanDisk flash cards and now it has reserved D and E to cards which currently are not inserted. Can I at least rallocate the letters to E and F and leave the CD at D?
-Shutting down does not turn off the laptop. It just dumps at you the "SHUTDOWN COMPLETE. PRESS CTRL + ALT + DEL TO REBOOT" screen.
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One of these would be cool in a nice Fuel red. The particular shade of brown they chose was ... unfortunate :(

That was before sgi got hip to muted pastels... 8-)


Bull sold a rebadged 4D/20 with white skin panels.
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I know when you login from a serial console by default it asks for a terminal type and recommends a VT100. I'm aware that there is more terminal definitions in /usr/lib/terminfo/* but from what I'm seeing so far it's all for AT&T equipment. There's nothing specifically for systems like the ASR43 or LA120 that I can find. Are those just not included?

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I know when you login from a serial console by default it asks for a terminal type and recommends a VT100. I'm aware that there is more terminal definitions in /usr/lib/terminfo/* but from what I'm seeing so far it's all for AT&T equipment. There's nothing specifically for systems like the ASR43 or LA120 that I can find. Are those just not included?


You could always just roll your own. As people who needed or wanted to have done. Its not a secret closed system.

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I tried that before with a Televideo terminal and it didn't seem to work.

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A few of the newer Ultra320 SCSI drives eliminate the ability for them to work on the older SCSI buses. It is however almost assured though that any 16gb drive will be old enough to work and still provide plenty of space for an Indy. The only thing you will then need is an SCA 80 pin adapter.

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I've only know of Apple's in-house built twinax card. I've only seen it ONCE and apparently they DID sell them but they were obviously not a hot seller.
I'm pretty sure one of IBM's twinax cables for their own cards and terminals will work fine with that card but if it isn't the Apple card I have no idea where you could find extensions.
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$500 for an ugly, empty box.

Such a deal.


Hey, it's ebay. The reptile pavilion at the wildlife park has more spines in it. :roll:

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I'm putting money on a power supply getting cranky. The key thing you mentioned was you had to remove it from mains power to get it to behave and it's been known for a while that they can be troublesome. We just have not had too many people messing with their Indy's as of late so we assumed most of the bad PSU's were weeded out.

Still, it might not hurt to try a recap.
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This is what you get with dealers. Have no real idea of the value so they keep pushing a pretty ridiculous figure and won't budge on the price after months of not selling. Finally when they can't wait any longer instead of dropping the price they assume nobody is interested and send it out for gold extraction.

What's the matter? Your ego can't live with selling cheaper than you think it is?
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Well I can say that if you have a 330mb hard drive you want to install on, please don't. I'm literally 15mb and three LPP's short of a complete install and I'm completely out of disk space. Don't think I can resize my partititions either.

Well that was a waste of a friday and seven hours of my life.... :P
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Okay, so after a lot of complaining, a half dozen bad floppies and a half dozen false starts the install is complete short of two or three LPP's which I didn't need (DOS server, Image Adapter/A support and the tape backup unit I don't have) I got all the other available LPP's loaded onto a 780mb Maxtor with an extra 20mb FAT partition for me to multiboot DOS 5 and use DOSmerge.
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The result is....well it's a Unix distro. Acts like the later version of AIX on my 850 with some commands and programs either added or removed ( is the loss of SMIT a good thing?), the keyboard layout is absurd and I do believe I've already confused the window manager. System seems to work with my multiport serial card, the 3C523 isn't up yet as I need to read through /usr/nifl/3com/ but the token ring is definately supported and detected even though I completely lack any token ring infrastructure. Should of bought an MAU at Weirdstuff....
The system is running rather unstable. While it has 12mb installed, 8mb of which sits on an AST Rampage Plus/MC that while loaded with good parity Toshiba ram has something about it which causes the installer to panic, memtest to crash and the reference diskette diagnostic utility to try and disable it. It's nuts to run without it though because at 4mb on the planar the system swaps for something as simple as moving the mouse cursor across the screen.

Anyways, me being Pentium and me never really knowing what the hell I am doing right off the bat I want into a window manager to screw about in a graphical environment however right off the bat I somehow broke X. Image Normally xinit should start up aixwm as per the documentation but...
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You get another window manager instead. Now you can kill it and fire up aixwm from the command line...
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While it sorta works stuff like the tools window doesn't work. It's just a blank screen. At least the clock works.
Failing that of course there's also Motif.
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Again, it's a bit broken. I installed the x11 samples LPP but I can't find where the heck everything went. I can't see it in /usr/bin/X11.
I have also learned you can make 5.25" hard drive brackets for the model 80 by taking a hard drive sled from a model 30 or 55SX, cutting it in two and drilling an extra hole in the two pieces.
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Guys, I need help. I don't know what I'm doing.
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I don't know what I'm doing either. ;)

I can boot, I can login and right now because multiple window systems are installed I cannot run X productively.
The network driver is also not deployed as I can't read the instructions and I have yet to compile anything.
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Guys, please intervene if I ever become like this. :P
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Vancouver's SkyTrain system has been upgraded at least twice in almost 30 years but at last check it was running on three IBM Industrial Computers and OS/2. Quite a large upgrade considering originally they ran something like a VAX 11 or DECsystem but don't want to know the black magic needed to port the SEL Trac control software.4 While the computers themselves have never failed to a point where there was a major shutdown a lot of the infrastructure it connects to has and last month the lone connection between the computers and repeaters went down in the biggest failure in the history of the system, stopping everything dead for hours. The next five hours can best be described with the following photoshop and " OH MY GOD ".

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People have been screaming for a complete upgrade ever since but at $20 million, good luck seeing that for a while.
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Does anyone have any kind of information on this version of Softimage 3D? I've come across a copy of it but the only thing I can dig up is that licenses are nodelocked and impossible to get now. I can't find anything on minimum, recommended or maximum system requirements, or what systems it supported.
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Wrote on the subject of SI|3D 2.6 Info at Sept. 7, 2014, 8:11 p.m...
Ah, okay. So it's a very early 90's release and thus it runs on just about anything. Interesting tidbit about the possible floating licenses but again, you'll never find that. I guess I have a cool conversation piece at the least.
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Wrote on the subject of Vintage hardware buying binge and other projects at Sept. 8, 2014, 9:08 a.m...
hamei wrote: ^ 20 million ? pffft :roll: Oracle could do it for a mere 200 mil and the system still wouldn't work !

Ain't the Private Sector grand ?


If I were Hongcouver, I'd be afraid. Very afraid. After they upgrade this system with COTS Dell boxes and new wiring hand-made by pygmies in Botswana (it's our fiduciary responsibility to save money and bring the consumers better value !), all running Windows Vista (it was on sale), the upgrade won't go six weeks between total burndowns :P

Well actually, in the last year they did upgrade the scheduling computers to Wintel Dell machines, so you aren't TOO far off, mind you the system will operate on a failsafe if that system goes down.
The control room has changed a lot since 1986.
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Speaking of failsafes, not three days after the breakdown someone managed to flip a breaker 10km away. It wasn't a hydro utility breaker. Just a private breaker operating part of the transit system. Through convoluted wiring arrangement this cause the entire computer system at the control center to lose power but not trigger the diesel backup to start. With over 150 trains requiring constant synchronization with the central computers, it took another three hours for all of them to be manually synced into the computer before they could put the system back in automatic.
We ran flawlessly for decades and if anything, the upgrading made the system more unstable.
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Wrote on the subject of Vintage hardware buying binge and other projects at Sept. 9, 2014, 10:19 a.m...
I did a university paper on this so I know a lot about the first five years of service.
They ran the system for almost six months in every possible configuration before the official opening. Scarborough opened using the same system a few months before Vancouver did and several major bugs got weeded out there before Vancouver went into public service (phantom trains, power rails icing up, etc.). No major interruptions occurred in the following year (which was nice because it was a major component of Expo 86) aside from malfunctioning door buttons making the computer hold up trains at the platforms. Considering that three years previous the entire ICTS technology was still a prototype with no existing system beyond a 2km loop of track outside of Kingston you really got to wonder how Vancouver winged it and got away with it for so long. Most automated transit technologies were dead-ends but ICTS (now Innovia ART) systems are still being built.
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Wrote on the subject of Vintage hardware buying binge and other projects at Sept. 10, 2014, 1:06 a.m...
I had one of those sylistic tablets breifly. Had the pen and everything but the IDE controller was dead because it could not see a hard drive or the CD drive in the docking station. Modern computers are pretty useless with no hard drive. :/
Getting apple floppy disk images to physical media on anything that was not a an apple II or mac itself has always been a nightmare. Ive seen so much shady software and expensive addon cards. I ended up getting a powerbook 180 and loaded it with all the floppy writing tools I could get. Now I can image and write macintosh, lisa and Apple II 3.5" disks. A localtalk bridge is used to connect to my server which stores everything.
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Wrote on the subject of Shellshock at Sept. 25, 2014, 8:56 a.m...
Now that the word is out about this absolutely massive bash exploit, should any of us folks still running Irix machines on the net be at all concerned?

An article on it.
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Wrote on the subject of Indigo2 - Scan at Oct. 1, 2014, 9:10 p.m...
Freaking.
Beautiful.
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Wrote on the subject of Ars on reality of using old 'puters & SGI accelerator idea? at Oct. 4, 2014, 8:04 a.m...
hamei wrote:
robespierre wrote: They're made by and for machines, to SEO certain search terms with links to and from other useless sites.

Could we make seo a capital offense ? Zero tolerance ?

Seriously, if they keep this crap up the web will choke itself in its own entrails.

As if we aren't already choking on spam.
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Wrote on the subject of $33 and rising for an SGI mug! at Oct. 6, 2014, 9:03 a.m...
I got this buried away. I swear I once had a vector of it.
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Wrote on the subject of Will AI be third-time-lucky? at Oct. 8, 2014, 8:15 a.m...
AI in a competent form will require organic circuits in order to overcome the absolutely massive hardware burden that process-intensive AI needs. In the last 10 years we did start to push further into biotechnology but we aren't there yet.
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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at Oct. 8, 2014, 8:59 a.m...
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?
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Wrote on the subject of Apple Workgroup Server 9650 at Oct. 21, 2014, 4:21 a.m...
Looks like a rebadged Power Mac 9600 to me.
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Wrote on the subject of Apple Workgroup Server 9650 at Oct. 22, 2014, 7:55 a.m...
It can run OS X through XPostFacto, though I would not exceed 10.3 or 10.4 on this machine.

I found that my 9600 with a G4 upgrade at least was terribly unreliable over 9.1. OS X would never even boot.
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Wrote on the subject of SBus VGA card at Oct. 24, 2014, 9:37 a.m...
I don't see why it would not unless you have multiple video cards installed.
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