The collected works of ramq - Page 1

joerg wrote: You have to install Patch 5086 first because SGI have merged the m and f stream together in .22 .

Does that mean there's nothing called "f" or "m" version of, say, 6.5.30?

mapesdhs wrote: ramq writes:
> rather a misconfigured(?) Apache webserver that denys access to any webpage on that site.

So it's the site itself that is at fault? I'm confused, how does that result in users in certain locations not being
able to access the site, while it works ok for everyone else?

As I said, it could be that they for some bizarre reason are denying certain netblocks to their Apache webserver. By mistake or some other reason, I don't know. (Seems odd, really)
The mod_access in Apache is one possible option to deny access from certain netblocks and since I get a HTTP 403 (Access denied) response from the server itself, it proves I've got full availability all the way to their webserver, but I'm denied any material whatsoever from it.

And I still can't access the site! Pity, cause I was in a buying-mood all of the sudden. Argh.

Sorry Ian, but that sounds like utter bullshit to me.
Why?
Cause I could access ebid.net at the very first post you did in this thread and watched through all the stuff you had there. Now they've managed to block the whole site from the entire swedish region.
Why didn't they block Finland? Or Norway? Or...?

And why do they do this???

We have a quick solution to this dilemma: Someone please open up a proxy server for us swedish (or other "blocked" countries).

No problem whatsoever on my funky R12k-300/V6 Octane2. It's a bit slow performing, but otherwise OK.
As with deBug, I get no segfaults.

Question: Can you make the spinning controllable, like in the SGI-demo "powerflip"?

And the last one... when will this hit Nekoware?

Martin Steen wrote: It runs VERY slow on my Octane1. Without environment-mapping (press e to switch off),
it runs fast, but it looks only half as nice, of course

It probably depends very much on what specific hardware you have. If you're using the older MGRAS-series of graphics (considering you mention specificly Octane1) I belive it can be slower. I don't believe it's that much CPU-bound cause the CPU isn't hitting top-spot, only using ~20-25% on R12k 300MHz.
(I'm no way certain, so anyone please correct me on this one)

Where can I find that powerflip demo?

It's part of the "Demonstration Programs" package on the Applications CD for IRIX 6.5.
Once installed you'll find the binary either through the desktop, or launch it using:

Another feature I'd like to see is to make it run in a window mode as an option.
And be able to zoom beyond the border of the screen making a really deep detail view.

I know I had the "cpu eater" as a possible screensaver option, but I'm trying to find out in what package it is hidden in. One way to find out is using swmgr and click "Manage installed software" and by using Ctrl+F search files from there. Be sure to include files in the search.

I know it lives in my Fuel, but it's at home and I've had little time to spare at evening time for some days now. All my install media are at home too, so I'm out of luck at the moment. (Some Octane Demos CD's maybe?)

Nice work!

And that cow is hollow...
(By looking underneath)

Other features I might find handy:
- different rotaional speed using command line arguments
- change rotaional speed using the mouse left button (like the SGI 'powerflip' demo)

About that second option; You can today rotate the object in whatever speed you'd like using mouse motion while holding the left mousebutton, but once you release the mousebutton it could remain in that speed. Kind of getting the feeling of "pushing up" the speed of it and let it continue to run.

I know these are just plain ridicoulus features, but I have a sense this application wasn't ment for the market-driven enterprise production enviroments either?

Now for everyone else to start posting different cool enviroment-maps!

edefault wrote: did a little googlin´ ... CPU eater is a wallpaper and once came with demos.sw, dunno in which IRIX version.

You are absolutely right - it's a "living" wallpaper. I gotta find out where it's originated from...

And I'm sitting with two BCM5703-based GbE cards that I'd absolutely love to stick into my Octane + Origin2k.
Hmmm.

canavan wrote: and there's also a list of "acceptable" PCI ids (and there's only one for the 5704):
http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?p=22940#p22940

Thank YOU!
Browsed through the list and found this link for the BCM5703:
http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii//?i=14e41647

It mentions SGI IO9 which sounds like IP35-territory to me?
Google results post IO9 as a ISP12160A adapter, which is SCSI... Further results points at this being a combined board in the Tezro for a complete SCSI, LAN + others board.

Apparently I wasn't looking carefully enough, so I missed the part where Linux 'lspci -vv' reported my card as a BCM5703X (notice the 'X'), which maps to no SGI hardware in the Linux pci.ids database. The BCM5701, BCM5703 and BCM5704 chips are equivalent to SGI IO9 hardware.
I did however changed the PCI-ID to 10a9:8010, but no card seems to show up in hinv on the Origin2k+shoehorn.

Looks like this NC7771 (DEGXA-TA) card is a dead end. I'd better hunt down a proper NC7770 (BCM5703 chip) and start over from there.

What's funky enough about the Belkin, is that it only show two OHCI ports. Perhaps it's two "channels" and it makes up a hub of two ports each? I don't know, but in the end it might show that the Fuel can only handle two ports on the four-port Belkin. I have to investigate this further when I find the time...

jan-jaap wrote: Hah, wait 'till you see this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0270475112
Two Tezro's, in Sweden, for $1000.

Aaargh! And I'm usually looking out on eBay daily or atleast some times a week, and now this... *bangs head to desk*

Too bad you're across the world, otherwise it would be a perfect deal.

Jan-jaap & Canavan:

Thanks for all the help! It's times like these I can't stop thinking of what if this forum didn't excist?
I owe you a beer when anyone of you happen to cross northern parts of Sweden.

EDIT: I feel ridiculous. For whatever reason my brain had a meltdown the other day, but when Canavan shed some light on this it got clear.

Well, to sum things up a little bit around this thread, I hereby posting a complete solution to fix both issues; PCI-ID and cosmetic "OBSOLETE" message.

Short instruction: Fire up a live-CD with Linux on some x86 box with the card installed. (even 32bit/33MHz slots works fine)
Make sure the live-CD has Ethtool installed and to verify things you need 'lspci' (PCI-UTILS package) to list the PCI cards in the machine.

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.

No "UNSUPPORTED" messages showing up?

Hi,

For whatever reason, we're investigating/learning IPv6 on our (me + friend of mine) lab network where a couple of x86, sparc, alpha and of course mips machines are running. IPv6 under Linux/x86 seems pretty solid:


However, doing the same thing under IRIX seems rather broken?


Anyone have a clue what's going on?

Further oddities:


...which seems about right. IP6.INT is obsolete.

6.5.30m you say...
I'm running 6.5.30 f , in case that makes any difference?

I've already added IPv6-related in nsswitch.conf:

It looks like it's "sort of" working, but the reverse-IP6 lookup still doesn't.

nekonoko : I don't see a link to a patch somewhere in that thread? The thread involves a whole other issue where in older versions of IRIX they pointed to IP6.INT (which is deprecated by now) instead of IP6.ARPA. This is fixed in later versions of IRIX:

Infact, we're using IP6.ARPA already:


I'm beginning to think the 'host' utility is broken? (FORMERR message seems obvious, = Format Error)
Any other ideas?

bplaa.yai : How did you set up you IPv6 that could differ from mine? Could you provide a 'cksum' of /usr/sbin/host?

nekonoko wrote: That was more in reply to porter; as he's running 6.5.22 and it is known to be broken in that regard. You didn't indicate which version of IRIX you were using, so it was hard to say one way or another if that was something you needed to look at as well.

Ah. My mistake.

Darn. You beat me to the SAS drive test.
All because my Fuel is still at your warehouse...

I've got a couple of Seagate ST973402SS drives I want to evaluate.

Most probably, yes.
I've got access to those drives as well, but since you already covered them...

I have, for whatever reason, a copy of an old invoice from SGI Stockholm dated 12th nov 1999:

• XBOX-DS - Gigachannel expansion cabinet, deskside version: 64.300 SEK
• PCI-SCSIB-Q-DF-1P - Differential Ultra SCSI for Octane: 5.100 SEK
• HU-2P300 - Upgrade to 2x300MHz R12000 for Octane: 105.500 SEK
• CR-2CPU-175/195 - Credit for return of dual R10k-175/195 CPU: -19.200 SEK
• WT5-1P300SE9 - Octane/SE, R12000 300MHz, 256MB, 9GB, monitor: 191.700 SEK
• SC4-AWE-6.5 - IRIX 6.5 Advanced Workstation Enviroment (O2, Octane, Onyx2): 3.400 SEK

These are rated in SEK (Swedish Kronor) so you'd do the conversion from SEK to GBP.
For whatever reason there were no purchase that time, apart from the Diff-SCSI HBA. I think I recall that the department who needed the bits thought it was too expensive...

It would be fun to know the list price on a 16-proc O3800 were at the time...

Holy crap. That's some serious hardware right there!
Was the dual-V12/DCD a lucky score or did you use the big bucks?

I'd say, in this order from noisiest to quietest:

Fuel, Octane, O2

I don't know but I'm on my third Fuel and that PSU fan is killing me. On full blow 3200rpm it's not a pleasant surprise!
(gone through replacing all the fans except PSU on my Fuel)
The Octane noise never bothered me that much and it ain't picky about fan RPMs either, so anything keeping a somewhat reasonable CFM-rating would suffice. On the Fuel you have to keep in mind both RPM and CFM-ratings, so it's a little bit tricky...

The O2 is kind of special. If you're R5k-class it's got only the PSU fan and it's easily replaced with a (much) quieter one. If it's R10k-class its got a CPU-fan too and they can be a little bit trickier to find a version that is quiet, but it's certainly doable.

I'd take it if:

* It's without CPUs. That way I could move one of my quad-700s into the Tezro.
* Shipping would be available to Europe.

Heck, even a dead Tezro would be nice since I could gut one of the O350s mobo/CPU and make it live again...

Hmm... should I gamble again? Last time I won the lottery I got quad-500 C-bricks and quad-700 O350 bricks.
I'm willing to take this, but I see other Nekochanners are thinking the same?

EDIT: Well, I just bid on it just to keep a close eye on the auction, only $100.99 and first lead. If someone is in dying need of this - hell, just bid above that. One thing is for sure; this thing will probably rise to several hundreds by the end of the auction anyway. If someone in here wants it, be my guest.

May I present 'Venom', my newly downsized Origin 350 multi-brick config!
This is what's left at the moment from my rescent aquire and is trimmed down to a more manageable size (=less powerdraw).

recondas wrote: Very nice! Any plans to add graphics?

Well, yes and no. I'm planning on incorporating the famous "V10 hack", but it's on very low priority cause I currently don't need graphics on it, other than for fun. A little FW-card and USB will probably pimp this machine a little further, but nothing planned further than that.
Well, apart from memory that is. (Currently I have some 2GB kits in hopefully a couple of weeks.)

BTW, were you able to use the pin-out information to set up a power supply for your L2 controller? Like you, I have two systems with L2 controllers, and have I've found the L3 software to be very handy as an overall controller/remote monitoring tool for both systems.

Well, actually I haven't had time for it yet. Had some spare time this weekend to fire up this thing, plus diagnosing other bricks, etc. I'll probably measure the pinout next time I'll dedicate time for the O3800 system + power measuring.
So far this hasn't been a problem though, since the L3 software takes care of all my needs so far. Only drawback is that L1-reconfigs (changing rack/slot numbers + associated reboot) crap things up on the little Linux-bugger, so I have to reboot it every time I make such changes.