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xiri
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.
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Wrote on the subject of Octane Parts: RAM / Dual600 R14000 / Shoebox at Jan. 28, 2013, 6:37 a.m...

PM sent.

xiri
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.
and authored 5 notes

Wrote on the subject of Operating System Options for Altix/Prism Systems at Aug. 30, 2013, 1:35 p.m...

Is it possible to plug a graphics adapter in one of the PCI-slots of a base module or a CMPX module and run X11? Although 10 years ago AGP was the dominating connector for graphics adapters there were still some PCI-cards on the market. The question is if ia-64 drivers for Linux were provided then.

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of SGI Octane parts at Feb. 22, 2014, 6 a.m...

In which area of our planet are you located ?
Please update your profile...

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of IRIX patches at Feb. 10, 2015, 4:48 a.m...

by porter:
Nekochan has hosted patches that SGI had previously made available then removed, I'm thinking specifically of a roll-up for 32bit 6.5.22m with XFS fix.

Do we still have these patches available for download ?

Cheers, Xiri

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Graphics in Prism and Altix at March 3, 2015, 1:57 p.m...

Hi,

has anybody tested the ATI FireMV 2200 PCI on either Altix350 or Prism ?

Btw, there is actually a great offer to upgrade the Itanium2-cpu available on either Ebay or directly on their web-shop (2,49€ + shipping).
I do recommend the webshop (english/german) as it calculates the shipping cost correctly, Ebay does not.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Intel-ITANIUM-2- ... 231486ebaa

https://www.servershop24.de/komponenten ... /a-103229/

If I remember correctly, the 1.6ghz 9mb L3-Madison was the fastest cpu for the Altix350 as the following release Montecito, which brought virtualization support to the IA-64, was not supported anymore.

xiri
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Wrote on the subject of Graphics in Prism and Altix at March 14, 2015, 7:06 a.m...

As you can see here, the A450 was even delivered with the ATI FireMV 2200, but there might be stepping-stones in either A350 EFI and/or firmware of the ATI-card.

https://www.suse.com/yes/90275.htm

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Altix 3700 lost the EFI ... solved at March 14, 2015, 2:48 p.m...

Hi smj,

Guess you had enough time to test meanwhile...are there any good reasons to go for SLES 11 SP1 + Sgi foundation 2 SP1 + ProPack 7 for Altix owners ?

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Issues setting up L2 emulator from the L3 package at March 24, 2015, 1:57 a.m...

Hi,
I can confirm that it works well under CentOS 5.11 using VMware Workstation or VMware player.

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Issues setting up L2 emulator from the L3 package at March 25, 2015, 2:21 p.m...

Right smj,

my post was kind of misleading. I am running vmware workstation on debian jessie as host with Centos5.11 running on one of the vm's inside.
I was using it with a usb-to-console cable in order to resolve a serial number problem. I'm pretty sure that I had to compile the driver before,
but then it worked instantly.

xiri
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Wrote on the subject of Prism drives me crazy at July 5, 2015, 9:50 p.m...

Hi,
if you download and extract this yourepo.tar.gz file you will find a lot of PROM-versions located under htdocs\SGI-ProPack\4\rpm\ia64\.
Some of them as v4.33 and v4.43 I've seen before, however after v4.x the version numbers jump to v10.x .
All v10.x files contain A350/Prism PROM and a separate A450/A4700 PROM and the latest seems to be v10.54.
Did anyone try and flash this one ?

xiri
From Norway
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Wrote on the subject of Prism drives me crazy at July 5, 2015, 11:16 p.m...

Ok,
just compared the size of PROM v5.04 and v10.54 and it is exactly the same.

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Email from SGI Support at Oct. 5, 2015, 5:21 a.m...

I received exactly the same email with exactly the same content.
When I clicked on the link this morning, the site was under maintenance.

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Altix 450 at Oct. 14, 2015, 3:49 a.m...

Seems like this monster including rack and 4 IRU's located in Florida was not even tempting for 200 bucks...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SGI-Altix-450-6 ... 7675.l2557

xiri
From Norway
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Wrote on the subject of Altix 450 at Oct. 15, 2015, 3:30 a.m...

xiri wrote:
Seems like this monster including rack and 4 IRU's located in Florida was not even tempting for 200 bucks...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SGI-Altix-450-6 ... 7675.l2557

GL1zdA wrote:
No graphics, no fun

AFAIK the A450 was delivered with the ATI Fire MV 2200 and supports PCI-E. So it's fully possible to get a decent PCI-E based gfx-adapter that comes with linux IA-64 drivers.

xiri
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Wrote on the subject of Origin 350, 4 x 1 Ghz, 4 GB RAM at Oct. 29, 2015, 12:42 p.m...

Hi,
just picked up this Origin 350 that once ran at SGI. It is in great condition and, surprise,
even comes with a 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter. It is the 3rd rackserver from top of the stack.

hinv -vm

Location: /hw/module/001c04/node
IP59_4CPU Board: barcode NSJ339 part 030-1989-003 rev -B
Location: /hw/module/001c04/IXbrick/xtalk/15
2U_INT_53 Board: barcode NTX732 part 030-1809-006 rev -B
Location: /hw/module/001c04/IXbrick/xtalk/15/pci-x/0/1/ioc4
IO9 Board: barcode NWD099 part 030-1771-005 rev -B
4 1.0 GHZ IP35 Processors
CPU: MIPS R16000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
FPU: MIPS R16010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.0
CPU 0 at Module 001c04/Slot 0/Slice A: 1.0 Ghz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.0. Scache: Size 16 MB Speed 333 Mhz Tap 0x15
CPU 1 at Module 001c04/Slot 0/Slice B: 1.0 Ghz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.0. Scache: Size 16 MB Speed 333 Mhz Tap 0x15
CPU 2 at Module 001c04/Slot 0/Slice C: 1.0 Ghz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.0. Scache: Size 16 MB Speed 333 Mhz Tap 0x15
CPU 3 at Module 001c04/Slot 0/Slice D: 1.0 Ghz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 3.0. Scache: Size 16 MB Speed 333 Mhz Tap 0x15
Main memory size: 4096 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 16 Mbytes
Memory at Module 001c04/Slot 0: 4096 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 1 contains 512 MB (Standard) 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 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
Integral Gigabit Ethernet: tg0, module 001c04, PCI bus 1 slot 4
10 Gigabit Ethernet: xg1, module 001c04, 100 MHz PCIX bus 2 slot 1
Gigabit Ethernet: tg1, module 001c04, PCI bus 2 slot 2 port 0
Gigabit Ethernet: tg2, module 001c04, PCI bus 2 slot 2 port 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x100a) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1216) PCI slot 3
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1645) PCI slot 4
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x17d5, device 0x5831) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1648) PCI slot 2
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1648) PCI slot 2
IOC4 firmware revision 83
IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1
HUB in Module 001c04/Slot 0: Revision 2 Speed 200.00 Mhz (enabled)
IP35prom in Module 001c04/Slot n0: Revision 6.210

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Origin 350, 4 x 1 Ghz, 4 GB RAM at Oct. 30, 2015, 2:25 a.m...

Right,

I just took a fast photo from the backside of the O350 with my mobile phone, looking in the IP35 hardware aggregator I cannot
see any 10 GE card in the list.

: 10 GE NIC (IP35)

xiri
From Norway
Who joined Dec. 12, 2012, 2:40 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of hamei 's departure at Dec. 4, 2015, 12:39 p.m...

What a bad idea to leave now...since Dex is back, I see that the Dev-corner got more support and new optimism to manage and
port later versions of open source software and Hamei has often been a contributor of software suggestions worth being ported
to Irix.
Now if finally the "porting FAQ" everybody is waiting for will be published (maybe 2 versions for both popular compilers), I can imagine
more members are willing to either try and port or contribute to porting projects.
I'm sure that he is reasonable enough to overcome a quarrel with another forum member (isn't there a friend/foe option in the profile ??)
since he is estimated for his contributions by many others and finally, his furious monologues regarding corporate america,
capitalism in general and former SGI management in particular are still unmatched in this forum.