Sunday, April 15, 2012

Still kicking!! O2 & Octane & DAT

Still alive!!!
A lot of time without post anything but I am a very busy guy.

First of all here you are my last toy:

A SGI O2 with RM5200 at 300 MHz and 256 MB of RAM. Not bad. I was searching one of this for some years. Running good except for temporary ethernet problems.

Hinv:
O2 2# hinv -mv
CPU: MIPS R5000 Processor Chip Revision: 10.1
FPU: MIPS R5000 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 10.0
1 300 MHZ IP32 Processor
Main memory size: 256 Mbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte on Processor 0
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
FLASH PROM version 4.18
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version ADAPTEC 7880
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version ADAPTEC 7880
On-board serial ports: tty1
On-board serial ports: tty2
On-board EPP/ECP parallel port
CRM graphics installed
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
Iris Audio Processor: version A3 revision 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x9004, device 0x8078) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x9004, device 0x8078) PCI slot 2
Video: MVP unit 0 version 1.4
AV: AV1 Card version 1, Camera not connected.
Vice: TRE

In the other side, I upgraded the Octane 2 with new harddisk and a Sony DAT unit. Now I'm recovering some ols tapes of Video Software.

And related to my projects, I compiled a new ROM for my Cobalt servers but I still having problems loading large bz2 kernels. This new ROM uses one of the latest 2.4 kernels with SATA_VIA driver and detects a cheap SATA VIA PCI card in my RaQ 4. Unfortunately I don't have enough time and the development is going very slow. I expect to power on one RaQ next month to compile an smaller kernel for this ROM and try to load big kernels again.

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