14 May
2018
14 May
'18
11:29 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Adam Thornton
via cctalk
Sent: 15 May 2018 03:03
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
I Frankensteined a P/390 together out of a P/325 server and the PCI P/390
card back in the day.
I am told the PCI card is rather choosy about which servers it will run in. The system
came with most of a P330 as well, but no case.
I assume you do have the LIC for the P/390 card,
without which you?re dead
in the water.
The latest version of the PC support tools simply load it from the P390 Advanced
Diagnostics Disk.
This was the bit I was worried about but it wasn't a problem at all.
At least the PCI model wasn?t picky about the disks it
used. And I?m pretty
sure it?ll work with whatever the final Warp Server release was (4, maybe?)
by which time the native TCP/IP support was a lot better. It was a nice little
machine for its day, although Hercules is now many times its speed on
modern hardware.
It?s the RAID card that?s the problem, and it seems to have always been temperamental. Did
you use RAID in your P/325?
I used mine to run VM/CMS and Linux (under VM) quite well.
I was thinking of trying Linux. I assume you ran Debian?
Adam
Dave