15 May
2018
15 May
'18
8:35 a.m.
On May 14, 2018, at 11:29 PM, Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm
at gmail.com> wrote:
It is pretty picky. It did not run in a whitebox PC I had at the time, but the PC Server
325 was close enough to its expected host that it was happy. I would guess that any of
the IBM x86 server machines from the right general era would work.
That machine now lives at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, although I do not know if
they have it available for use.
-----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.
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 don?t think I did. Have you tried just putting a different (OS/2-supported) disk
controller in and just not doing RAID?
I used mine to run VM/CMS and Linux (under VM) quite well.
I was thinking of trying Linux. I assume you ran Debian?