30 Mar
2015
30 Mar
'15
3:23 p.m.
On 30 March 2015 at 22:30, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/29/2015 05:57 PM, David Williams wrote:
We had 640MB in quite a few R10k I2 boxes at Dreamworks. I seem to
recall issues with the Fore systems ATM drivers beyond that. (Don't
ask about Origin 2000 Fore ATM drivers and SGI 'lying sync' NFS
servers... "For all your data loss needs...")
You should be able to power the machine up without drives or graphics
options. If no keyboard is detected, all console IO is directed to the
first serial port.
... and, we're up and running. No immediate problems, apart from a broken
connector on the sled for the CDROM drive, which is really a non-issue right
now as there's no CDROM drive in the machine anyway (and the disks have a
viable OS).
The High Impact board set has the optional 4MB of texture RAM, so I'll be
looking for a copy of Quake 2 to run on it :-) It's got 384MB of RAM, which
is likely a healthy amount; I think 512MB was the official max on these (and
it sounds like they'd take a bit more with 128MB modules), but it already
gets pretty toasty in there with the graphics options that it has.
Oh, it turns out that it's an ex-Cray system. It looks like it's still got
Cray-related data on there, but whether it's anything
useful/interesting/non-sensitive etc. remains to be seen.