18 May
2018
18 May
'18
1:48 p.m.
I gotta ask, what's the deal with the dangling card? That cracked me up!
Thanks for posting some pics!
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Dave Wade via cctalk
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Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 1:46 PM
To: 'Guy Sotomayor Jr'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
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Subject: RE: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
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From: Guy Sotomayor Jr <ggs at shiresoft.com>
Sent: 15 May 2018 21:39
To: Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com>; General Discussion: On-Topic
and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
Well I found an XGA2 card in the pile of bits so now I have 1024x768 display resolution. I
have swapped the CDROM for a SCSI DVD drive.
I managed to boot MTS and there are a few pics here:-
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmc1pkB1
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P390<https://flic.kr/s/aHsmc1pkB1>
flic.kr
Explore this photo album by Dave G4UGM on Flickr!
next job is to tidy up and re-assemble the case..
Dave
On May 15, 2018, at 1:29 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
That?s, in effect, what I did. Whilst there were Microchannel IDE Controllers
I
have never seen one. There are no IDE interfaces on the "Planar" so every
thing must be on the MCA bus.
So I bought a BusLogic BT646 SCSI card on E-Bay.
I also bought an Adaptec
card as a spare. I think I struck lucky with the BT646.
It is a simple SCSI/2 card,
no raid but it does have a BIOS with support for two bootable drives and a
4GB drive option.
OS/2 has drivers for it so it works out of the box. The OS/2 boot disks find
the
drive and install the proper drivers.
To compensate for the slower "narrow"
drives I bought a SCSI2SD card that
puts an SD card on the bus. OS/2 just sees it
as a up two four drives
depending on how I configure it. At present I have two 4gb drives. The card
in it is 32gb so I can add 2 x 12gb drives or 1 x 24gb or some other mix. The CD
ROM sites on the same bus. I haven't tried the tape drive yet..
![https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/981/27325931687_813922732f_h.jpg]<https://…](https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/981/27325931687_813922732f_h.jpg]%3Chttps://flic.kr/s/aHsmc1pkB1%3E){kind=link}
Some time ago I acquired a PCI P/390 card (along with
the various LIC files). I
went down the same path as you to build a P/390 system with OS/2 but I
kept running into problems with OS/2 versions and supported hardware.
I finally gave up and acquired a PCI based RS/6000 that I?ll install AIX on and
have an R/390. ;-) I haven?t had the time yet to make any progress on it.
But it?s good to know that you?ve managed to do this if I decide to go back
and attempt the PC route again.
TTFN - Guy