15 May
2018
15 May
'18
1:29 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Thornton <athornton at gmail.com>
Sent: 15 May 2018 16:35
To: Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com>; cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
system came with most of a P330 as well, but no case.
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.
OK I got a PCI P390 card in the bundle of spares but have nothing PCI server style to run
it in.
Where I worked we binned loads of X330's which might have been usable...
On May 14, 2018, at 11:29 PM, Dave Wade
<dave.g4ugm at gmail.com>
wrote:
-----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
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? Adam