On Tuesday 19 July 2005 10:18, Heinz Wolter wrote: This machine looks more like a G2 (R2/R3) box... It's definitely not a G5/6 (G5 coupling facilities are 9672 boxes), or G3/4 since I've seen all of those. Coupling facility means that the software on the laptop prevents you theory, it's possible to upgrade a coupling facility to a normal machine, but you might need IBM to help you with that. I'm currently trying to do that with my new G5, and it's being a pain in the ass about it. :) By the way, those aren't fiberchannel interfaces, those are coupling facility links, don't expect to hook fiberchannel up to that machine. In any case, G2's aren't officially supported by Linux, though they do work (with emulated IEEE floating point), just kinda slowly. Pat -- Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org