R: For you SGI fans...

[Mazzini Alessandro]

Sadly yes, there's a known issue with psu in fuels. I have one that went
kaboom after 20 minutes and lies waiting for a psu since months (and will
lie that way, I guess. I'm looking at it in a sad way near daily...).

Long story short, Fuel psu were made by 3 different brands, and each of them
had ... longevity issues... in what we could say being revision 1 to 3.
>From 4 upward (and if I'm mistaken , at worst was from 3 upward) they tend
to be resistant.

Exploding issues aside, those psu are not standard and have a chip doing
some mumbo jumbo inside (all lines are monitored, by example). That chip can
.. erase itself... ( in the upper mentioned revisions, for sure ). There are
no known dumps of the chip firmware.

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Per conto di ethan at 757.org
Inviato: venerdì 15 gennaio 2016 19:11
A: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Cc: General at classiccmp.org; Discussion at classiccmp.org
Oggetto: Re: For you SGI fans...

> Hello Jay,
> Regarding the simulated SCSI disk, hoping you can explain further.
> The last time I had an IRIX based workstation on my desk was in 2007, 
> and all this SGI discussion has me wanting to go and hunt down a Fuel.
> Curious how the simulated disk thing works.
> Thank you,
> Jerry

My coworker has a Fuel sitting on his desk here, I'm staring at it. There is
some sort of failure with mobo or power supply. He has a spare motherboard
for it, but I think he said it's PSU. Prob caps, is there a known issue with
them?

Also, I used nfs to get to ISO data of IRIX 6.5.2x updates for my Octane and
it worked fine. Flashbacks to my days as a sysad @ NASA in IRIX land, and as
a huge SGI fanboy...

https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image02.jpg
96proc, 64GB, 7TB, 2.something million dollars

https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image15.jpg
o2k, my favorite...

https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image20.jpg
Petabytes in the background, in 2001 or so.




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Ethan O'Toole