Minifridge

Fri Aug 27 17:45:00 UTC 2010

Well, it's $50... So I'd enjoy being fairly sure before I grabbed it.

  Yeah, reboots are a pain on this one... Every couple times I reboot I have to pull all the disks, and hit ctrl-c at exactly the right time to get SRM again. And set console graphics again.  This is getting really annoying. I wish I knew why it kept doing that. 

 I did kludge together an MMJ cable for my VT  (it's really ugly, electrical tape, nails, boards, fence wire, and a phone cable I nabbed off a house being demolished. PC164  stops on 19.  Couldn't find a debug code ref online, and HP is useless as usual.

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From:  Michael Kronsteiner <alphamike at gmx.at>
Subj:  Re: Minifridge
Date:  Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:33
Size:  2K
To:  Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 10:09 -0600, heviarti at puresimplicity.net wrote:
> Well, I came up with some install media, and am trying to get an OS on it. Unfortunately it just sits there at 'jumping to bootstrap code'
> 

old alphas are... old. give them some resets, halts and new b(oot) blah
commands... they usually revive

>   I haven't yet figured out what machine this is, but it's running SRM 5.7-80.  For the first time I saw a pci device list, the video shows as being an S3 Virge.  If I intend on booting anything other than linux, will that work? I've got a stack of cards hanging around.  The FireGL isn't for this box, it's for pred.  If need be I can reiterate the list. I also picked up three more cards yesterday rooting in the local shop's junk. I got some kind of a Mach64, a Sierra Screamin' 3D (never seen one like it before), and  a Matrox Marvel_2 (which is a gigantic card with a bunch of stuff on it including an MPEG decoder)
> 

S3Virge is a good choice if my mind still works. Somehow i even think
those were shipped with the old alpha boxes.

>  Any suggestions as to which would be the  best choice for the one that will give the best performance with the widest OS compatibility?  I'm wondering if I'm not booting off the install media and losing video support right away...
> 

Its already inside (see comments about mind)

>  I also located a 'Parhelia' video card which is a 64 bit PCI card. Is it worth my bothering with?  It's either that or an Adaptec 39320. I already have a 64 bit PCI nic.  I really need to write a periodic table of 64 bit cards.  There's  a glut of 64 bit fiberchannel cards right as well, but never having personally dealt with fiberchannel scsi, I don't know if it's worth fooling with. Words of wisdom?
> 

Parhelia and alpha reminds me of something.... but i dont know what.
might have been headache, might have been good. try?

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