Thomas Bogendoerfer schrieb:
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:07:19PM +0200, Ullrich Buss wrote:I have bought a few servers of the model Siemens rm 400e.do you know the exact type ? There are at least E60 and E70 models. I even saw some note about an E85 model. Could you post the startup message or at least CPU type and speed ?I have only the Sinix firmware for the servers (it is installed).I am not able to boot from both diskette and cd-rom under the Sinix firmware. I try to use a debian-mips image.there is no debian-mips image, which supports that machine, yet.1. Where to get the NT-firmware of the Siemens rm400e in order to boot linux.while the firmware gives a hint about switching over to NT firmware, I never got a hand on that firmware (well I don't miss it either).2. Which linux image is the best to use for this servers.Linux has still some shortcomings on that machine. Current linux-mips git tree supports only E60 machines in single cpu mode (UP). http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/User:Tsbogend This is my collected state of the port. RM400E70 support is missing, because I don't have such a beast. To get SMP running I'd need either documentation or more time to reverse engineer it. Thomas.
Dear Sirs, the servers have different CPU's: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One has four CPU's of the modell: NEC Japan D30700LRS-250 VR10000 9904E9002ES3.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And the other has 2 CPU's of the modell: NEC Japan VR12000 with 300 Mhz The startup message is: SNI 6.0010 Multi processor system 2 processors ASIC (MAUI) Revision 2 R 12000 SC Revision 2.3 LAR (Logout Auto Recovery) Mode enabled Primary I-Cache size 32768 (0x8000) Primary D-Cache size 32768 (0x8000) Secondary Cache Size 8192 kbytes (0x800000 bytes) This server is complete with the box (scsi data storage box) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------the third I was unable to open. It looks like a big tower and has a scsi storage tower with it. I will looking for the handbook to find a way to open it (without damaging it)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I want to use the server with the data storage box with mysql, apache, ftp and samba for my merchandise planning and control system and for a central data storage. It runs in the moment on an older Siemes scenic workstation.
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