OLD RS/6000 - Anybody want it?
Dear Debian Guru's,
I saw Gerhard's posting below and remembered a large case in the back of my closet...
A while back I purchased on ebay an IBM RS/6000 machine (for the drives/ram...plus it went for
$1 +$30 shipping, so why not?-).
It's an old PPC601 model...C10, I believe. It's been a while since I looked at it.
Someone told me it's a "microchannel" machine...I confess ignorance.
I scrounged the 50 Pin SCSI drives, all 4 work fine in my OldWorld PPC machines so it was
worth the $31 bucks.
If anyone wants to pay shipping, or lives in the Metro NY/Long Island area and wants to pick
it up/meet they can have it. I hate to throw stuff away and don't know where else to send it
so it won't end up in a landfill.
If you just want parts and not the case (as they are heavy) I can pull it apart or take some
pics of it and send them to you. I have no idea what to do with the thing.
I might still have some old SUN stations (before SPARK...68030) I can take some pics and send
that as well. Everything , included the Powers supplies, are integrated into the case or
motherboard...but if anyone wants them they can have them for shipping also.
Anyone know of any computer swap shop lists or something like that?
Sincerely,
Christopher Marcoe
Online Learning Program Specialist
Nassau County BOCES
cmarcoe@mail.nasboces.org
Phone: 516-608-6665
Fax: 516-396-2040
Gerhard Kroder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> finally i'm trying to get woody on my 43P-133, using current boot disk
> set (as of May 16). Though avaliable docs do not really explain/mention
> to use boot.bin before rescue.bin i got this starting;-). But during
> boot
> up from boot.bin floppy the system hangs in scsi timeouts, just short
> after "Now booting kernel". Error message looks like this (hand copied,
> so not quite exact):
>
> >SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out -resting
> >SCI bus is beeing reset for host 0 channel 0
> >ncr53c8xx_reset: pid 0 reset reset flags=2 serial_numbers=456 serial_number_at_timeout=456
>
> with serial number counting continuously up and scrolling over the
> screen. During this, LED from CD-Rom is blinking.
>
> i changed origial disk scsi-id from 6 to 0 and also set floppy,disk and
> cdrom (id 3) as boot device in sms, in that order, but same problem.
>
> What's the problem here? Any hints?
>
> --
> MfG
>
> Gehard Kroder
>
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