photos:Bringing the Predator back to life
The Predator rack comes alive!
Finally hooked up some drives to the Predator rack. Because the shoebox that normally contains the system drive was missing, the primary scsi chain is unusable. So I hooked everything up to the secondary channel of the IO3 and with some help was able to install a fres IRIX 5.3 on the monster.
4 33 MHZ IP7 Processors FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.0 CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0 On-board serial ports: 2 per CPU board Data cache size: 64 Kbytes Instruction cache size: 64 Kbytes Secondary data cache size: 256 Kbytes Main memory size: 64 Mbytes I/O board, slot F: IO3 VGX Graphics option installed Xylogics 7800 16-drive IPI disk controller 0: Firmware version 2.2.4 Integral Ethernet: et0, IO3 FDDIXPress controller: ipg0, version 1 Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93A, revision 9 CDROM: unit 3 on SCSI controller 1 Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 1 Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 1 Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93A, revision 9 VME bus: adapter 0
Graphics
Graphics board 0 is "VGX" graphics.
Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024
10 spans, IMP3
EV mask = 0x0
1 screen(s) on this pipe
VO1 present
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Date: 2006:11:19 16:55:53
Date: 2006:11:19 18:59:56
showing "Ant, the movie", almost as hypnotizing as the CPU meter...Date: 2006:11:19 19:02:23
Date: 2006:11:19 19:04:07
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for the VideoLabDate: 2007:01:22 23:35:06
of the Breakout Box (BOB)Date: 2007:01:22 23:34:36