Power PC????

From: George Currie <g_at_kurico.com>
Date: Tue May 11 11:50:38 1999

> >Yes NT4.0 does support the PPC. Can't remember if NT5 is
> >supposed to. I vaguely remember that it was, but my memories
> >been slipping lately ...
> >
> >I have a Motorola PPC (604/100) machine designed specifically to
> >run NT, it's a CHRP/PREP/WATEVR machine that was supposed
> >to, eventually, be able to run either NT or MacOS. It's in quite a sad
> >state right now (I'm not even sure exactly where it is right now).
> >
> >I also have another PPC machine (again 604/100) made by a
> >company called FirePower that was formed by a bunch of old NeXT
> >guys (the ones that were working on the multiprocessor 88100
> >NeXT box :( ) and eventually bought by Motorola. I currently have it
> >running NT4.0 and SQLServer 6.5, both native. Cool little box, uses
> >OpenFirmware (as does the other Mot).
>
> That sounds like it might be what we have. It's in a Motorola box.
> What is OpenFirmware? I've never heard of it. They are 604/100s.

OpenFirmware was supposed to be an "open BIOS" that any
machine that conformed to PREP/CHRP standard was supposed
to use that was supposed to facilitate being able to run different
types of os's on different hardware. It is based on Forth.

> >
> >Perhaps the DataServer machine is such a CHRP/PREP beastie?
> >
> >You can run the disk administrator application (in the administrative
> >tools folder) to find out about the drives.
>
> I didn't see an administrative tools folder.

Ooops, you said NT 3.51, sorry I was thinking NT4. Gonna hafta
think hard now as I haven't touched 3.51 in a couple of years.
There still is a disk administrator app, but I can't remember off the
top of my head exactly where it is but there should be some type
of admin folder. Oh, also make sure you're logged in as the
administrator or with a user that has admin privilages.

Then again you could always run chkdsk on each (logical) drive to
get a sense for what you have. Just taking a peek inside the case
would also work. As well, you could go to the openfirmware
prompt and query the scsi bus and it'll tell you what it has (please
don't ask how to do this, I've totally forgotten, I hope my FirePower
never goes down :( )

George
Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 11:50:38 BST