IBM RS/6k

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Wed Feb 6 14:50:52 2002

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:
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> > Over at Purdue Salvage, they have an RS/6000 Model 7013 'space heater'
> > sized system. On the front it says 'Power Server 560(590?)' Any ideas on
> > value, and is anyone interested?
>
> It is aparently a PowerServer 550L, has 64M of ram (filled card), some
> sort of framebuffer card (TI DSP's on it and 3 mini-coax connectors stuck
> in a DE-9 or DA-15 connector shell, like a Sun video connector, but
> without the extra pins), builtin 10Base2 and AUI ethernet, SCSI, 3 hard
> drive, tape drive, floppy drive, and probably other things I'm fogetting
> to mention.

  Hmm. I was thinking that the 550 needed RAM cards in pairs, and I was
right. However, the diagnostics info says the 55L doesn't. Cool. I
may even have spare RAM cards, as well as the SIMMs. I'll look, if you
want. No CD drive? Finding bootable CD drives are a PITA. Plextor is
your friend. ;)
  It sounds like an excellent machine.

> One of the hard drives (which I have yet to determine the size of) was
> completely unhooked from the scsi bus and power, so it's probably either a
> spare or broken..

  Full-height or 1"?

> Any ideas on where to get a bootable tape so I can reset root's password
> (haven't booted it yet, still gotta try that first.)

  Um. You'll need to boot far enough to find what version you're
running, anyway. The version on tape has to be a fair match to get
maintenance mode.

  Sridhar, do you know a way to boot AIX in single-user mode without a
mksysb tape or a BOS CD?

        Doc
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 14:50:52 GMT