> On May 14, 2018, at 11:29 PM, Dave Wade <dave.g4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Adam Thornton >> via cctalk >> Sent: 15 May 2018 03:03 >> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org >> Subject: RE: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390 >> >> I Frankensteined a P/390 together out of a P/325 server and the PCI P/390 >> card back in the day. >> > > I am told the PCI card is rather choosy about which servers it will run in. > The system came with most of a P330 as well, but no case.
It is pretty picky. It did not run in a whitebox PC I had at the time, but the PC Server 325 was close enough to its expected host that it was happy. I would guess that any of the IBM x86 server machines from the right general era would work. That machine now lives at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, although I do not know if they have it available for use. > > > It’s the RAID card that’s the problem, and it seems to have always been > temperamental. Did you use RAID in your P/325? I don’t think I did. Have you tried just putting a different (OS/2-supported) disk controller in and just not doing RAID? > >> >> I used mine to run VM/CMS and Linux (under VM) quite well. >> > > I was thinking of trying Linux. I assume you ran Debian? Indeed I did, although also SLES. I assume you found my NASPA article on Debian on 390 from 2004? Adam
