On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:30, civileme wrote: > Sounds like a beastly server or multiprocessing machine or a super node > for a supercomputing cluster. > > I found two Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 series at a local > Charity store which had been picked by thieves, and on the day of the > month when everything was 50% off I bought both. One had a dead mobo > and was missing the CD and had 128M RAM. The other had a dead power > supply and was missing the SCSI HDD and had 32Mb of RAM. Between them I > picked up working Matrox Mystique 220 and an old ELSA 3D PCI card. One > processor was loose in one case anfd the working Mobo had the processor > 1 ZIF zocket lever missing. > > I found two PPro 200 512K cache matched step processors and put them in, > jammong the faulty ZIF socket shut, put together one working machine > with an IDE, a SCSI-3 drive and a DVD (turned out the CD was a DVD) > drive, dropped in Mandrake 8.2 installed and did not even get asked if I > wanted the UP or SMP kernel. I added a UP boot later so I can run on > one processor in case my technique of closing the damage ZIF socket > proves faulty, but it came up with SMP kernel from the install and was > happily running both processors. My RAID was a software RAID0 between > the SCSI-3 and an IDE drive, just to see if I could stress the comp and > its filesystems.
Ye Gods, Civ ! Raid0 between IDE and SCSI....are you not committing some sort of sacrilege ?! It sounds like the purest heresy! > Everything is still working and the speed is better than my K6-2 350. > > Hmph! It was disappointingly easy. > > Civileme I'm glad to see that someone else besides me likes messing around with the old K62 processors. I have one of those famous FIC VA-503+ mainboards here, and I just got some k62-550's in so I could populate some older socket 7's and see where they will go. One of the 550 cpus is going on the VA-503+; can't wait to see how that turns out. :) LX -- 같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ 같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같� _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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