Sadly yes, there's a known issue with psu in fuels. I have one that went kaboom after 20 minutes and lies waiting for a psu since months (and will lie that way, I guess. I'm looking at it in a sad way near daily...).
Long story short, Fuel psu were made by 3 different brands, and each of them had ... longevity issues... in what we could say being revision 1 to 3. >From 4 upward (and if I'm mistaken , at worst was from 3 upward) they tend to be resistant. Exploding issues aside, those psu are not standard and have a chip doing some mumbo jumbo inside (all lines are monitored, by example). That chip can .. erase itself... ( in the upper mentioned revisions, for sure ). There are no known dumps of the chip firmware. -----Messaggio originale----- Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Per conto di et...@757.org Inviato: venerdì 15 gennaio 2016 19:11 A: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Cc: gene...@classiccmp.org; discuss...@classiccmp.org Oggetto: Re: For you SGI fans... > Hello Jay, > Regarding the simulated SCSI disk, hoping you can explain further. > The last time I had an IRIX based workstation on my desk was in 2007, > and all this SGI discussion has me wanting to go and hunt down a Fuel. > Curious how the simulated disk thing works. > Thank you, > Jerry My coworker has a Fuel sitting on his desk here, I'm staring at it. There is some sort of failure with mobo or power supply. He has a spare motherboard for it, but I think he said it's PSU. Prob caps, is there a known issue with them? Also, I used nfs to get to ISO data of IRIX 6.5.2x updates for my Octane and it worked fine. Flashbacks to my days as a sysad @ NASA in IRIX land, and as a huge SGI fanboy... https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image02.jpg 96proc, 64GB, 7TB, 2.something million dollars https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image15.jpg o2k, my favorite... https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image20.jpg Petabytes in the background, in 2001 or so. -- Ethan O'Toole
