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Subject: RE: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
Folks,
Well in case any one has the slightest bit of interest, I have now plugged
the RAID card back in and after replacing on of the drive carriers I can get
five of the six drives to spin up. Its now copying stuff to my Bu
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> I used Clonezilla to make an image of my PCI machien with a P/390E card to a
> USB drive - but in your case that would, of course, require it to recognize
> your RAID array (which it just might, if the BIOS recognizes it).
Whilst enough of the disk has to be visible to the BIOS to all
e Wade
> Sent: 18 May 2018 22:31
> To: 'Benjamin Huntsman' ; 'General
> Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
> Subject: RE: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
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> I thought I had captioned that picture. It's the original RAID controller
>
On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 at 09:40, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
> Just to say I now have a bootable copy of the OS on SD card.
Well done!
> I got caught out because OS2 wildcarding works like UNIX wild carding, not
> MSDOS wild carding.
> So in order to back up the "C" drive you need "XCOPY C:\* ..
> > Either way, COOL!!!
> >
> > It sounds like you're doing some good computer archaeology /
> preservation.
> >
Just to say I now have a bootable copy of the OS on SD card. I got caught out
because OS2 wildcarding works like UNIX wild carding, not MSDOS wild carding.
So in order to back up the "
On 05/26/2018 03:31 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
The Hercules emulator on a modern (Core i3 or Core I5) PC is much faster
than the P390.
Ya. But there's still something to be said about older IBM servers. ;-)
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via
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> Sent: 26 May 2018 21:40
> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
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> On 05/26/2018 02:15 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
> > Well in case an
On 05/26/2018 02:15 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
Well in case any one has the slightest bit of interest, I have now plugged
the RAID card back in and after replacing on of the drive carriers I
can get five of the six drives to spin up. Its now copying stuff to my
Buffalo NAS but as its 10Mbi
e RAID array, and perhaps copy the disks that are installed.
Dave
From: Benjamin Huntsman mailto:bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu> >
Sent: 18 May 2018 21:49
To: Dave Wade mailto:dave.g4...@gmail.com> >; General
Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts mailto:cctalk@classiccmp
disks that are installed.
Dave
From: Benjamin Huntsman
Sent: 18 May 2018 21:49
To: Dave Wade ; General Discussion: On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
I gotta ask, what's the deal with the dangling card? That cracked me up!
Thanks f
-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
> -Original Message-
> From: Guy Sotomayor Jr
> Sent: 15 May 2018 21:39
> To: Dave Wade ; General Discussion: On-Topic
> and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Guy Sotomayor Jr
> Sent: 15 May 2018 21:39
> To: Dave Wade ; General Discussion: On-Topic
> and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
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> > On May 15, 2018, at 1:29 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk
On 05/15/2018 02:38 PM, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote:
I finally gave up and acquired a PCI based RS/6000 that I’ll install
AIX on and have an R/390. :-) I haven’t had the time yet to make any
progress on it.
Props for the R/390. I've not heard mention of them in quite a while.
--
Gr
> On May 14, 2018, at 11:29 PM, Dave Wade wrote:
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>> -Original Message-
>> From: cctalk 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
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> On May 15, 2018, at 1:29 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk
> wrote:
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> That’s, in effect, what I did. Whilst there were Microchannel IDE Controllers
> I have never seen one. There are no IDE interfaces on the "Planar" so every
> thing must be on the MCA bus.
> So I bought a BusLogic BT646 SCSI
> -Original Message-
> From: Adam Thornton
> Sent: 15 May 2018 16:35
> To: Dave Wade ; cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
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>
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> > On May 14, 2018, at 11:29 PM, Dave Wade
> wrote:
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> >
> >> -
> -Original Message-
> From: Benjamin Huntsman
> Sent: 15 May 2018 00:32
> To: Dave Wade ; General Discussion: On-Topic
> and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390 - now running
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> I seem to recall having to install some vram chips on my
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk 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
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> I Frankensteined a P/390 together out of a P/325 server and the PCI P/390
> car
On Tue, 15 May 2018 at 06:19, Adam Thornton via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> And I’m pretty sure it’ll work with whatever the final Warp Server
release was (4, maybe?) by which time the native TCP/IP support was a lot
better.
Warp Server 4.5, I believe. Specifically 4.52 with various
I Frankensteined a P/390 together out of a P/325 server and the PCI P/390 card
back in the day.
I assume you do have the LIC for the P/390 card, without which you’re dead in
the water.
At least the PCI model wasn’t picky about the disks it used. And I’m pretty
sure it’ll work with whatever th
I seem to recall having to install some vram chips on my P/390 to get 1024x768
resolution, but I think that was on my PC Server 330...
I’m glad you got it working! That is awesome! Did you get networking
functional?
Have fun!
-Ben
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 14, 2018, at 4:16 PM, Dave Wad
Folks,
Just to say I did end up doing a re-install of OS/2 on a smaller drive, which
took most of today, but the P390 software is now installed and I have loaded
VM/CMS and IPL'd a simple 3-pack system copied from Hercules. The readme that
comes with the P/390 V2.5 software explains how to set
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via
> cctalk
> Sent: 13 May 2018 00:59
> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
>
> On 05/12/2018 05:07 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
> > I was so unsure of w
On 05/12/2018 05:07 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
I was so unsure of what I was doing that I haven't blogged, twittered,
or even Facebooked
And here I went and asked you to air dirty laundry. — I'm sorry.
But I am grateful that you did so. :-) I did find it an interesting
read, and
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via
> cctalk
> Sent: 12 May 2018 19:39
> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
>
> On 05/12/2018 05:32 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
> > I am rebuilding a Mi
On 05/12/2018 05:32 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
I am rebuilding a Microchannel server with a P/390 card.
Will you be chronicling this process anywhere? I'd like to observe from
a distance. Blog / Twitter / other?
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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Subject: Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390
Folks,
I am rebuilding a Microchannel server with a P/390 card. It must have come
with a licence for OS/2 Communications Manager as its required to get the
P390 working but despite having several boxes of CDs and Floppy Disks I
can't find a c
Folks,
I am rebuilding a Microchannel server with a P/390 card. It must have come
with a licence for OS/2 Communications Manager as its required to get the
P390 working but despite having several boxes of CDs and Floppy Disks I
can't find a copy of this software anywhere. If anyone has a copy o
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