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Posted by: Maconthemove on 2008-12-13 08:30:17
Wednesday scored a working ANS 700/200. Have not started it up yet. Going to take a vacuum to it first. Very dusty. No software.
Yesterday, I got the 500/132 from the warehouse. They tried to sell it, but gave up. They lost the key, so they nocked out the lock.
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-12-13 20:17:04
So you now have TWO ANS's? :O
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Posted by: Strimkind on 2008-12-13 21:44:53
I think he does. Now can he get them up and running hosting a server is the next question.
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Posted by: Maconthemove on 2008-12-13 22:34:07
Yes, I have two. One boots as far as the AiX start up screen and the other
has not been booted up yet. Going to take a vacuum cleaner to it tomorrow.
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Posted by: Leografix on 2008-12-13 23:57:14
Congratulations! The more I´m dealing with that box the more I like it - although it´s the far most complicated machine I ever had to deal with. In the meantime I managed to get nearly all software for it, just the Apple distribution fixes and the RAID card software are still missing.
While the configuration of AIX itself is quite easy its very difficult to connect it to a network: there is just one Apple PCI NIC that can handle 100 MBps, all the others drop that box to 10 MBps. Besides this I´ve tested more than 30 other PCI cards leaving just two that will work together with that server.
Now I´m trying to put some drives into the back of the server due to lack of interface cards for the drive trays in the front. Guess what: this will be another conquest! Apple not only used rather unusual 68 VHDCI SCSI connectors but also a power connector which is non standard at all.
This explains why other ANS owners used SCI PCI cards and tried to get the power supply cables from somewhere else in that box...
These details once again show very clearly that the ANS is very close to an IBM RS/6000, closer than to a PM 8500.
J
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Posted by: macman142 on 2008-12-14 22:18:12
Bah!!! Please sell me a PSU :-*
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Posted by: Leografix on 2008-12-14 23:11:08
Bah!!! Please sell me a PSU :-* Could need a second one myself...
J
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Posted by: macman142 on 2008-12-14 23:31:07
Could need a second one myself...
J A second one? Just ONE would be nice here :lol:
BTW: Great conquest to the original poster!
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Posted by: Maconthemove on 2008-12-15 02:16:45
Started up the 700/200 without monitor, keyboard, or mouse. the LCD says
202mb's of ram.
It has 2x 18gb Seagate Baracuda hds. ST318275LW
2x 4gb Apple/Seagate Baracuda hd's ST15150H
1x Sony Tape Drive STD-9000
1x 8x Apple cd-rom
1x Floppy drive
2x PSU
1x PCI NIC
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Posted by: Maconthemove on 2008-12-16 00:08:17
The 500/132 has 32mb ram, a psu, floppy, cdrom, tape drive and a two gig hd.
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Posted by: Leografix on 2008-12-16 01:01:41
1x PCI NIC Oh, that´s very interesting for me, could You please tell me what kind of card it is? Manufacturer? Modell?
J
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