[ccp4bb] In need of SGI computer genius
Hello all, OK - small school - old NMR (really old). We set this up around 14 years ago with an O2 system as the user interface, with an indigo system as the interface between the O2 and the NMR. This is a JEOL system, has really been a workhorse with little issues over the last 14 years. We are obviously at the end here. We are working on getting a new one - but that's a work in progress. Anyway - today the hard drive failed on the indigo system. The simple issue is this - we access the indigo strictly via telnet. I do have a backup (I believe) on tape of the indigo. What is the best way to proceed here? There is no monitor on the indigo (nor is there a keyboard). I don't even have a monitor for it (no graphics card - and I don't have an old terminal). Thanks Dave
Re: [ccp4bb] In need of SGI computer genius
Does this help? http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/Headless Not sure, how you'd set it to output to the serial port with the commands if you can't see what you're doing in the first place though. Otherwise you'll have to look for a graphics card that'll work in an indigo, a ps/2 keyboard mouse, and a sync on green monitor. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:14 PM, David Roberts drobe...@depauw.edu wrote: Hello all, OK - small school - old NMR (really old). We set this up around 14 years ago with an O2 system as the user interface, with an indigo system as the interface between the O2 and the NMR. This is a JEOL system, has really been a workhorse with little issues over the last 14 years. We are obviously at the end here. We are working on getting a new one - but that's a work in progress. Anyway - today the hard drive failed on the indigo system. The simple issue is this - we access the indigo strictly via telnet. I do have a backup (I believe) on tape of the indigo. What is the best way to proceed here? There is no monitor on the indigo (nor is there a keyboard). I don't even have a monitor for it (no graphics card - and I don't have an old terminal). Thanks Dave
Re: [ccp4bb] In need of SGI computer genius
On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:14 , David Roberts drobe...@depauw.edu wrote: Hello all, OK - small school - old NMR (really old). We set this up around 14 years ago with an O2 system as the user interface, with an indigo system as the interface between the O2 and the NMR. This is a JEOL system, has really been a workhorse with little issues over the last 14 years. We are obviously at the end here. We are working on getting a new one - but that's a work in progress. Anyway - today the hard drive failed on the indigo system. The simple issue is this - we access the indigo strictly via telnet. I do have a backup (I believe) on tape of the indigo. What is the best way to proceed here? There is no monitor on the indigo (nor is there a keyboard). I don't even have a monitor for it (no graphics card - and I don't have an old terminal). I'd suggest first restoring the tape backup onto another machine on the network. Then, you could access the console on the Indigo via a serial cable [from Sabuj's post--many more recent machines appear to lack a serial port, but you can get RS232 = USB adaptors for cheap that work well enough], and configure the Indigo to netboot off the restored tape backup. // Johan Postdoctoral Fellow @ Physical Biosciences Division ___ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * 1 Cyclotron Rd. Mail Stop 64R0121 * Berkeley, CA 94720-8118 * +1 (510) 495-8055
