JJG wrote:
>
> Chad,
>
> Yes, Mine was a Unix Version. It won't be much longer. Outside of cp and ls
> I know very little of Unix. I would like to try to install LINUX on it and
> learn. I have serious doubts that I will be able to install Linux on it
> without much agony.
I have tried several times to install Caldera Linux on mine. It never
finds my scsi adapters and hangs. I was able to install SCO Openserver
5.05, However. I havn't had the time to play with it, Though.
> If you know of people who have been successful on
> this box please tell me. Quite frankly, After many hours of trying to find
> info on the box, I was almost ready to cut it up and try to put another MB
> in it. That nice 400 something watt power supply is too good to waste.
Yes those power supplies are nice. I have an extra one too. I bought a
second computer, a PCI4338, but it wasn't ruined in shipping. It was
okay, with me, However. It isn't half the computer that my MPE is. It
looked almost identical on the outside, but the inside looked like a
generic AT style el-cheapo motherboard and components. I salvaged the
power supply, the fan, a few of the cards, and cables.
> I also tried to access the Fugitsu M2694esa SCSI 1gig hard drive on a
> different computer.
I have two of those drives, but one is only a 640meg. I am not sure why
the second is only 640, as they seem to have identical markings on them.
> When I hooked it up to a Pentium box with an Adaptec
> 2940au and a Seagate 4 gig, the Adaptec reported something about the 2
> formatting types were incompatible and data might be corrupt. I then hooked
> the drive to the 2940 without the Seagate attached and it was recognized
> with "no operating system found". I tried to low level format it with
> utility in the 2940 bios. I had no luck there either. The 2940 would
> report "no host adapter found" after a few seconds of attempted low level
> format. Would you (or anyone) know about this?
I can guess that maybe the drives are formatted with a different block
size, but I think that would be kind of strange for a PC based server.
Unless maybe yours isn't quite as much PC based. I know IBM AS400
(definetly not a PC) use a different block size.
> Is this because it was
> originally some special UNIX drive? I am thinking that the drive is just
> plain toast at this point. The server itself was a throw away that I felt I
> could put back into use. I don't know it's history.
Are you famliar with SCSI already, or are you just learning? Are you
familar with termination, scsi ID, termination power, etc?
> Anyway look for pictures offline shortly and any help is appreciated.
Judging fromthe 2 pictures our computers are very similar.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
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