Hi everyone,
So this post is obviously in the off-topic area.
Previously, I was on the nekochan forum, under the "anotherlin" username. But I guess probably nobody remembers me
Yesterday, I got back my O2 R5k from the basement, it spent 10 years there, if not more. I don't remember exactly.
It was so dusty that I spent almost the afternoon cleaning it.
It had some memory check issue but by removing all but the 2 mandatory slots, it fired up just fine.
In the meantime, I forgot the root password :( But hopefully, I always use the same password for my "regular" account.
It's a beautiful machine.
I was hopeful to still have an older (10 years) Samsung LCD with VGA connector (and DVI).
Nowadays, VGA is completely gone, DVI is almost gone for HDMI or even mini-HDMI.
I miss my 19 inch Sony CRT, it's like people listening to vinyl and not CD or even worse MP3.
Some Quake or Doom with O2 on a 19 CRT would have been a blast!
Moving from SSD to high-rev SCSI is schocking, that's so loud!
The small 250W PSU has a 3000RPM fan but I think most of the noise is from the SCSI.
10 years ago, SATA was starting/finishing to replace IDE.
Most of them were 7000rpm, so not that noisy. But we still had the noise of the heads moving.
Having switched to SSD, there is a noticeable difference.
Also, that 10k SCSI is used and probably well beat up.
My first steps will be to find out what happened to the memories.
I had 64MB using 2 slots, I have 6 more DIMMs to check.
Second step is to find a more recent SCSI drive, at least one that's not so noisy.
At some point, I had some recent SAS 15k Cheetah's and they were rather quite.
As I've lost the root password, I have to re-install IRIX anyway.
By the way, there was some guy on Nekochan who made a virtual machine disk (named Tina?) for network install of IRIX.
Where is it now? Can't find it. Used it very successfully for my O2.
Also, any source for a NOS or recent SCSI drive?
The UW160 or UW320 are backward compatible, and Cheetah 15k.5 are plenty to find. But I need to find a non-beatup one, so it's not loud.
Surprisingly, there are no SATA or SAS to SCSI adapter.
Best regards,
Best regards,
