[Geoman]

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Holder material: heat-resistant, glass fibre filled LCP. Battery contacts: spring stainless steel AISI 301, nickel-plated throughout. Solder area tin-plated throughout, min. thickness 5 µm.

 
Sounds like an excellent choice! 

[cz7asm]

So far the module has been tested with the following machines. All of them were able to initialize the chip themselves:

• SGI Fuel
  
• SGI Tezro
  
• SGI O350
  
• SGI O300
  

I switched to a different battery holder as discussed in this thread. It's much better in terms of battery manipulation.

   

[jwhat]

Hi cz7asm,

I got second lot of 2 x DS1742 replacments and put one into Numalink Router.

This worked when dropping in new un-initialised chip (I simply popped new battery into replacement and dropped it straight into Numalink Router, replacing the existing DS1742W-120).

On startup this took on serial id of the L2 Controller and all I then needed to configure was the "brick rackslot" & "date/tz".

Here is the log:

>> telnet 192.168.XXX.XXX
>> Trying 192.168.XXX.XXX...
>> Connected to XXX.XXXXXX.com.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>>
>> Linux 2.4.7-sgil2 (192.168.XXX.XXX) (ttyp0)
>>
>>
>> SGI L2 Controller
>>
>> INFO: connection established to localhost, to quit enter <ctrl-]> <q>
>> M200XXXX-001-L2>INFO: Validating connection from 'localhost' (127.0.0.1)
>> INFO: Connection - sgi (sgi) @ localhost running 'l2part'.
>>
>> M200XXXX-001-L2>INFO: opened USB device at b1;p2/1;d3 (/dev/sgil1_0)
>> 000?00 INFO: System serial number reassigned (8000) to M200XXXX from attached L2.
>> M200XXXX-001-L2>config
>> L2 192.168.XXX.XXX: - 0001 (LOCAL)
>> L1 192.168.XXX.XXX:0:0 - ---r-- (no rack and slot ID set)
>> M200XXXX-001-L2>192.168.XXX.XXX:0:0 brick rackslot 1 6
>> 000r00:
>> brick rack set to 001 (takes effect on next L1 reboot/power cycle)
>> brick slot set to 06 (takes effect on next L1 reboot/power cycle)
>> M200XXXX-001-L2>192.168.XXX.XXX:0:0 reboot_l1
>> M200XXXX-001-L2>INFO: closed connection to 000r00
>> INFO: opened USB device at b1;p2/1;d4 (/dev/sgil1_1)
>> M200XXXX-001-L2>001r06 serial
>> 001r06:
>> BSN: NDH593 SSN: M200XXXX Time: 02/07/2106 06:28:15 Security: OFF
>> M200XXXX-001-L2>

So happy to report that you can add Numalink Router to SGI Devices that have been tested with replacement DS1742 and this does away with need for complicated Dallas swapping process to get around Numalink Serial Security.

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John.