[rescue] What to do with a 630mp?

BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Aug 23 09:46:38 CDT 2001


I pulled the cpu board (501-1894?) out of my 630MP crate, and dropped it
into a 3 slot chassis.  After adding in a cg3 and testbooting the critter,
I have it running OK on OpenBSD-2.9.  Speedwise, it seems to be about
the equivalent of a Sparcstation4, although the video throughput seems
a bit faster.  For fiver buckeroos de realme, in the Friday Friendly
Surplus Feeding Frenzy Diving Pit, it seems to be a usable desktop
web ftp etc., machine, about comparable to this LX.  

For the sake of something to do with it, I was thinking of dropping
the board into a 3/160 12 slot deskside cabinet, and mounting up a set
of 3.5 inch internal drives on a metal VME slide air duct sheet.  The
original 630 cabinet looks like it got dropped and the plastic is all
mucked up.  I figured the old style 12 slot deskside case might work,
and be a bit easier to wheel around.

Are there any known problems in dropping a 630MP cpu into one of the old
VME cases?

Thanks

Bob




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