[rescue] RS/6000 board ID

[Julius Sridhar]

On 12 Feb 2002 jwbirdsa at picarefy.com wrote:

>    I just acquired a 7012-390, an older MCA-based RS/6000. It came with
> a 52G4735 memory board filled with 16M SIMMs, a 40H6717 CPU (apparently
> a 67MHz POWER2, with an empty L2 cache slot), a 11H8607 "3-1" 8-port async
> card (sans octopus, sadly), a 32H3975 thingy, a 93H1527 "1-E" graphics
> card (possibly a GTX150, has a 13W3), and a "2-1" 3Com ethernet card (in
> addition to the built-in riser ethernet). It has a floppy, CD-ROM, and a
> tape drive. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the bracket for internal hard
> drives at all, but since I don't need the tape drive I can probably put a
> disk in that bay.

Nice score!  That's not an older MCA machine, that's a newer (quite new)
MCA machine.

>    I also picked up a 87F4774 XGA-2 microchannel card. Please tell me the
> 390 can boot on this card and use a PS/2 mouse and keyboard? I'd love to
> hook this one up to a KVM and run it headful.

Nope.  You need an RS/6000 keyboard, but any PS/2 3-Button Mouse will do.
The XGA-2 has PC microcode, so it definitely will not work.  If you have a
GXT150, you should use that as your video card as it's a whole lot newer
and faster than the XGA.

>    What is the best version of AIX to run on this, and where do I get a
> copy?

AIX?  4.3.3 or 5L.  Get it from IBM, unless you feel like going illegal,
then I wouldn't be the one to ask.

BTW, your Sun Hardware Reference has taught me a lot.  I'm glad to repay
the favor in some small way.

Peace...  Sridhar