Subject: Short ramble, DP machines and Dual PS
christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 17:28:05 MDT
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:57:07PM -0400, christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca wrote:
>>!!!! Does this mean that YDL will now boot on the dual processor machines?
>>I have a 450DP and 500DP that are literally just sitting in the box until
>>YDL will boot on them! I've been checking the YDL site for the last couple
>>of weeks waiting for a DP announcement. Please tell me it is so and what I
>>need to do to get them to boot.
>
>Updating to 0.7 of yaboot didn't seem to help me get access to the
>second processor on my computer. If you have any success with getting
>them both working I wouldn't hearing about it. Also could you tell me
>what revision your G4s are? You can find out once you get your computer
>up and running by running `cat /proc/cpuinfo`. From the posts I've
>seen, most people have revision 2.8 or 2.9. I have revision 17.1...
Ok, will do. My G4 server (running YDL and that I'm sending this email
from) is revision 2.8. As soon as I get YDL on the DP machines I'll fill
you in. I'm in the middle of building the search tools for our university
which is to go live the 1st (using htdig which rocks!), so I might not
have a chance until later next week.
Also, one thing I forgot to mention, the G4/450 DP is in the box
alright... dead in the box. It died the second day we had it (the 500 is
ok though, I have now taken it out and I'm warming it up running a Quake
server on it :-), looks like the power supply died on the 450.
This leads me to a question... we are probably going to buy power
supplies for the server machines for our DP G4s (if our Apple rep
approves), as the server machines have dual redundant power supplies. I
was wondering if anyone knew who to contact at Apple regarding getting the
daemon that poles the PS for failure ported over to Linux? I suspect the
code might be sitting in Darwin, but I'm not sure. Any ideas? Anyone here
try sticking dual PSs in non-server machines?
Cheers,
Chris
--Christopher Murtagh Webmaster / Web Communications Group McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada
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