Another Silicon Graphics Origin 300, but this time with L1 Problems…
Picked up another Silicon Graphics Origin 300 (Dual 600/4gb ram), swapped in my Quad 500 board, replaced the fans and began my fun filled adventure into L1 Land.
My 2nd Silicon Graphics Origin 300
Original Silicon Graphics Origin 300 Fans out...
Quad R14k 500 Swap completed
Silicon Graphics Origin 300 1GB DDR Stick
Off the bat I was presented with:
Silicon Graphics Origin 300 L1 - Unknown Brick Type!
Upon hooking up my USB->Null Modem cable I checked the L1 Log:
001?01-L1>log
04/14/12 10:54:46 L1 booting 1.44.0
04/14/12 10:54:49 ** fixing invalid SSN value
04/14/12 10:54:49 ** fixing BSN mismatch
04/14/12 11:13:53 L1 booting 1.44.0
So, good it auto-fixed the invalid SSN and BSN mismatch.
001?01-L1>brick
rack: 001, slot: 01, partition: none, type: Unknown [2MB flash], serial:MRH006, source: NVRAM
Good again, it sees the brick, but doesn't know what it is.
Then tried:
001?01-L1>brick type C
brick type changed (nvram) (takes effect on next L1 reboot/power cycle)
001?01-L1>reboot_l1
Upon rebooting the L1, still not avail. Going to have to get creative with this problem...
More Silicon Graphics Origin 300 Swap Pictures
SGI Origin 300 Quad 500mhz R14000
SGI Origin 300 Quad 500mhz R14000
SGI Origin 300 Quad 500mhz R14000
MySQL Tip on non-Windows installs
Having been years since I messed with MySQL on a non-Windows platform I had forgotten 2 simple commands after setup on my Origin 300:
CREATE USER 'dbuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'sqlisawesome';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEDGES ON *.* TO 'dbuser'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
The wildcard (%) after the username is key if you want access from other machines (which in my case I wanted to the MySQL Workbench on my Windows 7 machine).
Radeon 9250 in an SGI Origin 300?
An idea came up over at Nekochan a few weeks ago to try and see if an RV280 (Radeon 9250) was capable of being installed into an Origin 300. As it stands currently, the Origin 300 does not have a graphics option, so you're limited to VNC to run X on it.
It just so happens I have a Radeon 9250 that's been sitting around since last summer when I was going to try and hack it into a Cobalt Qube 3:
256mb Radeon 9250 PCI
Installed it into my Origin 300, and immediately did a hinv -vm when it booted:
Location: /hw/module/001c16/node
IP45_4CPU Board: barcode MJP842 part 030-1728-002 rev -D
Location: /hw/module/001c16/Ibrick/xtalk/14
IO8 Board: barcode MJX813 part 030-1673-003 rev -F
Location: /hw/module/001c16/Ibrick/xtalk/15
IO8 Board: barcode MJX813 part 030-1673-003 rev -F
4 500 MHZ IP35 Processors
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 1.4
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 1.4
CPU 0 at Module 001c16/Slot 0/Slice A: 500 Mhz MIPS R14000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 1.4. Scache: Size 2 MB Speed 250 Mhz Tap 0xa
CPU 1 at Module 001c16/Slot 0/Slice B: 500 Mhz MIPS R14000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 1.4. Scache: Size 2 MB Speed 250 Mhz Tap 0xa
CPU 2 at Module 001c16/Slot 0/Slice C: 500 Mhz MIPS R14000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 1.4. Scache: Size 2 MB Speed 250 Mhz Tap 0xa
CPU 3 at Module 001c16/Slot 0/Slice D: 500 Mhz MIPS R14000 Processor Chip (enabled)
Processor revision: 1.4. Scache: Size 2 MB Speed 250 Mhz Tap 0xa
Main memory size: 2048 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Memory at Module 001c16/Slot 0: 2048 MB (enabled)
Bank 0 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
Bank 1 contains 1024 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty3
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty4
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 001c16, pci 4
<strong>PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1002, device 0x5960) PCI slot 1</strong>
<strong>PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1002, device 0x5940) PCI slot 1</strong>
<strong>PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1216) PCI slot 1</strong>
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 4
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x11c1, device 0x5802) PCI slot 5
IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1
HUB in Module 001c16/Slot 0: Revision 2 Speed 200.00 Mhz (enabled)
IP35prom in Module 001c16/Slot n0: Revision 6.210
USB controller: type OHCI
It picked it up as noted by the bolded PCI entries, but nothing more than that. It was suggested to do an inst -m GFXBOARD=VOYAGER, but I couldn't get my O2 running as a BOOTP server. Maybe another day...
IRIX Root Drive Cloning a success!
A picture says a thousand words:
IRIX-6.5.30-running
Now to actually get MySQL, PHP etc on it like I wanted to last summer 
IRIX on my Origin 300, well sort of…
Spent virtually every evening this week working on my Origin 300 I got last summer and finally got to this point:
IRIX 6.5.30 Launching
Called it a night at around 12:30 this morning after getting BASH, Samba, SSH, TightVNC on it, figuring I would wake up and get it running pretty quickly.
And I did to some extent:
IRIX 6.5.30 over VNC
Not exactly exciting to see, but an improvement over a console/ssh/telnet session.
After some more configuring, started to get when running 4Dwm (IRIX's Windowing Manager, think of it like GNOME or KDE)
Media Error: Unrecovered data block read errors
Googling the error (and just intuition), the hard drive I spent all week prepping, installing and getting frustrated on is on it's way out.
Luckily I remembered from years back upgrading a drive in my origin Silicon Graphics Octane you can pretty easily clone a root drive. Pulled up this link over at the SGI Depot. Followed the steps, tons of errors followed when copying. Crossing my fingers upon pulling out the original installation drive...