It’s Alive!!
Well, I finally got Gold, my “borrowed” E4500 running last night. 14 CPUS and 4.5GB of RAM. It has two dodgy memory banks which it has disabled, but that still leaves it with 4.3GB.
Here’s some of the output it churns out as it turns on…
{0} ok boot /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@9,0
Boot device: /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@9,0 File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.8
boot:
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Uncompressing image...
Loaded kernel version 2.4.27
Loading initial ramdisk (3391488 bytes at 0xC00000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
\ Remapping the kernel... done. Booting Linux... Starting CPU 1... OK Starting CPU 4... OK Starting CPU 5... OK Starting CPU 6... OK Starting CPU 7... OK Starting CPU 8... OK Starting CPU 9... OK Starting CPU 10... OK Starting CPU 11... OK Starting CPU 12... OK Starting CPU 13... OK Starting CPU 14... OK Starting CPU 15... OK PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.28 2000/12/20 12:24 Linux version 2.4.27-1-sparc64-smp (joshk@fortissimo.triplehelix.org) (gcc vers4ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 08:00:20:93:5b:a3 On node 0 totalpages: 587863 zone(0): 589445 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Found CPU 0 (node=f0070074,mid=0) Found CPU 1 (node=f0070434,mid=1) Found CPU 2 (node=f0150054,mid=4) Found CPU 3 (node=f0150414,mid=5) Found CPU 4 (node=f01c0050,mid=6) Found CPU 5 (node=f01c0410,mid=7) Found CPU 6 (node=f0230050,mid=8) Found CPU 7 (node=f0230410,mid=9) Found CPU 8 (node=f02a0050,mid=10) Found CPU 9 (node=f02a0410,mid=11) Found CPU 10 (node=f0310054,mid=12) Found CPU 11 (node=f0310414,mid=13) Found CPU 12 (node=f0380050,mid=14) Found CPU 13 (node=f0380410,mid=15) Found 14 CPU prom device tree node(s). CENTRAL: Detected 8 slot Enterprise system. cfreg[a8] cver[7c] FHC(board 1): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] (CENTRAL) FHC(board 0): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] (JTAG Master) FHC(board 2): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] FHC(board 3): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] FHC(board 4): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] FHC(board 5): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] FHC(board 6): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] FHC(board 7): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] FHC(board 1): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Memory: 4647480k available (2008k kernel code, 304k data, 168k init) [fffff8000]Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Entering UltraSMPenguin Mode... Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Calibrating delay loop... 671.74 BogoMIPS Total of 14 processors activated (9404.41 BogoMIPS). CPU 1: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -9 cycles,maxerr 676 cycles)CPU 4: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -14 cycles,maxerr 692 cycle)CPU 5: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -13 cycles,maxerr 692 cycle)CPU 6: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -13 cycles,maxerr 692 cycle)CPU 7: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -12 cycles,maxerr 692 cycle)CPU 8: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -10 cycles,maxerr 690 cycle)CPU 9: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -13 cycles,maxerr 692 cycle)CPU 10: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -13 cycles,maxerr 692 cycl)CPU 11: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -12 cycles,maxerr 692 cycl)CPU 12: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -14 cycles,maxerr 692 cycl)CPU 13: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -13 cycles,maxerr 692 cycl)CPU 14: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -14 cycles,maxerr 692 cycl)CPU 15: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff -13 cycles,maxerr 692 cycl)Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0xfff2) All processors have done init_idle PCI: Probing for controllers. SYSIO: UPA portID 2, at 000001c400000000 sbus0: Clock 25.0 MHz dma0: HME DVMA gate array SYSIO: UPA portID 3, at 000001c600000000 sbus1: Clock 25.0 MHz dma1: HME DVMA gate array Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.68.2.2 Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 tty00 at 0xf8902004 (irq = 12,b9) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xf8902000 (irq = 12,b9) is a Zilog8530 tty02 at 0xf8904004 (irq = 12,b9) is a Zilog8530 tty03 at 0xf8904000 (irq = 12,b9) is a Zilog8530 keyboard: not present Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured rtc_init: no PC rtc found RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 65536 buckets, 1024Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 3312 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done. Freeing initrd memory: 3312k freed VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem). Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 ll 188-tools:Un 0implem.ented SP1.ARC sy7stem ca4 Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 esp0: IRQ 7,8b SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCYC=25000 CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) esp1: IRQ 7,db SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCYC=25000 CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) ESP: Total of 2 ESP hosts found, 2 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP366-HME scsi1 : Sparc ESP366-HME Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L610 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: XM6201TASUN32XCD Rev: 1103 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336605LSUN36G Rev: 0238 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAJ3364M SUN36G Rev: 0503 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAJ3364M SUN36G Rev: 0503 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336605LSUN36G Rev: 0238 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAJ3364M SUN36G Rev: 0503 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAJ3364M SUN36G Rev: 0503 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 9, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 10, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 11, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi1, channel 0, id 12, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sde at scsi1, channel 0, id 13, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdf at scsi1, channel 0, id 14, lun 0 esp1: target 9 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II] SCSI device sda: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB) Partition check: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target9/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 esp1: target 10 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II] SCSI device sdb: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target10/lun0: p1 esp1: target 11 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II] SCSI device sdc: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target11/lun0: p1 esp1: target 12 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II] SCSI device sdd: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target12/lun0:Dev sd(8,48) Sun disklabel: Csum bad, labeld unknown partition table esp1: target 13 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II] SCSI device sde: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target13/lun0: p1 esp1: target 14 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II] SCSI device sdf: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target14/lun0: p1 Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. INIT: version 2.86 booting
December 9th, 2004 at 1:53 pm
What is this page of letters
What is this page of letters and numbers?
Mr. Beresford, I stumbled on this site while searching for Upperthong in google. It’s third top.
How’s tricks?
December 9th, 2004 at 2:13 pm
letters and numbers
Is that Mr David Criland??? Where are you now? You were in London for a while right? I’m still in London… well kind of.
…letters and numbers? Why, it’s the output from his E4500 of course. To continue with the interesting letters and numbers, this is the output from my Dell Intel Celeron (2.6Ghz 522228Kb RAM) if I type a message while wearing ski gloves:
December 9th, 2004 at 3:05 pm
E4500
Now then, what’s a E4500, and what’s a Dell intel celery?
I’m still in London, and have just bought a place in Surbiton. Still Northern though. It’s funny how the majority of locals down here have never travelled further North than Watford. They get vertigo if they venture too far.
I guess from some of these BLog’s that you’re in Switzerland? Are you doing much snowboarding over there?
December 10th, 2004 at 11:22 am
Beast
That is a beast of a computer but what are you using it for?
December 13th, 2004 at 10:39 am
Surbiton snowboarding
Surbiton? I went to pub there once. Down in Surrey right? D’you go out in centre much? I’m still living in Archway (Islington N19)
…although at the moment I’ve been sent out to work in Baden Switzlerland, which has lasted over a year already. I got a full season of snowboarding last winter, mainly popping over to Flumserberg near Zurich. And I’ve been a couple of times these past few weeks (although the big snow didn’t come yet).
December 13th, 2004 at 12:32 pm
Suburbs
I go out in the centre every now and again. We’ve been there a few times recently for christmas shopping and christmas drinks. Have you been to the Cock at Oxford circus? Great pub.
Tend to stay local though, Kingston has everything you need really.
Off to see Morrissey at Earls court on Saturday which should be a laugh.. not a big fan but Hannah is fanatical about him.
What’s Archway like to live in? North london is supposed to be the place to be I’m constantly being told.
December 13th, 2004 at 8:14 pm
Err, yeah… good question. A
Err, yeah… good question. At the moment pretty much all it does is OSPF, VPN, BIND and NIS.
Well, it would do NIS, but that makes it fall over for some reason.
10 points per correctly identified acronym.
December 14th, 2004 at 12:29 am
20 points.
Hrrm… I get 20 points. I’m obviously not much of a network expert.
I guess you must be running this thing at work. Are you going to try to make it do real work, or is it too flaky for that?
December 14th, 2004 at 8:39 am
Nope, it’s at my house.
It
Nope, it’s at my house.
It’s really quite flaky at the moment. It’s fallen over today for example so I’ll have to go and beat it back into life on my way home tonight.
Which ones did you get? I’m guessing VPN and err, NIS.
December 14th, 2004 at 1:55 pm
Expensive toys
I got VPN and BIND. I thought I knew NIS, but it turns out I was thinking of NFS.
Being at your house, you might struggle to find anything to occupy such a mean computer, unless you have it running SETI or something.
Could you use it as a workstation?
December 16th, 2004 at 11:25 am
NIS is Network Information Sy
NIS is Network Information System (formerly YP - Yellow Pages, but BT had a trademark on that name and asked Sun to stop)
It *could* be used as my workstation, although it’s graphics capabilities aren’t great. In fact currently it’s graphic capabilities are zero, you can’t even attach a monitor to it… but I do have a framebuffer. Still, it would be shit graphically. Besides, running UNIX/Linux on it means I can run application on it and have them display on any machine I want thanks to the wonders fo the X Windowing System