[rescue] A real rescue

[Mike Meredith]

On Monday 06 May 2002 14:45, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:47:28AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > > quick google shows this model as a 4000/610.
> >
> >   Wow, that's a pretty serious box.  Not even particularly old, if
> > memory serves.

If I remember rightly, the 4[01]00 is the ES40's predecessor so it's
pretty recent.

> what *is* a 4000/610 (or 4600 as i've also seen)?  i'm assuming it's
> not a 4100.  what's it look like?  any web page pointers dave?
> otherwise, PLEASE TAKE PICTURES!!!!  ;)

It'll look the same as a 4100. The main difference between the 4000 and
the 4100 is that the 4100 has a larger system chassis so it can take 4
CPUs whilst the 4000 is limited to 2. The 4000 can unlike the 4100 can
take a PCI bus expansion option increasing the number of PCI slots from
quite useful to ridiculously impressive (i.e. I can't remember).

http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/archive/4100/

If you're that curious I'll take some pics at work tomorrow ... they're
"only" 4000 5/300's, but look the same.

> >   There's no way it's gonna pull that much...Most manufacturers
> > grossly overspec those numbers, and DEC does it even more than
> > most. Count on 2A if it says 5.
>
> i was just gonna say the same thing.  what's the VAX 6000 rated at?
> cause it sure doesn't pull even close to that without RA disks in it.
> ;)

It might pull that much if it's fully populated; that'll be 8Gbytes
memory, 4 CPUs, 8 PCI cards, 32 or so disks.