[rescue] IBM RS/6000 3CT

[Thomas Gallaway (wireless)]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 2:46PM -0800, Mike Johnson wrote:
> I recently came into possession of one of these beasties and can't 
> seem
> to find much in the way of information (maybe I'm just looking in the
> wrong places).  I've found that it's a 67MHz POWER2, and I've found 
> the
> diag codes.  It also seems to be maxed out in memory (but I don't know
> what the maximum is).  It has a sound card, an ATM card, and a video
> card (which is a GXT150M, it would seem).  It also has a 2GB drive.
> When booting, it goes through a bunch of diagnostics on the little
> read-out, and (I guess) makes it into the OS, and the display clears.
>
> My problem is I don't have a monitor for it (it doesn't seem to like 
> Sun
> monitors) and I can't figure out how to get serial console.  Any
> pointers?
>

You ncan get a special 13w3 to vga converter made special for rs6000's. 
Dunno where to get them but I know they exist cause they have a diffrent 
pinout.

> And, to offend any AIX fans out there: any chance it'll run something
> other than AIX?

Linux for ppc might work or netbsd ppc... Haven't tried it jet.

>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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