[rescue] What to do with a 630mp?

[Dave McGuire]

On August 23, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> I pulled the cpu board (501-1894?) out of my 630MP crate, and dropped it
> into a 3 slot chassis.  After adding in a cg3 and testbooting the critter,
> I have it running OK on OpenBSD-2.9.  Speedwise, it seems to be about
> the equivalent of a Sparcstation4, although the video throughput seems
> a bit faster.  For fiver buckeroos de realme, in the Friday Friendly
> Surplus Feeding Frenzy Diving Pit, it seems to be a usable desktop
> web ftp etc., machine, about comparable to this LX.  

  ...and if you put beefier CPUs in it, it's even better. :)  Five
bucks is a steal.

> For the sake of something to do with it, I was thinking of dropping
> the board into a 3/160 12 slot deskside cabinet, and mounting up a set
> of 3.5 inch internal drives on a metal VME slide air duct sheet.  The
> original 630 cabinet looks like it got dropped and the plastic is all
> mucked up.  I figured the old style 12 slot deskside case might work,
> and be a bit easier to wheel around.
> 
> Are there any known problems in dropping a 630MP cpu into one of the old
> VME cases?

  VME [mostly] being VME, that should work just fine.  I can't say
I've run a 4/600 in one of those chassis, but I've run all the other
4's in them.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD