[rescue] The Practical Guide to FDDI

[Andrew Weiss]

Hey well... I just lost my only other FDDI capable machine... and the 
machine that I was planning to begin the FDDI segment with... RIP 
Crimson....

I was working on my HP D250 and had just gotten things going nicely... 
installed the ANSI-C compiler, built bash... was working on building 
openssl and was playing around with XonX by running an XDMCP broadcast 
query... when POP! (well more of a click like a large monitor changing 
resolutions) and the sounds in the next room were vastly different.  
Turns out the Crimson's reset/circuit breaker switch had popped out... 
ok so I turned the back switch off and the front one... pressed in the 
reset, and powered everything on... machine runs for about 5 seconds 
and then the switch pops back out.  Tried pulling everything from the 
chassis ... same problem...so  I think the P/S is dead somehow... fans 
still run.

So now I have two dead Power series SGI boxen... a dead Power Series 
VGX R4400-150 which is in a Crimson chassis with the covers 
switched...i.e. it used to be the Crimson... and a dead Crimson VGXT 
r44K150.... GAH... and I loved this big red brick...

So far googling has turned up nothing that helps...

Andrew

On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 04:37  PM, Michael Schiller wrote:

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> Well, I guess I loose geek points as just yesterday I switched back
> from FDDI to fast ethernet! The reason? Simple, noise. At this point I
> only had 2 machines connected via FDDI (a U1 & U30) and the lanplex
> 2500 I was using to connect them to the rest of my network (a Mac, pc,
> and wireless AP) was just way too loud! I replaced the 2500 with a
> cheap linksys 8 port consumer grade switch and my house has gotten
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