[rescue] FREE: IBM 9111-285 POWER5+ in Raleigh, NC

[Cory Smelosky]

On 12 May 2013, at 19:12, "Stephen Conley" <cheetah at tanabi.org> wrote:

>
> Your friend has emailed me and wants the machine.  So ... let's
> consider it officially spoken for unless he decides he doesn't want it
> all the sudden.  Really shocked at how fast I was able to move this --
> thanks a lot, Cory.

Happy to help AND get a friend an interesting machine!

>
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
>> On 12 May 2013, at 18:54, "Stephen Conley" <cheetah at tanabi.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hey guys;
>>>
>>> I have an IBM 9111-285 POWER5+ located in Raleigh, NC.  It is,
>>> unfortunately, not in a bootable state -- I think the power supply is
>>> bad, though I have very little to go on and it's a difficult machine
>>> to diagnose.
>>>
>>> Stats:
>>>
>>> * 4 GB RAM
>>>
>>> * Power5+ Processor -- not sure what speed but I think it was 2.1GHz
>>>
>>> * HARDWARE RAID CARD -- this is in all caps because these machines
>>> don't usually have 'em and it's something of a rare find :)  Note that
>>> IBM's hardware raid is a big finnicky piece of crap and the drives you
>>> put in the raid MUST MATCH EXACTLY.  Same block count, same cyl and
>>> sectors, same everything.  It's really annoying.  Takes SCA SCSI
>>> drives, up to 8 of them.
>>>
>>> * EXTRA BACKPLANE CARD -- another rare find.  Usually this machine has
>>> only 1 backplane for the disks, which means 4 disk capacity.  This
>>> machine is set up for all 8 dis.
>>>
>>> * ALL DRIVE CADDIES -- these were AMAZINGLY hard to find, this machine
>>> has all 8 "drive caddies" or SPUD-equivalents.
>>>
>>> * Video card
>>>
>>> * DVD ROM (or is it a CD ROM?  It's whatver is stock with the machine)
>>>
>>> * AIX installation media -- I have it somewhere, I'll have to dig it
>>> out, but I think I have AIX 6 for it.
>>>
>>> I have some disks, but not enough matching ones to fill the RAID.  I
>>> think I have 6 matching?  I don't remember, I'll gather them up if
>>> someone's interested.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is all absolutely free -- I am moving and have no desire to deal
>>> with this machine anymore.  It was kind of a money pit for me.  I
>>> found all those rare (and expensive) parts, put it all together, and
>>> then the power supply died on me due to a brown out.  The machine
>>> wasn't on a UPS yet because I was still configuring it.  Now I just
>>> don't want to deal with it anymore -- it's been in pieces in my office
>>> for about a year now, and I don't want to move this heavy monster to
>>> my next location.
>>>
>>> THE CAVEAT: I'm not willing to ship it.  This thing is HEAVY, dear God
>>> is it heavy.  I'm also unwilling to drive it very far ... really
>>> prefer someone come pick it up.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please email me if interested.
>>
>> I know someone really close to there that's interested.  I'll pass your
email
>> address along.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Steve
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