From rjhawkin at nand.net  Thu Dec  2 15:05:02 2004
From: rjhawkin at nand.net (Rowan Hawkins)
Date: Thu Dec  2 15:05:05 2004
Subject: [aix thinkpad] New list subscriber - 
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412021305590.32111-100000@localhost>


Hello Trevor et al,

   Found your very useful page and though I would fire you off 
some other tidbits and questions

   On the harddrive, there is a flash memory company which makes a
2.5"  form factor SCSI interfaced flash drive product, the drive size
is up to 30G but that costs a shiney penny.  I think it was around
$10K US for the bigest one.  After much searching I managed to find
one IBM Original 1.2G drive in the field but the company wanted $800+
for it.  I think the company was in Texas.

   I have had this little beast since '99 and wish I had come across
your site back then.  My system has 4.1.5 loaded on it, but it is
corrupt and I have been unable to locate media to re-install it.  I 
would love to load 4.2.1 on it, the lowest I have seen go by on eBay 
has been 4.3 which isnt going to cut it. - any thoughts on how to 
locate media?

   I received the box fully setup from a leasing company with no
media.  It is a 7249, though which 7249 I am confused about.  The
front says Power Series 850, is that an 850 or an 851?  

96M of RAM
a 1.2G Drive
Ethernet II - have both the 10bt and 10b2 dongles.
IBM Modem PC card - no dongle
AIX 4.1.5 installed but messed up (boots but has an error and if you 
ignore the error it wont shut down [I have been sync; sync; sync; 
power-off].)

The little I have been able to glean from various places on the net 
is located at http://www.nand.net/~rjhawkin/ppc850tp

The only problem I have ever had with IBM's website is conflicting 
information.  They seem to be good at it, or maybe that is because the 
documentation for these systems is scanty at best.

Rowan - Its Better Manually - Hawkins

--
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
                -- M.C. Escher

From trevor at tecnopolis.ca  Thu Dec  2 16:37:37 2004
From: trevor at tecnopolis.ca (Trevor Cordes)
Date: Thu Dec  2 16:37:45 2004
Subject: [aix thinkpad] New list subscriber - 
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412021305590.32111-100000@localhost>
Message-ID: <200412022237.iB2MbbJ9016128@pog.tecnopolis.ca>

On  2 Dec, Rowan Hawkins wrote:
> 
>    On the harddrive, there is a flash memory company which makes a
> 2.5"  form factor SCSI interfaced flash drive product, the drive size
> is up to 30G but that costs a shiney penny.  I think it was around

That's neat... I'll add that to the site.

>    I received the box fully setup from a leasing company with no
> media.  It is a 7249, though which 7249 I am confused about.  The
> front says Power Series 850, is that an 850 or an 851?  

The 7249 is a 851 even though it's labelled as the 850.  They never
labelled the marketable product as 850.

> The little I have been able to glean from various places on the net 
> is located at http://www.nand.net/~rjhawkin/ppc850tp

I hadn't seen that site before... I'll add a link to it on my site.

> The only problem I have ever had with IBM's website is conflicting 
> information.  They seem to be good at it, or maybe that is because the 
> documentation for these systems is scanty at best.

There used to be tons of docs on IBM's sites, but that was back in the
mid/late 90's.  They seem to have moved/decommissioned most of the docs
making it very tough, I agree.

Good luck!

