[tech] introducing... melanopus

Davyd Madeley davyd at madeley.id.au
Sat Jul 2 16:20:26 WST 2005


The first of UCC's kindly donated Alphas is now running Debian Sarge.
This is the big workstation, which contains two 750MHz EV6s.

Specifications of this machine are:-
 - 2x 750MHz 8MB cache Alpha EV6 processors
 - 1.5GB of RAM
 - 18GB Seagate SCSI HDD
 - Voodoo3 graphics
 - Soundblaster AWE64
 - some form of fibre channel (not played with at all)

The thing has enough SCSI headers, slots and available power to drive a
whole lotta disks. It also has a heap of free PCI slots. Everything in
it seems to be working except the USB (the usb-ohci driver decodes it's
interrupt as 255). It doesn't run Linux 2.6 for some reason.

It's IP is currently 130.95.13.121 if you want to check it out. It has
LDAP logins enabled, but does not mount any home directories.

It does have working X11.

Since it is actually fairly grunty, I'm tempted to put it in the current
place of the non-operational Ultra30.

We would like to thank Fugro FSI for their kind donation of these
machines.

--d

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