I'm gonna write a great fantasy novel, just like Eddings, Brooks, and Goodkind...

[jsbowden]

Oh wait, they write shit.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~imcfadyen/notthenet/fantasy.htm

And that's how they do it.

I got a new toy today:

(EDIT: It's done, so here's the full spec instead of the truncated PROM monitor output)

# hinv
4 800 MHZ IP35 Processors
CPU: MIPS R16000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.2
FPU: MIPS R16010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.2
Main memory size: 4096 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 2: Version IDE (ATA/ATAPI) IOC4
CDROM: unit 0 on SCSI controller 2
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty3
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty4
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty5
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty6
Integral Gigabit Ethernet: tg0, module 001c01, PCI bus 1 slot 4
IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1

I love me some roboinst. Building a new box is editing a couple files and running a command from the PROM/L1 Monitor.

Comments

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

(a) Tell the story in incredible detail. Describe every day of the journey, how far they walked, what they ate, the weather, where they slept, especially days where nothing happens.

(b) Fill every dramatic situation with lengthy introspection. At every moment of crisis the hero must minutely examine his feelings, perceptions, identity, whether he left the gas on etc.

Heh. Jordan's got that part down to a science.

[carpone.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahaha that how-to is amazingly on target.

Integral SCSI controller 2: Version IDE (ATA/ATAPI) IOC4

IDE-based SCSI? Isn't that an oxymoron?

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's the same way Solaris handles IDE...it pretends it's a SCSI controller. The only thing on it is the DVD-ROM drive, so I don't much care.

12160

[mattrix.livejournal.com]

HI ...

Found you via google. I added QL12160 cards to my Octanes. I have LVD drives. Do I need a special terminator to get them to run LVD? Are there settings for the 12160 to get it to run in LVD?

Re: 12160

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Wow...looking through old entries I found your comment...you must've left it at some point when LJ wasn't sending comment notifications, so sorry for never answering, but just in case: you need LVD terminators on an LVD chain (the drives however will work SE or LVD without worry depending on the controller...LVD is cool like that).

Re: 12160

[mattrix.livejournal.com]

I could never make heads or tails out of the various flavors of terminators. Active, passive, active negation, etc.

I think what was messing me up was I have Kingston (now Storcase) removable 'sleds', which somehow lock the thing down to SE mode.

Thanks for the response, at long last! :)