| Hostname: | joxer |
| Model: | Personal Workstation 433a |
| CPU: | Alpha 21164A, 433Mhz |
| RAM: | 256 Mb (2x128 Mb) |
| IO system: | 2 IDE channel Asus SC875 Single channel UltraWide SCSI Controller |
| Storage: | 4.3gb UW SCSI, Quantum Atlas II (offline) 2x9gb UW SCSI, IBM 18LZX (10krpm) Toshiba XM5702B CDrom drive |
| Graphics: | Sapphire Radeon 7000 PCI with 64Mb RAM |
| Console: | 102-key DK keyboard 3 button logitech wheelmouse 20" Sony GDM20E21 monitor, SGI Granite finish |
| Sound: | Builtin ES1888 audio, mic in, line out and midi connector |
| Network: | Digital 21143, 10/100mbit, RJ45 connector |
| Case: | Digital grey minitower enclosure |
| OS (current): | AlphaCore Fedora Core devel |
| OS options |
OpenVMS Digital Unix/Tru64 NetBSD FreeBSD Linux Windows NT 4.0 |
| Wanted: | 600Mhz CPU 2x128 or 2x256 MB RAM Digital Unix/Tru64 OpenVMS for Alpha |
I have the machine hooked up to my KVM switch.
I just took the machine apart to clean it and lo and behold it already has a 2MB cache module :)
I've ditched the DAC960P-2 controller that the machine came with as the
performance was abysmal with FreeBSD.
FreeBSD was the only OS I had that was willing to use
this controller with it's currently ancient v2.21 firmware.
Instead I've used an Asus SC875 based
on a Symbios 53c875 chip. This controller is bootable by the SRM console
I've also taken out the Powerstorm 4D40T GFX board that was installed as only Digital Unix has an X server that will run on it. Instead I've used an old Diamond Stealth 64 from a PC. This card is based on the S3 Vision968 chip and has 2Mb VRAM. It works well with the SRM console once I put it in a 64bit PCI slot and is being recognized as some Digital gfx card.
I've added 256 MB RAM. I used 2x128 MB generic Kingston ValueRAM, part. no. KVR100X72C2/128. It's PC100 SDRAM, ECC and CL2.
I exchanged the 4gb Atlas II for 2xIBM 18LZX (9gb, 10krpm), they're about as noisy as the Atlas II but quite a bit faster :)
The 2x32Mb that came with the machine seems to have kicked the bucket so currently I'm down to 256Mb RAM :(
I've exchanged the old Diamond Stealth 64 gfx card for a Sapphire Radeon 7000 PCI with 64Mb RAM.
The SRM didn't have any problems running the BIOS and it works great with XFree-4.3.0-42 from Redhat.
I highly recommend this card for Miata users who run Linux and need decent gfx.