The current VME system is a
MVME2700 from Motorola and an
I/O translation module 761 (
see documentations). This system is based on PPC (266 MHz) and 128 MB and supports
SCSI hard-drive.
Compagny
PPCBug
A few commands to check the VME status:
- he : help
- env : the command allows you to view and congigure all PPCBug operational parameter (for instance to boot on hard disk)
- time : set time to the vme (it has to be set to install linux)
- ioi : the command inquiries for all the possible attached device (see also iot, iop)
- niot: the command allows to set-up a new network configuration on the debugger : IP address, Network Mask, Gateway, Protocol (TFPT, BOOTP), filename...
- nbo : the command loads an operating system or control program from the server into memory and gives control to it (execution)
February 2007
- Installation of : internal cable, SCSI-2 hard-drive (1.2GB - Quantum Fireball), external connector, and a termination with SCSI-1 connector (Centronics - 50 pin)
- Installation of Debian Sarge for PReP support
August 2007
- Installation of an external hard-drive (80 MB - ) with a SCSI 2 card (PCI Mezanine Card - ), but it is not bootable.
- Even though it should in principle work SCSI-2/3 connector (68 pin), no hard-drive can be recognized by linux driver ()
- Fake clone of the internal hard-drive (1.2GB - Quantum Fireball) to a another SCSI-2 Hard-drive(9GB - Seagate) with SCSI-1 connector.
February 2008
- Attempt to flash the PPC firwmare in order to boot with the SCSI-2/3 from the PCI Mezzanine Card. No success ....
- Real clone of the internal hard-drive (1.2GB - Quantum Fireball) to another (9GB - IBM) with SCSI-1 connector
- Hard copy of the hard-drive
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
- Convert home partition from ext3 to ext2
- Use of Knoppix to extend the home partition with GParted
- Convert home partition from ext2 to ext3
April 2008
- Realization of clone hard-drives
