Hi,
> The nice people at Sydney University have given me a MIPS Magnum 4000SC-50
> machine to help with the Linux/MIPS port. The trouble is, I have no doco,
> and the machine has:
>
> No RAM
> No Graphics Card
> No Keyboard
> No Floppy
> No HD
>
> Now, the lack of floppy and HD is no problem as I have some of those, and
> I'm assuming that the machine has been used as a server (i.e. without KB
> or Vid,), so that they pose no problem either (it was running RISC/OS).
Hmmm. You'll need to get a video board as well as the mouse/audio board
to run the box in little endian (WinNT) mode. I have a spare video board,
but no audio/mouse board. Without the audio/mouse board the ARC bootloader
fails during the selftest.
> What RAM to use? Standard 72pin SIMMs? What sizes are
> o.k? Which SIMM sockets do I populate first? Do I need
> to put them in 1 or n at a time?
It wants 4 (four) at a time, from the right to the left (viewn from
the front of the box). You need standard PS2 Simms with parity with
at least 2 Megs (512k * 36) each.
>
> ...and stops at '1'. I'm assuming it wants RAM before it
> can go any further.
Probably yes ;-)
Hope this helps,
Andy
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