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Early Vid: IBM p5 CPU Swap and LPAR Setup

🕑 Added 2024-08-22 00:10:58 +0000 UTC

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Cedric Roijakkers

If you ever get bored of AIX (and I can't blame you if you do), you should be able to run Windows NT for PowerPC on that RS/6000. There's been quite some fuss lately about Windows NT for PowerPC now also running on PowerPC Macs, but this is an official PowerPC system, so that should also work. I found a guide online: https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/08/30/windows-nt-on-ibm-rs-6000/ There might be some shenanigans with the video card, but if you get that sorted out, you should be good to go. Windows NT on PowerPC should be able to run 16-bit x86 applications via emulation natively. But I've seen a Michael MJD video where he found a tool by Motorola named Softwindows32 for PowerPC that can even emulate 32-bits x86 applications, so you might even be able to run something relatively modern on there. Might be a good idea for a video?

John Bailey

Kioxia makes solid state SCSI drives, but they are SUPER rare and nearly impossible to get hands on.

clabretro

ah interesting!

Ethan Hawke

When you get a chance, you could try Sun's LDOMs, very similar to LPARs, but you will need a T series server

clabretro

I really hope something like blueSCSI shows up for these types of drives. My guess is it's difficult to support SCSI-3 speeds or something. I do have a blueSCSI that I eventually want to hack into one of these with adapters just to see if it works haha

clabretro

That's what I was thinking as I was going through this haha. I have a fibre channel disk shelf from the same era that I'll try it out on in future videos!

John Bailey

If you create a storage pool you don't need to assign individual storage controllers to the lpars, and you can use logical volumes to software RAID the hard drives together to store virtual hard drive images. I've never gotten that far on POWER 5 systems but I've had some exposure to it on POWER 6, 8,and 10 systems.

Matthew Gregory

I wonder if there is a "modern alternate" hard drives like a blueSCSI that could be used as the hard drives are aging, great vido. You shoul build a face place like the real IBM rack with your 3d printers?