MindWalker
Experienced Member
Hi.
I bought an interesting re-branded IBM 43p; a "CreoScitex Brisque Impose":
The bottom sticker says "IBM Italia, Machine Type: 7043-150" so I believe it's simply an OEM thing with custom stickers slapped on to the case.
The machine came without a PSU or RAM, but since a helpful member here helped me I now have a working PSU and two 128MB RAM sticks.
The machine had quite a bit of corrosion on the chassis; around the rear connectors and the front next to the big chassis fan. The motherboard looks quite quite clean and since getting the PSU the machine does boot seemingly ok (althogh I've been getting RAM errors; removing one stick clears that so it's either a bad RAM stick or a contact issue on the second slot). For some reason the machine always starts by itself when I plug in the mains cable?
The machine came with two hard disks; an IBM 9,1GB and a Seagate 36GB. With the disks in, the machine attempts to boot into an AIX4 installation and eventually gets into a login prompt (just "AIX Version 4", copyright 1982, 1996) but seems to freeze there as I can't type anything. I am attempting to dump the disks (using a ZuluSCSI's initiator mode to dump the disk into an image file on the SD card) just in case there was anything special there (ie. something by CreoScitex if this were still the OEM installation) but I'd like to use the disks to install a fresh copy of AIX (which version would be recommended?).
I've been trying to at least boot the machine but I haven't had any luck so far. I've been using a PiSCSI and ZuluSCSI connected to the external SCSI connector with an adapter to 50-pin. This seems to work as the computer can see an emulated CD/hard drives I create from both emulators.
However I haven't been able to get any ISO image to boot at all: it's either:
I bought an interesting re-branded IBM 43p; a "CreoScitex Brisque Impose":
The bottom sticker says "IBM Italia, Machine Type: 7043-150" so I believe it's simply an OEM thing with custom stickers slapped on to the case.
The machine came without a PSU or RAM, but since a helpful member here helped me I now have a working PSU and two 128MB RAM sticks.
The machine had quite a bit of corrosion on the chassis; around the rear connectors and the front next to the big chassis fan. The motherboard looks quite quite clean and since getting the PSU the machine does boot seemingly ok (althogh I've been getting RAM errors; removing one stick clears that so it's either a bad RAM stick or a contact issue on the second slot). For some reason the machine always starts by itself when I plug in the mains cable?
The machine came with two hard disks; an IBM 9,1GB and a Seagate 36GB. With the disks in, the machine attempts to boot into an AIX4 installation and eventually gets into a login prompt (just "AIX Version 4", copyright 1982, 1996) but seems to freeze there as I can't type anything. I am attempting to dump the disks (using a ZuluSCSI's initiator mode to dump the disk into an image file on the SD card) just in case there was anything special there (ie. something by CreoScitex if this were still the OEM installation) but I'd like to use the disks to install a fresh copy of AIX (which version would be recommended?).
I've been trying to at least boot the machine but I haven't had any luck so far. I've been using a PiSCSI and ZuluSCSI connected to the external SCSI connector with an adapter to 50-pin. This seems to work as the computer can see an emulated CD/hard drives I create from both emulators.
However I haven't been able to get any ISO image to boot at all: it's either:
- 20ee000c error (from the System Management Service / Install from... -menu, ie. it doesn't recognize it as bootable)
- it gets an AIX x.x.x as a boot option in the menu, but selecting that get's a neverending scrolling screen of "Unexpected Firmware Error: DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00300 at %SRR0: 00c18d30 %SRR1: 00002030"