Merlin to Win 2000

Now playing: Flower’s Grave by Tom Waits from “Alice”

Merlin is an IBM Netfinity 3000 Type 8476-31U SN 23FK107.

Two SCSI Drives (0) and (1) are in the back bays 5 and 6.

Target bay 2 for third drive.

IBM 10/100 Ethernet PCI Adapter 100Base-TX, 10 Base T.

Used Ctrl A at boot up to access Adaptec SCSI Select Utility.

Available IDs: 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15.

7 is taken by AHA-2940 Ultra/Ultra W controller.

8 – 15 are external SCSI.

IBM 9.1GB Wide Ultra SCSI HDD

    Jumper settings

    1 spare (50 pin) ID BIT 3 (for wide) – open

    2 id for bit 2 – open

    3 id for bit 1 – closed (to set SCSI 2)

    4 id bit for 0 – open

    5 enable auto spin – closed

    6 SCSI Term on – open (not at end of chain)

    7 Disable Unit Attn – open

    8 TI Sync Negro – Open

    9 Auto Start Delay – open

    10 Delay Start 6/12 – open

    11 Disable Parity – open

    12 LED out – open


Per manual: “The SCSI Cable provides termination.”

IDE controller for CD drive:

IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/Dual-channel IDE Controller

LG CD-ROM CRD-8322B

Bay 2 has 3.5 inch conversion kit pre-installed.

Removed 2 screws holding conversion kit in place.

Slid out front.

SCSI ID 0 = IBM-PSG DNES-309170W

SCSI ID 1 = IBM-PSG DNES-309170W

SSCI ID 2 = IBM-PCCO DDRS-39130W <– new drive

System-security – Keyboard is Unlocked

176 The system has been tampered with.

(Don't use CTRL+ALT+DEL. Netfinity doesn't like it.)

With 3 8.9 Gig Disks installed goal:

Disk 1: Vol C: Boot/OS 2 GIG FAT (WIN2K)

Disk 1: Vol D: APP: 6 GIG NTFS (NOTES/DOMINO/ETC)

Disk 2: Vol J: DATA 8.5 GIG NTFS MIRROR (NOTES/DATA, DOMINO/DATA)

Disk 3: Vol J: (Mirror)

Ctr-A at Boot to Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra/Ultra W utility. Low Level format disk 1.

Make Win 2k Boot disks using CD:\bootdisk\makeboot.exe

Used Win 2K to create 2047 MB C: partition

Chose FAT option.

Admin hh+les mis

Formatted Disk 1 C: as 2 GIG FAT. Installed WIN2K Server.

Formatted Disk 1 D: as 6 GIG NTFS

Formatted Disk 2 J: 8.5 GIG NTFS w/ Disk 3 as mirror

Installed PCAnywhere 9.2 w/ LiveUpdate. Set to run as service. Access is Windows Administrator Group.

Renamed Administrator to the DNU.

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