This is the SECOND time I found a computer sitting literally outside my door. This one, a NEC Ready 9522, was in much better physical shape than the prior HP which, as previously eluded, had no case, but was a much better machine. The HP was sitting just a bit away, this NEC was right beside my window, and a bit damp – I didn’t see it until after the spriklers went off.
This is a P100 and had an ancient BIOS revision which only allows 2 gig disks. I’ve since found an update, and it applied, despite being for a different model with a similar motherboard. I put the network card and second disk in to have some splace to play with should the primary fail – but all in all, iI’ve got it stable. The old PIIX controller won’t do DMA, and of course, neither will the disks, so I have to force-downgrade the driver in the generic kernel. The internal ISA rockwell modem is a write-off; I have no idea what the jumpers are, it has no discernable information – is not the default 9522 modem, and causes the BIOS to throw errors no matter the position.
Once i get it broken in and tested for a few days, I’ll most likely donate it to the local animal shelter (They have a nearby secondhand store, and I’m sure they could get a few bucks for it. :))
If you’re interested, here’s the dmesg:
OpenBSD 3.3 (GENERIC) #44: Sat Mar 29 13:22:05 MST 2003 deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: F00F bug workaround installed cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) (“GenuineIntel” 586-class) 100 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8 real mem = 66695168 (65132K) avail mem = 56250368 (54932K) using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes (3356K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(2e) BIOS, date 03/29/96, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7cd2 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.1 (BIOS mgmt disabled) apm0: AC unknown, battery charge unknown, estimated 0:00 hours pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xf7c80/0×910 pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 5 Interrupt Routing table entries pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 9 pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 (“Intel 82371FB PCI-ISA” rev 0×00) pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus WARNING: can’t reserve area for I/O APIC. bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0×8000 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 “Intel 82437FX” rev 0×01 pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 “Intel 82371FB PCI-ISA” rev 0×02 “Intel 82371FB IDE” rev 0×02 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured vga1 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 “Alliance Semiconductor AT22” rev 0×02 wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80×25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80×25, vt100 emulation) fxp0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 “Intel 82559” rev 0×08: irq 9, address 00:d0:b7:db:be:c1 inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0×60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 wdc0 at isa0 port 0×1f0/8 irq 14 wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0:Wheeee. Now if they’d only drop some “Ultimate in Cool” job positions upon my doorstop.. ;)