I received my Pegasos 2 from UltraSpec today. I didn't have any
problems installing it. I'm using it right now.

--Aaron Diezman

Congrats and welcome. :)

Glad to hear you are satisfied :) and thank you for the positive feedback.

Ultraspec still has complete systems available, boards are currently sold out.

You people are great over there at Ultraspec. You were very helpful
and my emails were usually answered in MINUTES! Ultraspec is the
place to go in North America.

--Aaron Diezman

Hey congratulations!

Be sure to visit the #morphos irc channel

magnetic

@Aaron

Welcome!

I agree, ultraspec was wonderful. I talked to Nit on a regular basis, he is a man of character. Everything he promised was delivered.

Matt

gratz...
Pegasos 4ever - Micr0$0ft never!

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looking forward to receiving mine soon. Was setting up the hard drive to auto boot morphOS easy?[

Welcome, Bienvenue, Wilkommen etc.

Seriously looking forward to my second chance Peg II

@Acill

Auto booting from the hard drive is very easy. All that is required
is 4 SETENV commands in OF.

Since I took the HD off of my Peg 1, I also had change the boot.img
file on my boot partition.

--Aaron Diezman

Kwajalein, Republic of the Marshal Islands?!?!?!

WOW!



Can we visit!?!?!

R&B

congrats Aaron

I'm still YTBD here, with my tax return, I may get a Peg or a 970 based MAC. Still suffer from too many unknowns a.t.t.
on Peg2/G4
Does the RAM need to be ECC ?
Does the RAM need to be Registered ?
Does the RAM need to be 266mhz ?
Is it entirely impossible to run a faster G4 in it?

,but I digress
the list would exhaust my bandwidth Im afraid

"Does the RAM need to be ECC ?"

No, it doesn't.

"Does the RAM need to be Registered ?"

No, it doesn't.

"Does the RAM need to be 266mhz ?"

No, it doesn't.

"Is it entirely impossible to run a faster G4 in it?"

No, it isn't. Genesi plans to sell 1.4Ghz models in the future.

@ DethKnight

The RAM will have to support *at least* 266MHz.

It should be very possible to run faster G4's in it (also dual
processors), but no such CPU modules are yet available.

(BTW, keep the questions coming! )

Yes, you can use most of ddr memory modules from 266Mhz (that includes 266, 333, 400...). The Pegasos II is much more flexible accepting ram modules compared to the Pegasos I

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Okay gramma, (like in movie Rounders??)

-> Does this thing address 8GB RAM according to specs, OR is it 8GB addressable space, used mostly by m/board components ?

-> Does USB and DVD (work at all) / (work better) under PPClinux? , also MOL+macOSX? {noticed some ppl having morphos usb,dvd playback issues}

-> Which OS on peg2 addresses the MOST RAM {in cases I wanna max it out and need use of multiGB RAM} ?

-> UAE = good? bad? great? greatest? on peg2


-> would 160GB ATA 100 HardDisk be overkill or useless on peg2 ? if so whats the max recommended hdd size?

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This is a lot for most people's desktops :) Morphos requires very little space. You will probably want to have some "left over" space for future partitions like Linux and MOL if you choose to have a dedicated HFS partition.

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Well, that depends on if you'll be running mldonkey or not If you suck down enough movies/anime/etc, you can eat harddrive space up in a hurry! I've got a 40G drive, and am beginning to think it's too small. MorphOS is small, but those 400M per 1hour shows sure do zap the harddrive space (not to mention game roms!).

The above isnt' even getting into linux and maconlinux!

Well with the latest shipments of PEg2 going out there should be some more happy memebers of the pegasos community coming here



magnetic

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The O/S isnt what I would need the space for,
I plan to use it as a "content-creation" machine of sorts, so the storage is mainly for the resultant *dynamic* content. so dvd+/-rw would not be efficient imho.

Unless someone knows of an incredibly fast dvd+-r/w?

No, I don't know of a fast dvdr :)

Ok, then you can go for 120gb or more, they are somewhat affordable now. We have had good luck with Maxtor,Western Digital, and Fujitsu drives. Seagates have not been as good to us. The 40gb Barracuda we tested did not work. Others have reported success with Seagates. Search for "diamond max" to find some more threads about hard drives.