Legacy Evaluation Overview

Priorities for legacy systems

if the computer does not fit the criteria on this page that is a reason for recycling it

The Priority is top to bottom

AMD K6/2

• Ensure all major case parts are present (i.e. side and front panel)
• Replace hard drive(s) with a single, pre-wiped 6 gig drive
• Power up the system and ensure it recognizes the hard drive during startup
• Quickly place pulled hard drives into storage

  • • Storage for pulled hard drives is located between System Eval 1 and System Eval 2

• Things to remove from AMD K6/2 keeper systems:
  • All nonproprietary cards (AGP, PCI, ISA, etc) except the video card
  • All loose cables
  • CD-ROM drives marked 40x or higher on the faceplate
  • All CD-RW and DVD-ROM/RW drives

** NOTE: We should consider placing a whiteboard in Legacy Evaluation where we can list additional instructions that are subject to change, such as when to pull the following items not listed above:

• • Tape drives
  • ZIP drives
  • Floppy drives

386 486 P

• recycle if case is missing parts or dirty
• recycle if missing hard drive, video output, power supply, etc...
• run badblocks on all the drives

  badblocks -wvv /dev/hd*

Incompatibles

• Amiga
• Apple, etc:
  • Mac
  • Radius
  • PowerPC
  • PowerComputing
• Commodore
• DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation)
• Sun
• Silicon Graphics (SGI)
  • Indy (they're blue)