11 May
2006
11 May
'06
4:28 p.m.
I've been successful in actually obtaining IRIX 6.5.?,
being that the gov't took the liberty of wiping the
hard drives clean. Each comes with at least a whopping
2 gig hard drive, some actually have 2 of these.
Egads. I can't imagine this level of storage being
very useful, being that the 6.5.? distribution resides
on 18 compact disks, but what do I know. But I
obtained these bizzarish 9.1 gig SCSI hard drives at a
computer show. They were destined for use in some
Unisys box, and are encapsulated in a plastic
cartridge/caddy thing. I'm guessing the interface is
SCA, although it differs from the plug that accepts
the drive sled in my Indigo 2's (they won't fit, I
tried). I guess I should have secured the part numbers
of the drive at least (Fujitsu), and I'll do that in a
follow up posting. I'd like to use them in these
things, and in fact have no other good use for SCSI
drives these days. Possibly a vintage Mac...the newer
ones, like the G3 Imac I obtained at the same show,
use IDE's IINM. I read somewhere that these SGI boxes
can use ANY? SCSI drive, provided they're not HDV. If
indeed this is true, is it also true for the Indy's,
being I got 2 of those in the same acquistion.
I guess I should summarize what it is I want to know.
Is there a way of adapting these drives for use in the
I2's, and what is it I'll need. I am not adverse to
sawing, filing, etc. if need be to adapt the original
SGI drive sleds to accept these things.
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