11 May
2006
11 May
'06
11:18 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Ah, OK. I know the VW320 is allegedly pretty capable.
I had assumed this was a "family trait". :>
<shrug> I'll see once I get it running...
Don Y wrote:
I think I should be OK, there. I've been through the same
issue with Sun machines... :-(
I can't see any need (for *me*) for a second
NIC -- at least
not in *this* box. And, I can probably dangle an external
CD, disk, etc. off the internal SCSI (via the HD50 connector
on the back).
SGI machines do seem a bit funny about which CDROM drives they'll work
with, at least at OS installation time. I've seen several drives that
work fine on SGI 4D machines but not on Indys, and vice-versa. (it goes
without saying that you'll need a drive that'll do 512-byte blocks
rather than the PC world's 2048 bytes) Is it safe to
assume that the "built in"
video is "good enough"?
Even the standard 8-bit video's pretty responsive. I don't think Indys
were ever aimed at *serious* video though; I think choices are limited
unlike a lot of their bigger machines. They were more intended as
affordable workstations that could act as visual front-ends to bigger
and better SGI systems.