21 May
2005
21 May
'05
2:20 p.m.
On Sat, 21 May 2005 20:18:13 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Well Octanes are getting cheap as dirt. Even 400 MHz R12k machines are
down to less then 100 EUR (100 US$). Beleve me: Even with the same CPU
(175 and 195 MHz R10k) and similar GFX (IMPACT == SI) an Octane will
outperform a Indigo2. The Octane features much higher bandwiths in all
aspects of a system. My main workstation is an Octane R12k 300 MHz, ESSI
+ ESI dual head, 2 GB RAM, 36 GB disk, DLT, CD-RW, ... I do everything
on that machine.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
Yes, I did wonder... :/ I *could* scavenge some old
SCA connectors
from dead SCA drives though and build some sort of adapter. Or, better
still, replace the whole internal bus with a normal cable and power
sockets - I just need pinouts of the system board SCSI connector
then...
Don't waste your time with this. Get a drive sled from epay or a an
other list menber or ... It costs much less then your time is worth that
you will need for this hack. And it will work much better.
Ahh, I had thought about that. I wasn't sure if it
was dual channel -
and if it was, whether it'd boot from a device on the second channel
(mind you I suppose it has to in order to boot from an external
CDROM).
I used external CDROMs on Indigo2s for instalation. Maybe it needs to be
on a special SCSI ID. (Start with 3, that is the standard ID of the
internal CDROM, don't use 0, that is the bus adapter itself.)
Aha ok. I think the biggest SIMMS I have are 16MB, but
not sure if
they're parity. Still, there are a bazillion SIMM sockets on the board
so even if I just fill it out with 4MB modules or something that'd
still be enough for starters :)
There are 12 sockets / 3 banks. Get at least 16 MB
SIMMs. You will be
able to use as less as 64 MB, but that is not much fun. 128 MB is barely
enough, 192 is OK if you don't use memory eaters. I have 758 MB in my
Indigo2 IMPACT. :-)
Can't remember what I've got now TBH. I
don't think it's as recent as
6.5.x though - likely it's 5.3 (I've used it to install on both Indys
and Indigos so it's certainly multi-platform... whether that's too old
to work with the Indigo2 though is another matter...)
5.3 may work. It is OK, but
try to get 6.5.20 if you really wane use the
machine. A 6.5 base set is OK, updates to newer versions, i.e.
"Overlays" in SGI terminology, are donloadable from SGI. There is a lot
of ready to install http://freeware.sgi.com/ but that requires 6.5.x...
BTW: I am
typing this on an Indigo2 R10k Solid IMPACT. :-)
Heh... nice machines by the sounds
of it. Certainly the good ol'
Indy's still pretty capable, so an Indigo2 can't really be any worse
:)