11 May
2006
11 May
'06
7:25 a.m.
Don Y wrote:
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.
cheers
Jules