21 May
2005
21 May
'05
11:50 a.m.
Dan Williams chucked us an Indigo2 the other week amongst a load of DEC
stuff - I've only just had chance to take a look at it, although I've
brought it home for the week to fiddle with :)
Initial questions:
How to I tell what IMPACT video board it has? (Other than powering it up
I suppose, but I'm going to be giving it a good clean inside first...)
Anyone have the SCSI connector pinouts? The machine has no drive sleds,
so I need to improvise something (I gather it's not compatible with SCA,
despite being the same physical connectors). Worst case I could run it
from an external disk I suppose.
Any special flavour of memory the machine needs? I've got a bucket of 72
pin SIMMs of various types kicking around, so I'm sure I'll have
something that'll work...
... that'll do for now :) Once I've checked the machine over and made
sure it looks like it'll work I'll worry about install media (I've got
IRIX CDs - just a question whether they support the R8k / R10k CPU in
this machine)
cheers
Jules