Now on to sum Indigo 2 questions was Re: Stewpit Indy questions <:-/ - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 May 2006

On May 11 2006, 16:28, Chris M wrote:

Hmm, didn't this get answered already?  Oh well, since I can't remember
what anyone said this morning, never mind over ten days ago...

...
  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. 
You can fit a very basic 6.5.x install in under 500MB, and a reasonable
install easily goes into less than 2GB.  The reason you have so many
CDs is that you have the base OS and then extras like NFS and the
compiler libraries which each have their own CD, then you have various
updates and install tools, and separately the various new versions of
applications and utilities.

...
  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. 
Sounds a bit like Sun disks, but they have normal SCA connectors.  If
what these disk have is something that looks like a shorter version of
an SCA, on the actual drive itself, that is probably fibre channel.

...
  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. 
O2s and the like want LVD.  Indys use single-ended narrow drives, but
LVD drives *should* sense that they're in a single-ended system and
operate in SE mode -- that's part of the standard.  A couple of mine
have LVD drives.  Wide drives will also work providing you have the
correct adapter -- you probably need one that terminates the upper 8
bits -- though you can still only uses unit numbers 1-7 (0 is the
controller on SGIs).

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