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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Path: sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!runge!rlv
- From: rlv@runge.mit.edu (Ralph Vinciguerra)
- Subject: SCSI compatibility questions for Indigo
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.201404.9061@galois.mit.edu>
- Summary: Differential SCSI? Will SunCDROM work.
- Keywords: SCSI specs, CDROM
- Sender: news@galois.mit.edu
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- Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 20:14:04 GMT
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- Well, I'm very excited to be receiving my first SGI machine on a network
- of Sun SPARCS. But, I'm trying to reuse hardware and I find I'm in the dark
- about SGI machines and their specs. So I have a few questions for some
- seasoned SGI owner:
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- 1) I have been told by an unreliable source that Indigos use
- "differential SCSI". I'm just about to buy a couple Seagate ST41200 1.9G
- drives, and my vendor says he can sell me these so-called differential SCSI
- versions. What's the deal? Is this a real difference, or a marketing concept?
- I thought the Indigo specs said "SCSI-II" and I'm all set using SCSI-II drives.
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- 2) I have a Sun (uh-oh) CD-ROM drive (SCSI). Will I be able to
- either NFS remote mount it from my Sun network, or at least plug
- it in directly? Or is there some fundamental difference from an SGI CDROM
- drive, so can't load software or boot?
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- 3) Perhaps I can use a remote SGI CDROM off my net attached to another SGI?
- Can I boot diskless, plug in this above SCSI disk, and set it up as the
- boot disk?
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- Thanks for your attention!
- Post or e-mail as appropriate:
- rlv@ssl.tasc.com
- RLVinciguerra@tasc.com
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