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- From: steev@ipecac.esd.sgi.com (Motorin' Flarey Henderson)
- Subject: Re: Putting disk in an R4000 Indigo
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- References: <1992Nov11.204741.28323@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 18:11:30 GMT
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- In <1992Nov11.204741.28323@bradley.bradley.edu> guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
-
- > We are considering purchasing a 15 seat lab of indigos.
- >We'd like to avoid paying SGI's high prices for peripherals
- >and thus we'd like to put our own hard drives in the machines.
- >However, it appears that the indigos use a funky card connector
- >rather a normal scsi cable for the drive interface. Could
- >someone tell me what is involved in installing an internal
- >scsi drive on an R4000 indigo?
-
- Offhand, I'd say that the easiest way to connect your own HD is to connect
- it externally. There may be some third party company that will sell you the
- necessary goodies to install it internally?
-
- > Also, am I correct in assuming the the R4000 indigos
- >(unlike the R3000s) accept standard commodity 9-bit simms?
-
- Close, the simms in the R4K Indigo are standard commodity 36bit, 72pin
- simms (80ns). These are obviously different than the even more commodity
- 30pin 9 bit simms. The memory data bus width for the R4K Indigo is 128
- bits wide. Imagine if we used 9 bit simms what that would mean! You would
- have to install simms in groups of 16!
-
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