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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Putting disk in an R4000 Indigo
- Message-ID: <s9pd1so@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 01:28:34 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.204741.28323@bradley.bradley.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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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?
-
- The external connector is the standard SCSI centronics connector.
- Get yourself a box with a powersupply, and you should be just
- fine.
-
- Some of the 3rd party drive vendors now have the drive sleds
- for the Indigo, also.
-
- | Also, am I correct in assuming the the R4000 indigos
- | (unlike the R3000s) accept standard commodity 9-bit simms?
-
- No. They are by 36, not by 9, but they are available fairly
- standard.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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