NVRAM battery replacement

[Pete Turnbull]

On Apr 8 2005, 22:57, Saquinn624 at aol.com wrote:
> I pulled the coin-cell holder off of an old PC clone PC board and
then
> epoxied it to the top of the NVRAM- works well and will make future
changes easy.
>
> Ethan- the DS1287 is the one used in SGIs (I2, Indy), isn't it?

No, Indys have a Dallas DS1386-8K-150, but I imagine it can be dealt
with in a similar way, though I think you can still get them from
Maxim.

SGI serial numbers are their MAC addresses, so you don't even need to
make them up, just read them off the machine's label; also you can
program the MAC address into a *blank* Dallas chip from the boot ROM
prompt (at least on an Indy), so you don't need any fancy process.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York