SGI Indigo2 IMPACT questions...

[Jochen Kunz]

On Sat, 21 May 2005 18:50:12 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> How to I tell what IMPACT video board it has? (Other than powering it
> up I suppose, but I'm going to be giving it a good clean inside
> first...)
IIRC: Solid IMAPCT is one board, High IMPACT (== Solid IMAPCT with
texture memory) are two boards and MAX IMAPCT (== High IMPACT with twice
as much Geometry Engines and Raster Managers) are three boards.

Power up machine, abort boot (press ESC or click with mouse), go to the
cammand prompt (press 5 or click Icon) and type the command "hinv". This
will give you a Hardware INVentory.

> Anyone have the SCSI connector pinouts? The machine has no drive
> sleds,
GOTO ePay
GET( "DriveSleds")
If this fails use an external disk / CDROM / ...
The connectors are, as you expected, not SCA. Don't waste time to
replicate the drive sleds. 

BTW: Internal and external SCSI bus are two independent busses with
separte host adapters.

> Any special flavour of memory the machine needs?
PS/2 FPM parity SIMMs, four per bank, max. 768 MB RAM total. (1 GB with
tricks)

> ... that'll do for now :) Once I've checked the machine over and made
> sure it looks like it'll work I'll worry about install media (I've got
> IRIX CDs - just a question whether they support the R8k / R10k CPU in
> this machine)
There where IRIX media specialized for certain platforms but this is
written on the installation media. If the is nothing written on the
media you can expect that they support all platforms that the given
release supported. Try to get IRIX 6.5.20m. This is the latest version
that officially supports this machine.

BTW: I am typing this on an Indigo2 R10k Solid IMPACT. :-)
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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