SGI Indigo2 IMPACT questions

[Jochen Kunz]

On Sun, 22 May 2005 17:58:24 EDT
Saquinn624 at aol.com wrote:

> Fast R4400 and R10000 systems probably benefit from IRIX 6.5.x, any
> version will run on them
IIRC 6.5.20 is the last version to officially support any "non-PCI"
machine.

> As has been said, SGI decided to be "different" and make the host
> adapter 0 instead of 7).
Actually this is the right way. ID 0 has the highest priority during
SCSI arbitration...

> Indigo2 might look bad next to an Octane, but in many things it will
> trash or keep up with O2, so don't knock it yet.
Sure. The O2 has its very speciffic features, but it isn't quite a speed
daemon. At least the R5k versions. The O2 has still better IO (Wide
SCSI, 100 MBit/s Ethernet) and with a bit of luck you can get a cheap
1600SW + O2 adapter...

> Where are these $100 Octanes? I want one!
Ebay items: 5773843994 5774072268 5773193789 5772298086
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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