After being a SGI user in the mid-90ies, I finally got my hands on a SGI Indy!
The good news: it boots to the PRAM screen, I am planning to use a BlueSCSI has hard disk replacement.
The worrying news: the speaker started to make crackling sounds, which were soon followed by a strange burning...
hi all,
my kid pressed the power button of my indy the other day while the OS was running and it powerd-off immediately. is it possible to change this behaviour to either prevent the power button do that or make it shutdown the OS gracefully?
i did a search on the net but could not find...
I'm hoping someone might have a clue as to what the problem is with this Indy. I picked up the machine about 5 years ago with a failed Nidec PSU. Recently I decided to bite the bullet and fix the power supply, and after much work and replacement of failed components, it's now working.
The...
The host: a R5K/180 Indy.
Note: the Indy and scsi2sd required a terminator on the external scsi port. I don't normally leave one there, but the system would hang and crash without it.
The adapter: SCSI2SD v6.
SCSI2 turned on. Parity turned on. Set to 10MB/sync. 2GB allocated in the...
Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for...