Indigo2 hard Disk
Simon Brown
I have an Indigo with a dead disk (I'm sure it's dead). What new disk could
I buy as a replacement? Anything from IBM or Seagate for example? Any models
numbers or type information received with much thanks.
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Simon Brown, Casa Bergenia, 7031 Laax, Switzerland
www.laax.ch HB9DRV
Ralf Beyer
Chris Wheaton (SGI ISD Product Design) once said:
Vendor is important when choosing high speed, high capacity drives
for the Indigo 2. Compare power dissipation numbers for some of the
drives on the market and you'll see the difference. Good numbers
depend on 3.3 V parts on the controller card and spindle motor
design/heatsinking.
As a general rule you should put your hottest drive in the number
one slot in the machine -- that bay has about double the airflow of
the other two and will adequately cool just about any drive on the
market.
Ian Mapleson once said:
I bought an 18GB Seagate Barracuda ST318416N - works fine in
Indigo2, under IRIX 6.5.
- IBM DNES-309170 9.1 GB
I bought 2 of these. Was impressed with their low noise, good access
and decent cache (better than Seagate at the time of launch).
My 2 main Indigo2s both use the 309170 as system disks.
Regarding the space requirements of IRIX 6.5.x and the growing size of
most applications I installed
- IBM DDRS-39130U 9.1 GB
disks both in bays 1 and 2 of some SGI Indigo2s. These disks run very
cool, silently, and are pretty fast.
Installations into some other SGI Indigo2s included
- Seagate ST15230N (Hawk) 4.2 GB
- Seagate ST39173N 9.1 GB
- IBM DNES-309170 9.1 GB
although 18 GB disk drives are more common to start with these days.
All these disks performed excellent. However, the disks were verified
by the vendor for operation in SGI Indigo2s. Points - among others -
were firmware, drive sled, and heat dissipation.
If you are going to configure the disk drive yourself be sure to get
the disk drive manual for the information on mounting, grounding,
SCSI ID selector and LED connections, and jumper settings.
If you have some spare bucks, select a vendor of disk drives that are
'verified for SGI Indigo2 running IRIX 6.5 and up' and have a warranty
of at least 5 years.
Regards
Ralf Beyer
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Walther Mathieu
and if the costs matter: I recently bought an adaptor for connecting IDE disks
on SCSI, a (cheap) IBM IDE disk and an external housing - voila: 40 GB of disk
space on my Indigo 2. Installation was as easy as ever with IRIX! I simply love
it.
Walther.
Simon Brown
Many thanks. Exactly the info I wanted.
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Simon Brown, Casa Bergenia, 7031 Laax, Switzerland
www.laax.ch HB9DRV
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Simon Brown
Thanks - this is *exactly* the info I wanted. I will probably use a Seagate.
I buy oldish systems for testing, it is only to be expected that a disk
dies.
Again, many thanks.
Simon Brown, Development Manager
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> I recently bought an adaptor for connecting IDE disks
>on SCSI, a (cheap) IBM IDE disk and an external housing - voila: 40 GB of disk
>space on my Indigo 2.
Is that adapter very large ? I'd kinda like to build an Indy laptop
(okay, maybe "portable" would be more accurate) and there are
no physically-small large capacity scsi hard disks available ...
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> I recently bought an adaptor for connecting IDE disks
> on SCSI, a (cheap) IBM IDE disk and an external housing - voila: 40 GB of disk
> space on my Indigo 2. Installation was as easy as ever with IRIX! I simply love
> it.
>
> Walther.
>
Hmm, what, where. how??
Norm Dresner
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