From: Bob Mende Pie <mende@piecomputer.engr.sgi.com>
To: adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Some simple hardware questions...
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:48:06 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199706241648.JAA01365@piecomputer.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970624123035.406E-100000@lager.engsoc.carleton.ca> (message from Alex deVries on Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:38:39 -0400 (EDT))
> 1. Do Indy's come equipped with floppy drives? What are they? Is it
> possible to boot from them?
There is an option on indy's that allow for a SCSI iomega floptical (21MB)
drive. These drives are treated as a removable SCSI disk. You should be
able to boot from them but I have never tried.
> 2. I know O2's have PCI busses with a custom controller. Do Indy's have
> this too? What is the name of this controller? It would seem reasonably
> easy to slap a PCI VGA card in there and port XFree86 to run on it.
The indy does not have PCI. They use a gio bus.
> 3. Do Indy's ship with CDROMs?
As an option there is an external CDROM. I believe that (nowadays) you
have to really try to get a system without a cdrom.
/Bob... mailto:mende@sgi.com
http://reality.sgi.com/mende/ KF6EID
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-06-24 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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1997-06-20 18:42 ` MAP_AUTOGROW Ralf Baechle
1997-06-20 18:42 ` MAP_AUTOGROW Ralf Baechle
1997-06-24 16:38 ` Some simple hardware questions Alex deVries
1997-06-24 16:44 ` David S. Miller
1997-06-24 16:48 ` Bob Mende Pie
1997-06-24 16:54 ` Martin Knoblauch
1997-06-24 16:48 ` Bob Mende Pie [this message]
1997-06-24 16:48 ` Martin Knoblauch
1997-06-24 17:03 ` William J. Earl
1997-06-24 22:29 ` Miguel de Icaza
1997-06-24 23:05 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-06-24 23:05 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-06-24 23:02 ` Miguel de Icaza
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