From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5SGj0nC012013 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:45:00 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5SGj03t012012 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:45:00 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from mail.ntr.net (genoa.broadwing.net [65.90.208.154]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5SGisnC012000; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:44:55 -0700 Received: from ntr.net (12-220-164-56.client.insightBB.com [12.220.164.56]) by mail.ntr.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5SGmTq0014665; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:48:29 -0400 Message-ID: <3D1C9464.91CD9F71@ntr.net> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:52:52 -0400 From: "Marco C. Mason" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-26mdk i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: devfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Need contact info for Origin 200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hello, OSS @ SGI gang-- I need a little help, please! As a result of a company closing, I've received a pair of SGI Origin 200 servers. Unfortunately, since the support contract on them has expired, I can't seem to use any of the support services at www.sgi.com. I'm just a home experimenter who wants to run the things 'til they die. I'm very pleased with the performance, software, etc., and I'm very familiar with them (as I worked on them 8 hrs / day for a year and a half until the office closed). The only difficulty is that these things are LOUD! I'd like to find out if there are any temperature monitors inside the thing, and if I can run the fans at a reduced speed, or remove some of the fans to make them reasonable in a home environment. They don't do a lot (as I just do some CPU-intensive stuff on them every once in a while, and very little disk-I/O). Thus, I'd like to find a contact for simple (but technical) hardware questions like these on the Origin 200. If you guys could send me a friendly contact or two, I'd be very grateful. (I'm also interested in making the thing dual-boot Irix & Linux, if the Linux port is close to operating... I've also got a pair of Indys that I'm planning on sacrificing to the Linux gods...) Thanks in advance-- --marco