From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA03174; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:51:42 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id JAA07046 for linux-list; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:51:04 -0700 Received: from piecomputer.engr.sgi.com (piecomputer.engr.sgi.com [150.166.75.28]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA07034; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:51:02 -0700 Received: (from mende@localhost) by piecomputer.engr.sgi.com (970321.SGI.8.8.5/970502.SGI.AUTOCF) id JAA01365; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706241648.JAA01365@piecomputer.engr.sgi.com> From: Bob Mende Pie To: adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca CC: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-reply-to: (message from Alex deVries on Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:38:39 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: Some simple hardware questions... Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > 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