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Hi! New here. New to SGI. I recently acquired a beautiful Indigo which I would like to get working. I have Irix 6.5 downloaded and I have an external Apple SCSI CDROM (i hope it works).

Anyways, I'm in need of a hard disk for the machine. I'm reluctant to pay for a 20+ year old SCSI disk from eBay. Are there any alternative, affordable, methods of using an SD or CF card adapted to the 50-pin SCSI which will work? If not, what about adapting to an IDE disk?

I've seen some adapters online, ranging from $70 to $90. I'm hoping to find something a little closer to $10 or $20, though.

Bonus Q: Can I use my Sun mini din-8 keyboard and mouse with an SGI?

Hoping to find original (or at least compatible) keyboard and mouse for my Indigo. If all else fails, I'll resort to one of the $40 PS2 adapters.

Ah man.. I maaaay be able to round up the cash for shipping to 28690 without the monitor (assuming CRT) for my computer preservation group.. Waiting for mod to update this thread.

Well this thread certainly blew up since I last checked it and certainly contains a wealth of useful information.

So, based on what I've gathered from the above comments, my plan is to use a 50<>80 pin SCSI adapter like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-2014-SCA-80 ... 1462107251

With an SCA drive like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Seagate-Cheetah ... 1352458484

Seem like a good plan?

BTW - I'm on a little bit of a budget, but when money isn't a constraint I will totally look into the SCSI2SD for a long term solution.