The collected works of darkninja

This is my old work workstation, Mihoshi from country.com in 1996. I brought it home when it was retired and used it for a while, but it has been off for a few years. It has and external caddy-load CD-rom drive, 2 Seagate ST39173N 9GB hard drives, and a Phobos G100 100Mbit ethernet card. I removed one of the 9GB drives due to noise and heat. I decided to fire it up to see if it still works. It does. The drive sounds a bit like a popcorn popper, but it always has. I'd like to get a quieter, bigger drive and max the ram at some point.
It is running IRIX 6.2, which is what it retired with. Still has Netscape Communicator and a lot of the Netscape dev tools installed. It can pull up nekochan.net (styling is a little off) but I can't log in from it. Would like to compile Synergy 1.5 for it for keyboard and mouse sharing with my desktop Windows and Linux boxes.

Edit: Upgraded the RAM to 256MB from 128, and installed a 73GB 2.5" Seagate Savvio drive with the contents of the 2 9GB drives.



Also from the same job I have a teal Indigo 2 and a Challenge S that I'll post separately when/if I get them going, and a Challenge L that I didn't have space or power for, so I eventually donated to the Jurassic Park:Origins guys. And bunches of SGI CD's from the late 90's to early 2000's.

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Stephen

Pic or it didn't happen...

Thanks for the complements!

A couple of questions:
Has anyone "restyled" an LCD/flat panel monitor to look more like an SGI Monitor? Granite paint?
Anybody have any spare chrome plastic SGI "bug" logos? I had 3 or 4 non-working SGI tube monitors that I recycled a few years ago, and didn't think to try to pry the logos off.
My el-cheapo "Balance" monitor doesn't quite fit the style of the Indy, but at least it is native 1280x1024 and works with SOG.

I am using a dip-switch style 13w3-VGA cable ( http://amzn.com/B001UJCL6Q http://www.cablesonline.com/613mtohdmsvg.html ) set up as "SGI Sync on Green" It works, but defaults to 1024x768 (which I guess makes sense with no id/sense pins connected). I set monitor h in prom, and it stays at 1280x1024 now, but it defaults to 60HZ. It will run at 76HZ (tried it with setmon) but it doesn't last past reboots. Any way to make the refresh frequency more permanent?

japes wrote: I might have a logo, let me check my inventory. It would have been from an Origin 200 front door.

Cool, thanks.

japes wrote: Why bother forcing a refresh rate faster than 60 Hz? Unless you're looking at a CRT monitor I don't see the point. 60 Hz is just fine feeding a LCD (as long as it syncs properly).

Hmmm, I thought it had a slight shimmer/flicker at 60Hz that went away when I set it higher. Maybe just psychological...

japes wrote: I really like the Indy. My Indy was out running Photoshop at a local vintage computer faire last weekend.

That's awesome. I didn't know PS was even available for Irix.

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Stephen

Back in the 90's, this used to be a firewall machine at work. To get two Phobos G100 100BaseT cards to work, we were advised by Phobos to replace the Mezzanine card with an Indy Graphics card. The Graphics card has no output as far as I can tell, and in any case, there is no provision for keyboard, mouse, or sound on a Challenge S.

@GL1zdA it isn't a dummy board, it is a real 8-bit indy NG1.

Here are some pictures. The inside ones I took prior to maxing ram and replacing the drive with a 73GB Savvio (same as my Indy )

I did find out within the last couple of years about the GIO extender, as I mentioned here . I'd guess at the time either SGI wasn't making them yet, or the Phobos guys didn't know about them.

Upgraded from 6.5(.0) to 6.5.22. First I installed patch 5086, then the overlay.
Hit the Panic: Kernel Fault on exit-commands.


determined from other threads here that I forgot to set the environment variable in prom for the rev 1.0 R5000


Was not looking forward to reinstalling, I have no working adapter for ec0, so have to swap out the harddrive into another machine to get the phobos driver on there. And my creaky caddy-load cd-rom drive can barely read any disks with the slightest scratch or mark or dust-- spitting them out over and over.
So booted into standalone (which worked even though a full boot resulted in kernel panic)
ran inst which showed "Outstanding exit-commands were saved from a previous session."
I let it run through those, and then re-ran the 6.5.22 overlay install for good measure. It finished quickly and I have a working system again. Woohoo!

I have this Indy http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16728856&p=7371124 that sounds like the correct config. How would I make a CHD image though? Note it has Irix 6.2, but by no means a fresh install.