[geeks] Iris Crimson Rescue

Big Endian geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Sep 12 13:51:49 CDT 2001


>>I've been offered the opportunity to take an Iris Crimson for $30 -- the
>>major caveat is that it has no hard drives. Do SGIs take plain old SCSI
>>hard drives? Can they boot headless a la Sun Sparc? Lastly, is this thing
>>*really* going to suck 1100W? 8-|
>>
>
>yes, plain scsi, yes they boot headless (if you are going to do this 
>I'll pay you 3x what you're paying PLUS shipping for it, the only 
>SGI to run headless is a challenge/origin), it COULD suck 1100w, 
>depends on the configuration.

Ooops... forgot to mention you will need drive sleds.  I *THINK* onyx 
drive sleds will work but others will have to confirm that.

>daniel
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