[rescue] Non-SGI fddi in SGI?

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You have an octane PCI cage?  Lucky bastard, how'd you do it?  The best
I've seen is ~999, or what I paid for my octane.
	Nick

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Jonathan Katz wrote:

> Daniel wrote:
> > Does anybody know if DEC or Cisco fddi adaptors will work with IRIX? 
> 
> Not offhand. What does http://www.reputable.com/indytech.html say? Although
> geared to Indys it should have a link to some I2-info pages, right? (Been a
> while since I did the SGI thang.)
> 
> > I'm thinking of putting FDDI on my SGI box but I don't want to pay 
> > SGI for their own controller.  Ebay is replete with EISA and PCI fddi 
> > cards that I hope work with Indigo2s and Octanes respectively.
> 
> Your best bet would be a DEC or Cisco EISA card. I don't know of any
> I2 that did PCI.
> 
> -Jon
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