[rescue] Re: Indy question

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Fri Feb 22 09:25:05 CST 2002


>  > I've been selling a couple for far less than that, R4400 150-200mhz,
>>  64-128MB and XZ or "Elan" graphics... Actually I got one at a swap meet
>>  this month with unknown graphics and some sort of SC-connector fiber card,
>>  no RAM, 1gb disk, cdrom, for $25. I haven't gotten it to work yet, but you
>>  can find them in some places fairly cheaply.
>>
>Look at the number of big CPGA chips in the 4 sockets in the middle of the
>thing, if there's 2, it's an XZ.  If it has all 4, then it's an Elan.
>I wasn't aware that the R4400-200 would work in an Indigo,  I knew about the
>R4400-150...
>
>Could that SC-fiber card actually be a GIO32 FDDI card?  Damn, I'd give any
>three digits for one of those...

His are Indigo2s.  The mid range graphics on the indigo2s had either 
2 or 4 GE7s depending on the revision.  If it has 4 then it reports 
ad "elan".  The fddi card is likely EISA but may be GIO64.

daniel
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