[rescue] O2's

[Shawn Wallbridge]

>From what I have read, they are ONLY for capturing video and they will not
work with drives, etc.

shawn

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From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Kurt Huhn
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 3:56 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] O2's


> > The R5k O2 is a screamer - way more useable than, say, and Indy R5k.
> > Most of that is better video, and the Unified Memory Architecture - as
> > well as better SCSI.
>
> Plus, you can always install a UW card (perhaps a U2W, but that will
> cost a lot more since I don't think anything except genuine SGI will
> cooperate of the U2W cards) or a FC-AL card (unknown if anything buy
> official SGI will work).
>

I'm looking for either FC-AL or Firewire for my O2.  I know there are
SGI Firewire cards, but I've seen reports that they're just typical PCI
Firewire, nothing special about them.  It's on m list of stuff to buy
after I find a job...
--
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com