[rescue] SGI I2 Impact rather cheap on eBay

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 12:07 AM, Matthew Haas wrote:
>  The hard drive may be another issue.. I know both my Indigo and Indy 
> take
> offense to most SCSI drives I throw at it (it considers them ghetto 
> SCSI,
> even though my SPARCs love 'em). Supposedly you need special firmware 
> on
> the hard drive for it to play nice in the SGI. YMMV... possibly if you 
> run
> it as an external drive.

   What?!  No way.  I've put dozens (literally) of completely random 
SCSI drives in Indigo^2 and Indy machines with excellent 
results...Never a problem.  I'm quite sure that NONE of them had 
SGI-related firmware.

          -Dave

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