[rescue] SGI Indigo 2 10000 SCSI Question

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

Check the output from the "hinv" command, that should let you know the
type of SCSI chip you have. Do a google search and find out the specs for
that chip (I forgot exactly what each chipset specs were).

Irix supports stripping by the OS, at least 6.5... make sure you install
all the XFS stuffs (it is not included in the std installation)

> I've just read on a couple of web pages that later Indigo 2's
> had ultra (narrow) scsi capable of 20MB/sec.
>
> However, no site seems to explain how you go about finding out
> if that is what you have or not.
>
> So... how can I find out if my Indigo 2 10000 Max Impact has
> 10MB/sec of 20MB/sec SCSI speed ?
>
> Secondly... if it does, is 20MB/sec enough for uncompressed video
> capture from an ev1 board ?
>
> If not, I'd think 40MB/sec would be, so I could do disk striping
> using an internal drive and external drive (does SGI support disk
> striping in the OS, or do you need an unbundled product) ?
>
> One of the things that would be neat to do is to bring in NTSC video
> capturing it, then encoding to MPEG say for VCD or something.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>   -- Curt
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