[rescue] what to ask for an Onyx?

[Mike Meredith]

On Thursday 06 March 2003 7:41 pm, Dave McGuire wrote:
>    Well I had a deskside Onyx a while back...I adored that machine,
> I'd love to get another one.  I sold it to Sridhar before moving down
> here to FL.  I have the Octane for fancy display stuff, but I really
> need to find a FDDI interface for it.  Is there an XIO HIPPI
> interface? 

Of course! How else are SGI's bigger (and newer) boxes connected to 
HIPPI?

> Mmmmm, now that would be nice...but the big hardware is
> in the computer room (where it belongs) and the Octane is on my desk
> in my office (where it belongs)...not sure what the distance

After maxing out the number of disks in my Octane, I'm thinking that the 
right place for one is in the computer room. Which brings me to the 
point ... anyone have any experience of those Cat-5 kvm extenders ?