[rescue] SGI Origin 200 firewire upgrade - A little OT

Jonathan Katz rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Jul 2 14:41:14 CDT 2001


Nick wrote:
> The o200 takes 2 cpus per tower, however you can craylink two towers
> together to get 4 cpus, 12 disk bays, up to 10? XIO slots, and 14 pci
> slots (assumeing dual towers, and dual gigachannel towers).  Speaking of
> gigachannel towers, anyone know where i can pick one up? <grin>

Note that "CrayLink" is a name-only thing and was solely designed and
deployed by SGI-- they just used the name for marketing.

At one job I used to admin a 4-CPU O200. Nice box. Consolidated
two Onyx's onto it and it still flew.

-Jon



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