[rescue] SGI, Origin 200, and speed?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Apr 28 14:48:50 CDT 2004


On Apr 28, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> So who's going to loan me a metarouter and find out if you could go 
>> more
>> than 4 way?
>
> I've heard reports that they "fixed" the firmware to prevent you from
> doing that and to keep you from linking a O2k and O200 together.

   I did try it, and I can tell you that you cannot successfully get an 
Origin200 to join an Origin2000 system.  It identifies stuff, it 
clearly communicates across the crossbar switches, but it fails with a 
bunch of weird errors which I can't currently recall.

          -Dave

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