Christopher Smith wrote:
[re. broken SGI Indy]
> He was able to find the faulty part. Honestly, I wish I'd been
> able to do that, myself, but I don't have the stack of SGI pieces
> to do it :)
On an only slightly related note, IMHO the build quality and general
longevity of Silicon Graphics hardware really isn't what you'd hope
of kit that cost so much new...
I've seen Sun boxes that have been through the mill several times by
the look of things, but flick the switch and you're up and running
(possibility of needing to solder a battery onto the PROM
notwithstanding.)
Personal (limited, I grant you ;-) experience of Indys on the other
hand suggest you need at least 3 candidates handy if you want to put
together a working combination of power supply, processor and mobo/PROM.
And the chassis is horribly weak - the way the power supply clips into
place is very neat, but also makes it structurally very poor at the
join (L-shaped computer, anyone?)
I also don't think I've yet forgiven SGI for making the power
supply (simple slide-in/slide-out with two thumbscrews) on the O2000
a non user replaceable part - i.e. they won't sell you one without
a service contract and an engineer round to plug it in. And trying
to get an SGI Challenge to actually see all the devices on its SCSI
bus without trying them in 100 different permutations can keep you
occupied for at least an afternoon...
Which isn't to say I don't love 'em, an Indy is my main workstation at
home & the sight of SGI rapidly going down the tubes is deeply sad...
Cheers,
Tim.
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Received on Wed Feb 13 2002 - 04:34:31 GMT