R3K SGI Indigo & installing IRIX 5.3

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon Jul 5 13:25:37 2004

On Jul 5, 11:38, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> Blah! OK, the Indigo doesn't like my old Apple SCSI CDROM drive, even
> though the Indy and my Sun Ultra 1 do... luckily I had a spare
> quad-speed drive which has a sector-size jumper on the back. (So it
> wasn't a bad SCSI cable or a problem with the Indigo's external SCSI
> connector as it turns out)

Probably the drive responds correctly to the command to set the
blocksize. The Indy and later machines, and most not-too-old Suns can
do that from the boot PROM, but an Indigo can't (nor can my
Sparcstation 1).

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Mon Jul 05 2004 - 13:25:37 BST

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