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From: scott@sgisupport.lerc.nasa.gov (SGI_Junkie)
Subject: IBM RS6000 1/4" Tape in SGI? 
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:43:05 GMT



One of the users writes:


> Can an IBM RS6000 model 7207 1/4 inch tape drive be connected to an 
> Iris Indigo vi its SCSI bus ? All that I could find in the manuals
> that came with the drive is the model number and that it is QIC-24,
> QIC-120, and QIC-150 compatable. 
> 
> Thanks for any help that you can provide.


> ==============================================================================
> Ronald R. Rivett                            voice: (216) 433-8281
> NASA Lewis Research Center            E-mail: xxronr@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov
> ==============================================================================


   Has anyone tried this? Reply to above or 
  scott@sgisupport.lerc.nasa.gov 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Subject: Re: I need help building xrn...
Reply-To: mikey@sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:00:28 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.213102.14263@newshost.unh.edu>, sjm@mermaid.msel.unh.edu (Scott McCue) writes:
|>   Hi, I'm new to the SGI world and am trying to get some basic
|> services built for an Elan and a 480GTXB. I've had success building
|> several X11-based packages for them, but my build for xrn6-17beta 
|> is punting.

The latest released version of xrn is 6.17, and you can get it from
ic.berkeley.edu.  It builds essentially right out of the box on SGI
machines with Irix 4.0 or later (you need to change config.h to put in
your organization name).  Just remember to use /usr/bin/X11/xmkmf
to build the Makefile.

|>   Lest ye ask, I'd prefer to use xrn than one of the other news readers
|> presently, largely because I'm too unfamiliar with the SGIs to try to
|> build nntp yet, and I understand that xrn doesn't require nntp.

This is incorrect.  Xrn requires NNTP.

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From: idall@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Ian Dall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: DECStation Compatability
Date: 28 Aug 92 04:57:04 GMT
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organization

We have DECStations and DEC are bing rather slow about bringing out
R4000 systems so I am wondering about alternate upgrade paths. I am
still skeptical about the Alpha since there are still no official
performance figures. Even if the Alpha is competitive, it doesn't have
the convenience of binary compatability. If we aren't going to
preserve binary compatability, it throws the whole thing open.

I believe that the r4000 has hardware support for simultaneously
running big and little endian user processes. If the software support
were there to run little endian Ultrix mips binaries on a SGI R4000
machine, it would be a significant selling point for us I realize it
is a "non trivial problem" getting all the system calls to work, but
SGI might just be able to steal a significant share of DEC's market!

The other feature we require is DECnet (not my decision, believe me).
Any tales about how good or otherwise the DECnet implimentation is on
SGI machines.
-- 
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From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Hardware Ethernet adress ?
Keywords: ethernet
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:11:08 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Aug31.140211.3659@news.uni-stuttgart.de>, zrm30423@nfhsn5.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Florian Wohlgemuth) writes:
|> How do I get the hardware ethernet adress on a Personal Iris 4D/25 (IP6) ?
|> 
|> nvram works only on IP12 (Indigo) Systems ...

Try "netstat -ia"
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: 1.2G internal Indigo drives?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 06:46:13 GMT

In <1992Aug25.223426.7927@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick) writes:

| I am thinking of getting an R4000 Indigo and the cost difference between an SGI  
| 43M drive and a third party 1.2G internal drive is not great. I put this  
| possibilty to the sales person who told me that they had experience of people  
| blowing graphics boards as a result of too much heat from some models of 1.2G  
| drive.

True; the Maxtor 1.2 Gb 3.5" drive is the worst offender on this; that
sucker runs hot (but it also is quite fast)!

There is no problem heat-wise with the IBM 1.2Gb 3.5" drive that we sell.

| (The model I have been looking at is the 1.2G DEC drive from Andataco.)

Could you comment further on the problems you have with that drive?

I've had various people ask me about using DEC drives on the Indigo,
and haven't been able to give them any info; not even the "a friend of
a friend of somebody my sister knows says:" variety!
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: outten@bellcore.com (Todd Outten)
Subject: ppp
Reply-To: outten@bellcore.com
Organization: Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Research Group
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:27:48


anyone know of an archive site that has ppp for sgi (or sys v) --
thanx 
todd
From: neil@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (Neil Jon Henson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Thin-net interface boards for SGI??
Keywords: ethernet, thin-net, hardware
Date: 3 Sep 92 01:44:56 GMT
Reply-To: neil@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (Neil Jon Henson)
Organization: UCSB Materials Department


	We are attempting to connect two SGI machines (PI 4D/35, and Indigo), and Macintosh in a sub-network using "thin-net". Currently, the PI is connected via thick-net Ethernet to the outside world, and we wish to set up a network
in which the PI acts as a server for the other machines.

	What hardware do we need to connect the PI both to the thick-net Ethernet and the thin-net simulataneously? We have had a quote from SGI Express at about $2500 for the necessary hardware. This seems rather high as we know that similar hardware for eg. Sun and Mac costs a few hundred dollars.

	Does anyone have any experience/advice on this?

	Thanks in advance,  Neil.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ort@wasp.eng.ufl.edu (Randy Thomas)
Subject: Anyone heard of Image Resources
Reply-To: ort@wasp.eng.ufl.edu ()
Organization: U of Florida  Engineering Computer Support Facility
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 21:09:59 GMT


Has anyone ever heard of a company named Image Resources?  If so, what
do they do and do you have anything really good or really bad to say
about them?

--
Randy Thomas
ort@eng.ufl.edu
Computer & Information Engineering Sciences
University of Florida
From: yamamura@iris4.chem.arizona.edu (Susan Yamamura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: G92
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:15:05 GMT
Organization: Chemistry Dept. Univ. of Arizona

G92
Gaussian

I have lost the name of the SGI guru on Gaussian implementations on
SGI platforms. Could someone please give me the name, telephone number
and e-mail address of the current SGI G92 and Gaussian implementation
contact at SGI?
Thanks very much.
Susan Yamamura
yamamura@iris4.chem.arizona.edu
From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Can I use the font mgr within a gl object?
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:40:51 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

I hope someone out there can help me with the following problem:

I've been trying to use strings printed through the font manager (with
fmprstr()) within gl objects, i.e. between makeobj() and closeobj().
However, it seems that the font manager and GL objects don't
cooperate: the string is printed immedeately and not entered into the
object. Printing strings without going through the font mgr (i.e.
using charstr()) does work, but this is not good enough for my
application.

Am I doing something wrong or is this impossible? The manual doesn't
say that I cannot use fm calls within objects, so I am still (very
slightly) hopeful that what I want to do is possible.

Alternatively, I would also be helped if there is someway to render fm
strings into an incore bitmap (so I can simply lrectwrite() the bitmap
to the screen whenever I need it).

Oh yes, I'm running 4.0.2 on an Indigo XS 24.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Subject: Re: 1.2G internal Indigo drives?
Reply-To: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:34:20 GMT

In article <p1tsqls@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)  
writes:
> | (The model I have been looking at is the 1.2G DEC drive from Andataco.)
> 
> Could you comment further on the problems you have with that drive?
> 
> I've had various people ask me about using DEC drives on the Indigo,
> and haven't been able to give them any info; not even the "a friend of
> a friend of somebody my sister knows says:" variety!

I've had no problems. I haven't bought one yet. I was hoping someone else would  
have used one or at least know if it runs hot.
--
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: merritt@climate.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John H. Merritt)
Subject: Re: 8mm and dd
Organization: Climate and Radiation Branch
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:52:48 GMT

In article <p9qi2f0@sgi.sgi.com>, jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug31.192332.26751@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, merritt@climate.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John H. Merritt) writes:
|> > 
|> > I have noticed that if the input file has an odd number of bytes and
|> > you output to the variable block device,  that the entire file will
|> > not be written; the last byte will be missing.
|> 
|> By the way, this should not be happening.  Do you have a simple test
|> case that can make it happen?

The example is trivial.  Pick a file with an odd number of bytes, gee,
coincidently my /etc/motd has 21 bytes and give it a spin-da-da.

climate> dd if=/etc/motd of=/dev/nrv8mm
climate> mt -t /dev/nrv8mm rew
climate> dd if=/dev/nrv8mm of=newmotd
climate> diff /etc/motd newmotd
2d1
< Welcome to climate.
climate>

Here are the results.  You will notice that the last \n did not
get copied to the tape, verified only by the subsequent read, and 
that some sporious character, 'a' in this case, was transferred
to 'newmotd'.  Do note that the 8mm tape that I am using has had data
written to it previously.  Actually, I don't think this matters if the
tape is a reused one, but that whatever was in the dd buffers on the
read or write ('a') was transferred.  Without seeing the 'dd' source,
I would gander a guess that the datatype for the buffers is 'short'.
Hmmm, specifying 'bs=1' works.

I'm really don't care to persue this example with a fresh tape; I know
what to avoid doing.

climate> od -xc /etc/motd
0000000    0a57    656c    636f    6d65    2074    6f20    636c    696d
         \n   W   e   l   c   o   m   e       t   o       c   l   i   m
0000020    6174    652e    0a00
          a   t   e   .  \n
0000025
climate> od -xc newmotd
0000000    0a57    656c    636f    6d65    2074    6f20    636c    696d
         \n   W   e   l   c   o   m   e       t   o       c   l   i   m
0000020    6174    652e    6100
          a   t   e   .   a
0000025




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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4D/80 won't boot - Should I NUKE it? HELP!!!
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:21:09 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Sep1.141648.19127@abbott.com> larry@abtlabs.uucp (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
| I and the owner of the machine are geting very frustrated so any help would
| be MOST sincerly appreciated.
| 
| We have a 4D/80 which when we try to boot gives:
| 
|   "SC 0,1,0: cmd=0x28 unexpected info phase 46, state 49, resettng SCSI bus"
| 
| Sometimes, but not often,  after 40+ tries it will "catch" and boot.  From
| then on the machine seems normal.
| 
| Some history.  The machine is under maintenance and the local folks have
| replaced literally everyting except the case, backplane and power supply.
| Some of the cables have been replaced.  This all started about the time I
| put 4.0.1 on the machine.  It has been upgraded from 4.0.1 to 4.0.4 and
| yesterday 4.0.5.  Our local CE has spend alot of time with the factory
| trying to figure this out to no avail.

Hmm.  there was an IP4 SCSI bug in 4.0.[2-4] fixed in 4.0.5, but
the symptoms were somewhat different.  This one sounds to me like
bad termination, or cabling on the SCSI bus.  The bug wasn't in
4.0.1, I'm pretty sure.  Check for more than one SCSI device having
terminators, or no terminators on the last SCSI device.

Just to be sure though, you could make sure that the new sash did
in fact get installed in the volume header, by using
	cd /tmp
	dvhtool -v g sash sash
	odump -fv sash
assuming you have the development tools.  If it is really the 4.0.5
sash, the date will be in June (or was it July; how time flies ;)
of 1992.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Using a regular file as swap space?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 03:01:34 GMT

In <1992Aug27.150230.21975@news.acns.nwu.edu> williams@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gus Williams) writes:

| I recently ran into a small problem.  We have an old groundwater
| code (written in the dark ages before computers) that needs to be
| run occasionally.  This code needs huge amounts of swap space. On
| the order of 300 megsf (in addition the the 48 megs of ram on my
| machine).  On a SUN I use I can use the mkfile command to create a
| file and the swapon command to use that file for swap space (slow
| but faster that doing the calculations by hand).  I can't seem to
| find out how to do this on a SGI.  Any help would be apprieciated.

We don't support it yet; maybe in the next release.

| Also on the same subjet.  Is it possilble to swap to a swap partition
| mounted on a remote machine.  Again on the SUN I can do
| 	swapon remote:/dev/sd2b  (or something like that)
| Can I do this on SGI?

Nope.  I suppose that it could theoretically be done to a remote
file, since this is what diskless does, but I don't think there
is anyway to do it with the /etc/swap command.

If you have an extra disk, you can use 'swap -a' to add more
swap space on that disk.

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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: bobg@rains.wpd.sgi.com (Bob Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Wavefront bombs under Irix4.05
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:28:54 GMT
Reply-To: bobg@rains.wpd.sgi.com (Bob Green)
Organization: sgi

Please be cautious when "upgrading" your software whether
it is a major release or a maintenance.  In the Release Notes
we caution everyone to contact the originators of their
software to determine if that vendor recommends installation
of a new OS.  Problems can arise from three major areas:

	1. SGI introduced a regression
	2. the vendor had a bug which only showed when the
	   OS behaved correctly
	3. the vendor has code which senses the OS version
	   and does not work with unrecognized versions

All of these result in your application code NOT working.

Thanks
Bob Green (SGI)
From: hshamans@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harry T Shamansky)
Subject: Re: does anyone have the "dd" source code or good mtio examples???
Keywords: Exabyte 8500 raw SCSI driver example
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:27:25 GMT


 Hi..

 I just had the occasion to write a very short driver for the Exabyte
 8500 8mm tape drive for the Indigo. This simple driver returns the 
 amount of tape remaining on the tape, if the tape is write-locked,
 if the tape is actually in the drive, as well as a ton of other performance
 issues which the Exabyte reports.

 It may not be of interest to you, but it does talk directly to the SCSI
 device, using SGI's ds/dslib services. We use it to fully automate nightly
 COMPLETE user backups, as well as monthly backups. Let me know if you are
 interested in this one; it can easily be modified to do all other types of
 mt operations, given a good reference on the SCSI commands which are
 supported by the drive.

 Harry Shamansky
 hts@hertz.eng.ohio-state.edu
From: stephens@slowhand.wes.army.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: abekas scsi driver
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:55:56 GMT


we have an abekas 66 video disk and want to drive it off of an sgi running
4.0.[345] via scsi.. i recall someone from sgi saying that 4.0.x has a
scsi driver for the A66.  I can't seem to find it.
does anyone out there have such a driver and if so where do you get it?

muchos thanx
mike stephens (stephens@slowhand.wes.army.mil)
From: andersen@marvin.ama.ttu.edu (Kim Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Should I install 4.0.X on 80GTs and 20Gs?
Date: 31 Aug 92 02:38:57 GMT

I would like to hear any experiences people might have had 
upgrading 80GTs and 20Gs to 4.0.1.  I have 2 of each, all 
with 16MB of memory.

Should I bother with 4.0.X at all, or are they going to be
so godawful slow that I should just forget it?

Thanks for any information,


Kim Andersen
Harrington Cancer Research
andersen@marvin.ama.ttu.edu
From: cheekin@flash.swl.spec.ptg.sony.co.jp (Tang Chee Kin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RE: sysadmin
Date: 2 Sep 92 01:34:17 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



    I especially thanks the following persons for pointing out to me the
    info regarding the /debug.

    Bill Henderson <billh@vab02.larc.nasa.gov>
    Yaron Zabary <yaron@aristo.tau.ac.il>
    rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
    heiko@harpo.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Heiko Schlichting)

    thanks.

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: multi-processor R4000 machines
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:34:06 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Sep1.205152.693@portal.vpharm.com> markm@portal.vpharm.com (Mark Murcko) writes:
| Can anyone give the net a sense of when the multi-processor R4000
| machines may truly be available, how many processors, what they will
| cost, etc.?  Now that the R4000 indigo and Crimson seem well
| established it must be getting close ...

Anybody who knows can't say.  You'll just have to wait for
announcements.  Anybody who can say, either doesn't know, or
doesn't respect the non-disclosure agreements they sign, so they
probably aren't reliable sources...
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: What's A Good PC SLIP?
Date: 2 Sep 92 10:58:03 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

A colleague of mine wants to transfer files once a week from a
PC to an Indigo. Since both machines were on the "net" this was
relativley simple. Now he has been told that his University wants
$20/month/machine for net connections which seem a bit much just
for weekly file transfers. While I have never used it myself,
I suggested that a SLIP connection might be useful alternative in 
this context.

My colleague then had two questions which I couldn't directly answer.
First, what PC implementation of "SLIP" do SGI users recommend?
I have (and use) the Clarkson "CUTP/CUTE" public domain software
which I believe can be used with SLIP, but like I said I have never
used it with a serial line connection.

Second, remembering that this would be a DIRECT connection (no modem) 
what's the likely maximum baud rate? 

Thanks.

-- 
David M. Senseman (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)
Division of Life Sciences
The University of Texas at San Antonio