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From: paulr@umbc4.umbc.edu (Paul Riddle)
Subject: tape woes on SGI
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:53:47 GMT


Hey everyone,

Has anyone had any luck getting rdump on an HP running HP-UX 8.0 to
work with rmt on an SGI running Irix 4.0.5?  I keep getting the error
"protocol to remote tape botched; in rmtgets" or something similar.

Also, what's the secret to writing to /dev/tape on the SGI?  I have a
Crimson server with an 8mm hi-density SCSI tape drive.  Writing out
tar or bru archives on the SGI works fine, as does running dump on a
local filesystem.  But, anything else just gives me an "invalid
argument".  For example, I can hook the same drive up to one of my DEC
machines running Ultrix, do an "echo hi >/dev/nrmt0h", and read it
back with no problems.  But, I try to do the same thing on my Crimson
and I get "invalid argument".

Am I missing something obvious here?

Also, we've been sort of unhappy here with dump/rdump due to problems
such as this one, and were kicking around the idea of buying a
commercial backup system such as Legato.  It has to support network
backups of machines in a large multivendor (DEC, HP, NeXT, Sun, SGI)
environment.  Has anyone had experience with any of these packages?

Paul
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: volume logicals 4d20 and /usr
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 22:26:08 GMT

In <32959@adm.brl.mil> glenn@squall.met.fsu.edu (Glenn G. Daughenbaugh) writes:

| i would like to create a logical volume on /usr on a wimply 4d20 170mb drive.
| i have installed 4.0.1 (limited). i have an external drive (scsi(0,2))
| which i would like to add on to the /usr partition. currently i only have
| a few mb left in the /usr. question 1 is this possible? if not ,what directories
| 
| can i link over the other external drive (i.e./usr2)..

Yes, it is possible.  You can also symlink any directory from /usr to
the 2nd drive that you want, as long as both drives get mounted during
system startup (i.e., appear in the normal way in /etc/fstab), or if
the directories only app programs that aren't used during bootup.
--
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
Subject: bad page read
From: rz64938@mystic.d50.lilly.com (David W. Crumbacher)
Date: 15 Oct 92 08:32:01 EST
Reply-To: rz64938@mystic.d50.lilly.com (David W. Crumbacher)
Distribution: world,local


We have been experiencing a problem with a locally-written daemon that runs
on our SGI's.  It is a sockets-based code that listens on the network for
certain requests (send a file, notify a user, etc).  Occasionally, when a
remote machine tries to connect, the daemon dies and the following message
gets written to /usr/adm/SYSLOG:

Oct 13 23:17:50 flounder unix: WARNING: Process [listend] pid 5522 killed due
to bad page read (errno:134)

This doesn't happen all the time.  In fact, it usually works again when we
restart the daemon (i.e. we can't reproduce it and we don't know what is
causing it).

We also can't tie it to a particular version of IRIX.  It has happened on
versions up to and including 4.0.5.

Any thoughts or suggestions?  Thanks.

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From: sgi.com!pdi!shoshana@BRL.MIL (Shoshana Abrass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Exabyte (8500) speed
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:24:15 GMT


  I'm posting this for someone in my company:

------------
Something we need to look into is the slowness of the 8mm drives. 
The hardware is rated at 500k bytes per second and we get about 
300k bytes per second. 

I was told the SGI driver does excessive status checks becuase 
of an old exabyte bug. Maybe there is a new driver out there ?
------------

  -shoshana
   shoshana@pdi.com
   Shoshana Abrass
   Pacific Data Images, Sunnyvale, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: root@itnsg1.cineca.it (Valter Cavecchia)
Subject: Re: Icon images
Organization: Laboratorio di Fisica Computazionale, INFM. Trento Italia
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:04:40 GMT

lau@avila.ai.sri.com (Stephen Lau) writes:


>Howdy,

>	This may be a FAQ, but I couldn't find the info anywhere.
>In /usr/lib/images are a bunch of SGI rgb images that are used
>for the icons. I have some images I want to have used as icons 
>whenever a particular program runs. How do I specify the icon 
>picture to use without actually putting the image in /usr/lib/images?
>If I put the image in /usr/lib/images, it automatically picks it up,
>but then we get into problems with permissions and other stuff.

>Any info would be great. Thanks.

>Steve

Look at the manual page for 4Dwm. 
	valter
From: smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: What format does the "snapshot" command save in?
Date: 8 Oct 1992 22:16:18 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


The snapshot command saves a file with the extension .rgb.  What file format is this?  I've downloaded the .rgb file to my Amiga at home, and none of my
image processing programs can load it.  One of them, however, "thinks"
that it's a Targa, but doesn't have the right loader.  The other program
has a Targa loader but can't load the file.

So is there a program on the Indigos or Sun SparcStations to convert .rgb
files to something more useful, like a jpeg, ilbm, gif, etc?  Something that
my program at home can read?

Thanks!

-- 
   Brian M. Aljian
   smythe@stallion.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: hostname change causes problems
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:55:41 GMT

In article <qvbnlfc@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
> In <1992Oct9.200233.18103@agouron.com> kupec@agouron.com (John W. Kupec) writes:
> 
> | Summary:  I've changed the hostname of a machine and it now
> | 	  is having problems with net services.
> | 
> | Description:  Machine was originally called "mred".  All remote
> | 	services in/out (rsh, rlogin, etc.) and automounter
> | 	worked fine.  Machine name since changed to "MrEd".  Now
> | 	"MrEd" can't start automounter or other services.
> 
> Do you perhaps have /usr/usr/resolv.conf present, and configured
> to use DNS ahead of nis and the local hosts file?  If so, does
> 'nslookup MrEd' find the IP address?  If you are using DNS, and
> DNS can't find it, that might explain the problem.  I can't think
> of anything else.  Of course, it would take a broken DNS implementation
> to find mred and not MrEd, but anything is possible...


I've forgotten--wasn't the NIS hostname map case sensitive once upon a time?



Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: jlevine@netcom.com (James Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Pizza-box R4000?
Date: 11 Oct 92 20:03:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

I've heard vague rumors of stripped-down Indigo (what could you strip from it?)
pizza-box style, selling for under $5000.  I've also heard it may be as much as
3 years down the road (which makes no sense, since by then you would expect
a regular Indigo to be going for that).


In article <qu3h8nk@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <1992Oct10.152605.5103@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
>
>| If the "pizza-box R4000" has been officially announced as has
>| been suggested on this newsgroup, could someone post what
>| is known about this offering?
>
>There has been no such announcment that I know of.  Furthermore,
>I'll stick my neck out, and say that I don't think there is any SGI
>product under development that I would characterize as a "pizza box"
>style case.  Of course, I don't know everything that goes on at SGI,
>and this is by no means an official statement!
>--
>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
From: 82b3646@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: MicroTek Scanner (help!)
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:17:20 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales

We have a MicroTek 600GS scanner and would like to
attach it to an indigo.

The 'scanner' program complains that this model is
not supported when it is attached to the scsi (7) bus.

Has anyone got/know-how to make such a scanner work ?

ian taggart
univ. of nsw
sydney Australia
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Exabyte (8500) speed
Date: 14 Oct 92 06:16:57 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <33057@adm.brl.mil> sgi.com!pdi!shoshana@BRL.MIL (Shoshana Abrass) writes:
| Something we need to look into is the slowness of the 8mm drives. 
| The hardware is rated at 500k bytes per second and we get about 
| 300k bytes per second. 

300K per second is pretty reasonable for 'real' use (i.e, backups,
tar, etc.), since you have to read from disk, write to tape, etc.

A dd from /dev/zero to /dev/nrtape should get you pretty close to
500KB/sec on the 8500 (and 240KB on the 8200, or the 8500 writing
tapes in 8200 mode).

| I was told the SGI driver does excessive status checks becuase 
| of an old exabyte bug. Maybe there is a new driver out there ?

I have no idea where this story could have come from.  I know of
nothing in any of the tape drivers that is remotely close to this
on any SGI system.
--
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
From: gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Indigo:  Feed the cat and make coffee?
Date: 12 Oct 92 05:28:17 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Oct11.234602.1@alien.gici.com>, laut@alien.gici.com
(Bill Laut) writes:
|> Recently, I've seen some questions posted regarding the transfer of
|> digital 
|> audio from a DAT machine into the Indigo.  One of the replies
|> referred to
|> a program called "soundeditor,"  which allows you to edit your sound
|> waves.
|> Where does "soundeditor" come from?  Is it standard or optional?

soundeditor is a standard system utility for graphical audio waveform
editing.  All you need is the system software with the DigitalMedia
software.  If you have 4.0.5F, you should have it. (Other releases since
July may contain the Digital Media software.  Ask your doctor or
pharmacist)

|> Finally, the posting about "soundeditor" inspired this $64,000 question: Is
|> there a software package out there, somewhere, that allows you to use an
|> Indigo as a disk-based digital audio recording and editing system? Sort of
|> a low-cost version of an Otari ProDisk-464? 

Try calling WaveFrame.  They will inform you about the status of their
announced TidalWave multitrack recorder/editor for the Indigo. Dunno the
tel. #.
From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: protect except for one other person
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:27:05 GMT
Reply-To: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

In article <33071@adm.brl.mil>, SERRER@odin.nrc.ca (Martin Serrer) writes:
- Keith Bornhorst (bornhor@caravaggio.helios.nd.edu) writes...
- 
- >Use the "fs setacl" command:
- >
- >fs setacl -dir DIRECTORY -acl PERSON rlw
- 
- Huh??? Which version of the OS is this on? I'm running 4.0.1 and can't find
- hide nor hair of the fs command.

Not directly, Keith forgot to tell you that you have to port afs to Irix 
first ... well, never mind.

                                          Thomas
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From: menoche@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Charles Paul Menoche)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Soundfiles?  How do I get from DAT to SGI?
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:28:31 GMT
Reply-To: menoche@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Charles Paul Menoche)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: menoche@doc.cc.utexas.edu


The answer to this question is probably very easy and I'm just missing
something.  I want transfer (record) some sounds from a DAT to the 
SGI at school.  However, I want to do it through the Digital ins and
outs of the respective machines.  I've got the cable situation working
ok and have done DAT to DAT transfers, so the only question is what
program or command is needed to do this on the SGI.  I also need to
be able to save each soundfile in a way that they can be transfered and
manipulated individually. Thanks for any answers.  The e-mail address
above works or a follow-up to this news group.  Thanks. 
CPM
From: laut@alien.gici.com (Bill Laut)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Solitaire-8 and Indigo?
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:41:38 GMT
Organization: Gull Island Consultants, Inc.



	Can a Solitaire-8 Image Recorder from Management Graphics, Inc. be
plugged into an SGI Indigio?  The Solitaire-8 uses a GPIB-488 buss, and
requires that the sending device by able to maintain a sustained rate of
at least 250KB/second.

	Please e-mail to the address below.  Thanks!

-- 
Bill Laut			Internet:  laut@alien.gici.com
Gull Island Consultants, Inc.	Phone:     (616) 780-3321
P.O. Box 627
Muskegon, MI  49440		>> "Usual disclaimers, apply within" <<
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: "peter shirley" <shirley@death.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: large screen graphics for Irises?
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:28:00 -0500

We have funds to purchase a large (2-4M pixel) screen color 
monitor for graphics, VR, and vis. research.  

We had been looking at hooking up a Sony 2Kx2K pixel monitor to an SGI 
crimson through a metheus framebuffer.  Sony keeps mumbling that SGI 
might support their large monitor directly, but that still seems a ways 
off.  So, we're not too sure about the Sony monitor, especially since it
isn't fast enough for stereo and it is VERY expensive.  

Therefore, we were quite intrigued when,
Brian McClendon (bam@sgi.com) said:
> They actually don't have to spend any extra money.  We're shipping
> a nice Hitachi 21" multi-sync (640x480 -> HDTV -> 1600x1200 and everything
> in between) with every RE system sold.

THis is the first we've heard of this -- we didn't see it SIGGRAPH this 
summer.  Does anyone have any experience or information (model #) about 
this new monitor?  with very other large monitors and SGIs?  

Thanks,

Peter Shirley (shirley@cs.indiana.edu)
Greg Shannon  (shannon@cs.indiana.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: bbesler@ouchem.chem.oakland.edu (Brent H. Besler)
Subject: Configuring slip
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:23:09 GMT

I have two sgi's linked by a slip connection runing Irix 4.04.

One which only has the modem link end is wizard.chem.wayne.edu(IP
141.217.26.105).  The other is mobashery.chem.wayne.edu(IP
141.217.26.104) which has an internet link and the other end of the
modem link(through which slip runs).  I can telnet, ftp, ping etc. between
the two machines, but can't access wizard from any other  internet host
and can only telnet from wizard to mobashery.  WHich route commands or
what do I need to do to advertise the link to the rest of the internet?
The IP address of the gateway which link the chemistry ethernet of which
mobashery, but wizard is not a part is 141.217.26.1.  Again wizard is
connected only through a slip link to mobashery.
From: feil@prl.philips.nl (Hans feil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: explorer: combine mopac & ball-stick ??
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:39:30 GMT
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Netherlands

I recently received a CD-ROM with a wealth of new explorer modules
and maps. Included is a 'mopac' map with a module named mopac_view.
It generates a lattice that is analyzed e.g. with isosurface and
off course rendered with 'render'.
Mopac is used e.g. to analyze electron density of a molecule. The 
electron density is shown in render but you never know where the atoms
of the molecule are (=position of the nuclei).
In order to know where the atoms are, I used the chemistry map wich
read a .PDB file with atom coordinates, makes a ball&stick model and
renders it with 'render'.
Now I combined the mopac map with the ball&stick and use the same
'render' module to render both simultaneously. Unfortunately the two
representations of the same molecule are twisted. They do not overlap.

Does anyone knows a trick that solve this problem??

Any help is welcome.

Hans Feil
Philips Research Labs
Eindhoven
The Netherlands
feil@prl.philips.nl
From: kbornhor@caravaggio.helios.nd.edu (keith bornhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: protect except for one other person
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:55:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Oct12.165532.18686
Reply-To: kbornhor@caravaggio.helios.nd.edu (keith bornhorst)
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

Yes, you can...

Use the "fs setacl" command:

fs setacl -dir DIRECTORY -acl PERSON rlw

for DIRECTORY insert the name of the directory (you need to be one branch up
your directory tree)

for PERSON insert the users name

Hope that helps!

-Keith Bornhorst
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Indigo/R4k - Max Memory
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 05:45:38 GMT

In <1992Oct11.021803.23265@eng.ufl.edu> jmc@crow.eel.ufl.edu (Jim Callahan) writes:

| I recall reading that the Indigo/R4k could hold up to 96MB memory. Is
| this maximum based on the current SIMM size (which will increase in the
| future) or is the limitation due to some other cause?  If the former is
| true, does this mean that larger memory sizes will be possible in the
| future?

96 based on SIMMs that we currently sell (only 3 banks, 32 MB each).
The current OS supports 128 MB, and the version due out sometime around
the end of the year takes it to 256 MB (I've just finished coding most
of the changes).  We ultimately will support 384 MB, but not until the
next major OS release, because there are some messy issues in terms of
OS changes.  That release is sometime in 93.

| Also, could someone post the specs for native SGI memory as a
| guideline to third party memory compatability?  I have been following
| the discussion of third party memory but it would be helpful to have
| that discussion summarized and condensed into something digestable by
| the masses.

Basicly the r4k Indigo memory is similar to (at least some of)
the PS/2 memory.  Current SIMMs are 4 or 8 MB each (16MB or 32MB
per bank).  We purchased some memory for testing that (with 16 Mbit
chips) cost about $16,000 US for 256 MB.  What price we will ship 
*qualified* memory for, I have no idea, nor could I speak for
the 3rd party companies.

To quote Steve Valin (one of the hardware engineeers) from several
months ago:

| 72 pin SIMMs.  Same as PS/2 and HP Vectra.  Any 80ns, 72 pin, 36bit wide
| SIMMs should work (especially ones with Toshiba DRAM, the model used to
| design the DRAM controller).  Of course, only SIMMs bought thru SGI are
| guaranteed to work %^>
--
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
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:31:30 EDT
From: <KJB6@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,psu.comp.sgi
Subject: INFO ON MODEM CONNECTIONS


Could someone please e-mail me what is needed to properly set up a modem
for both dialing and dialing out?

I seemed to have lost my notes.....

Thanks,

Ken
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: hostname change causes problems
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:06:50 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Oct9.200233.18103@agouron.com> kupec@agouron.com (John W. Kupec) writes:

| Summary:  I've changed the hostname of a machine and it now
| 	  is having problems with net services.
| 
| Description:  Machine was originally called "mred".  All remote
| 	services in/out (rsh, rlogin, etc.) and automounter
| 	worked fine.  Machine name since changed to "MrEd".  Now
| 	"MrEd" can't start automounter or other services.

Do you perhaps have /usr/usr/resolv.conf present, and configured
to use DNS ahead of nis and the local hosts file?  If so, does
'nslookup MrEd' find the IP address?  If you are using DNS, and
DNS can't find it, that might explain the problem.  I can't think
of anything else.  Of course, it would take a broken DNS implementation
to find mred and not MrEd, but anything is possible...
--
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
From: pat@mercury.aichem.arizona.edu (Pat Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: How to install accounting under irix 4.0.1
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:55:15 GMT
Reply-To: pat@mercury.aichem.arizona.edu (Pat Walters)
Organization: University of Arizona, AICHEM

--
Can someone tell me which subsets need to be loaded from the 
CD-ROM in order to use accounting under irix 4.0.1.

Currently /usr/lib/acct contains only a dodisk directory 
which is empty.

Many thanks in advance,

Pat

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