| To: | adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca |
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| Subject: | Re: Some simple hardware questions... |
| From: | Bob Mende Pie <mende@piecomputer.engr.sgi.com> |
| Date: | Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:48:06 -0700 (PDT) |
| Cc: | linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <Pine.LNX.3.95.970624123035.406E-100000@lager.engsoc.carleton.ca> (message from Alex deVries on Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:38:39 -0400 (EDT)) |
| Sender: | owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
> 1. Do Indy's come equipped with floppy drives? What are they? Is it
> possible to boot from them?
There is an option on indy's that allow for a SCSI iomega floptical (21MB)
drive. These drives are treated as a removable SCSI disk. You should be
able to boot from them but I have never tried.
> 2. I know O2's have PCI busses with a custom controller. Do Indy's have
> this too? What is the name of this controller? It would seem reasonably
> easy to slap a PCI VGA card in there and port XFree86 to run on it.
The indy does not have PCI. They use a gio bus.
> 3. Do Indy's ship with CDROMs?
As an option there is an external CDROM. I believe that (nowadays) you
have to really try to get a system without a cdrom.
/Bob... mailto:mende@sgi.com
http://reality.sgi.com/mende/ KF6EID
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