Alex deVries wrote:
>
> I have some ultra simple hardware questions that I couldn't
> find answers to. Excuse the noviceness of it all, I haven't
> touched SGI hardware in quite some time.
>
> 1. Do Indy's come equipped with floppy drives? What are they?
> Is it possible to boot from them?
>
Oh no :-) No, Indys don't come usually with floppys. We
offer a 20MB Floptical option (internal), or a normal floppy
option (external). Both are not really popular with our customers.
You might be able to boot from them, but this was probably never
tested...
> 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.
>
No, Indy comes with our proprietary GIO bus. The GFX cards (8/24)
plug on that.
> 3. Do Indy's ship with CDROMs?
>
More often than with floppies, but it is an option. Not standard.
Martin
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