Re: new SGI workstations/servers

smharr4_at_qwest.net
Date: 07/08/03 

Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:21:39 -0700

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Alexis Cousein wrote:

> IIRC, Octane2 P-DVDROM-EXT is one ;). That's the only one SGI will officially
> support, would be my guess, but not the only one that works ;).
>
> It also depends on your definition of "work" -- does mediad have to recognize
> everything automagically, or are you prepared to mount manually?

Being recognised by mediad would be nice, although mounting manually would
be OK.

I'm not too bothered about being able to boot from a DVD-ROM drive, as I
already have two perfectly good bootable CD-ROM drives. I did notice that
the Toshiba model does have the 512 byte block size jumper on it,
presumably setting that jumper will let you boot from a CD.

> AFAIK, the SGI drive is a 10x/40x Toshiba SCSI DVDROM (which pretty much
> narrows down which one it is), as per what it returns on a SCSI inventory
> command [hardly a trade secret, given that anyone who's bought it can
> find out with a simple command].

Yup, it's the SD-M1401.

> The Toshiba product pages for DVD-ROMs (all of them -- relationships with
> anything discussed here purely coincidental) at Toshiba:
>
> <URL:http://sdd.toshiba.com/cda/main.aspx?Path=/818100000007000000010000659800000000/81820000011d000000010000659c000003fd>
>
> No idea if Toshiba so badly messed up the firmware of the 12x/48x that it
> might not work. You're only going to get guarantees about that once
> Toshiba refuses to ship the 10x/40x drives to SGI and SGI *has* to requalify
> a newer drive ;).

Well, according to the pages on the link above the SD-M1711 doesn't have
the 512 byte jumper, only the SD-M1401 has that. If the SD-M1711 is
compatible with IRIX then it might not be possible to boot from CD.

> for what
> > machines, and in what version of IRIX will we see support for them?
> >
> Already supported. See archives about "UDF" about IRIX release necessary to make
> sense of UDF filesystems, though.

I'm running 6.5.20m, so I should be good, right? 

-- 
Steven Harrison
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