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18 April 2025
- 05:0305:03, 18 April 2025 Indy Power Supply Information (hist | edit) [3,416 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This page serves to document the SGI Indy PSU in detail. This article relies heavily on information from SGUG forum user "Elf" who made a post in 2019 about this. Unfortunately, Elf later chose to remove his work. Raion, the author of this version, has done his best to recreate the necessary bits, here, while respecting Elf's wishes. == Physical Specifications == TThe Indy power supply is a hefty unit weighing in at just under 2kg on average. {| class="wikitable" ! col...") Tag: Visual edit
1 March 2025
- 19:5219:52, 1 March 2025 Firewire (hist | edit) [1,079 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Firewire''', officially '''IEEE 1394''', is an interface standard similar to SCSI and primarily was a competitor of USB. It is known for having high speeds and was developed by Apple as a replacement for the bulky and unwieldy parallel SCSI in wide use in the 1980s and 1990s. It achieved widespread success in niche consumer markets but never fully displaced USB in any area. == Differences from USB == Firewire does not use hubs and host controllers, instead operating...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 19:2019:20, 1 March 2025 IRIX Gigabit Card Hack (hist | edit) [1,089 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "IRIX OEM gigabit cards command a premium online, often over $100USD. However, with a bit of engineering it's possible to modify cards using the Broadcom BCM5704 chipset to appear as SGI ethernet cards P/N 9210289. To do so, install the card in a GNU/Linux machine with an open PCI-X slot, and use ethtool:<pre> ethtool -E (interface) magic 0x669955aa offset 0xa4 value 0x80 ethtool -E (interface) magic 0x669955aa offset 0xa5 value 0x13 ethtool -E (interface) magic 0x66995...") Tag: Visual edit
28 February 2025
- 02:1102:11, 28 February 2025 VLSI (hist | edit) [541 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Category: Technologies")
27 February 2025
- 16:4616:46, 27 February 2025 IRIX 6.0 and 6.1 (hist | edit) [513 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "IRIX 6.0 was introduced based on IRIX 5.2 code for the R8000 systems in late 1994. 6.0.1 was a point release with upgrades from 5.3, and 6.1 was a further refinement. Again, these were only designed for the R8000 systems, referred to as "Power" systems. 6.1 is notable for releasing XFS, the filesystem that replaced EFS. == Additional Information == IRIX 6.1 in particular released an experimental version of the N32 ABI, replacing the O32 which was originally designe...") Tag: Visual edit
- 04:3004:30, 27 February 2025 NUMALink (hist | edit) [841 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''NUMAlink''' is a high-speed low-latency computer bus used a single system image interconnection in Silicon Graphics computer systems. == History == Three generations of NUMALink were shipped by Silicon Graphics, with Rackable Systems acquiring the technology later. === CrayLink/NUMALink 2 === SGI acquired Cray Research in 1996 and branded the interconnect CrayLink for the Origin 200, Origin 2000, and Onyx2. It uses the HUB ASIC and has a maximu...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
26 February 2025
- 20:0320:03, 26 February 2025 Porting Software to IRIX (hist | edit) [3,905 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Porting software to IRIX can seem like a massive task, and while it is, it's not impossible even for a beginner. == Getting Started == Make sure the machine is up to the task of installation. Compiling produces a lot of heat, wears hard disks and stresses system resources. Recommended specs to build: * CPU: Building on anything slower than an R5000 at 150MHz can be painful. But most packages can be built in parallel, so seek out an Origin 200, dual CPU Octane,...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 04:2504:25, 26 February 2025 SSH for IRIX (hist | edit) [807 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "IRIX shipped with an old version of OpenSSH but this is unsuitable due to lacking ciphers compatible with modern SSH servers and clients. There are two options for SSH on IRIX 6.5, and potentially one for 6.2. == IRIX 6.5 - Options == There are two options for SSH on IRIX: '''OpenSSH:''' Packaged by SGUG '''Dropbear SSH:''' Packaged in Optxeno and slated for Nekoware 2025 === Why to reconsider OpenSSH === OpenSSH is first and foremost, an OpenBSD project, and mo...") Tag: Visual edit
- 02:3902:39, 26 February 2025 Optxeno (hist | edit) [509 bytes] Raion (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Optxeno is a setup for MIPS IV (and in the future, MIPSIII) that is developed by Raion to provide the following facilities for IRIX devs: An SSH client (dropbear) A downloader (ncftp) Awk and sed from gnu GNU diff bzip2, zlib and xz GNU iconv tcl/tk expect/dejagnu (for GCC/GNU binutils projects) Python 2.8 (Tauthon, a compatible Python interpreter) genidb (a tool for generating idb files) Without requiring a full package of software ala Nekoware. It is a m...") Tag: Visual edit