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0 pointsrngfnby1mo ago0 comments

I think the problem was that the machines were always very expensive, even used.

My Fuel has an SSD and Id use it daily except:

- It's loud

- It's single core

- It's a furnace

- It's very very loud

It has a fairly modern Emacs, ssh and a non distracting UX. The browser is the only real thing that is too old to be useful, feature and performance wise, but that's just bonus points productivity wise (besides, rdesktop into a modern machine and you can watch youtube)

If I had a 900 MHz O2 loaded with RAM, and an SSD (SCSI SSD, ha!) it'd probably be my daily driver.

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theodric1mo ago

I have a 600MHz RM7k O2, and my 700MHz R16k Fuel blows it out of the water. The O2 isn't that quiet or that quick even with upgrades!

What SSD are you running? I'm still on 10k SCSI drives selected for the quietness of their bearings.

rngfnbyOP1mo ago

Right now I cant get to the machine (off, in the basement) but it is some run-of-the-mill SATA drives using a SATA expansion card.

It works great but I just use it for /opt since I ran out time to move more of the machine into it.

You cant boot off the SSD, so I still use a SCSI but you can replace that too if you boot the SGI off the network.

Silent SGI:

Having gotten rid of the SCSI drives completely w/ the network boot, you can put a modern, more silent, PSU [1] (but hurry, ones w/ enough current on 5V (?) are rare), and then replace the GPU and CPU fans and turn of environmental monitoring.

[1] i had to replace mine; my 500 MHz Fuel is notorious for bad psu

ThatGuyRaion1mo ago

Do not turn off environmental monitoring. That's for debugging only. That's how people are cooking the video cards. Please get your fuel /properly/ repaired by say weblacky on irixnet. The reason why? With env monitoring off, the system won't respond to overheating on the graphics card and it'll cook it alive. The fuel has notoriously bad airflow (air doesn't move right angles)

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ThatGuyRaion1mo ago

You could use the NVME driver to load the filesystem and boot the kernel diskless...

Aldipower1mo ago

Yes, I have a restored Indigo 2. I fixed at lot of things in the PSU.

And yes:

- It's loud

- It's single core

- It's a furnace

- It's very very loud

:-D

ThatGuyRaion1mo ago

I keep my Challenge S running 24/7 :)

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0 pointsrngfnby1mo ago0 comments

I think the problem was that the machines were always very expensive, even used.

My Fuel has an SSD and Id use it daily except:

- It's loud

- It's single core

- It's a furnace

- It's very very loud

If I had a 900 MHz O2 loaded with RAM, and an SSD (SCSI SSD, ha!) it'd probably be my daily driver.

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theodric1mo ago

I have a 600MHz RM7k O2, and my 700MHz R16k Fuel blows it out of the water. The O2 isn't that quiet or that quick even with upgrades!

What SSD are you running? I'm still on 10k SCSI drives selected for the quietness of their bearings.

rngfnbyOP1mo ago

Right now I cant get to the machine (off, in the basement) but it is some run-of-the-mill SATA drives using a SATA expansion card.

It works great but I just use it for /opt since I ran out time to move more of the machine into it.

You cant boot off the SSD, so I still use a SCSI but you can replace that too if you boot the SGI off the network.

Silent SGI:

[1] i had to replace mine; my 500 MHz Fuel is notorious for bad psu

ThatGuyRaion1mo ago

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ThatGuyRaion1mo ago

You could use the NVME driver to load the filesystem and boot the kernel diskless...

Aldipower1mo ago

Yes, I have a restored Indigo 2. I fixed at lot of things in the PSU.

And yes:

- It's loud

- It's single core

- It's a furnace

- It's very very loud

:-D

ThatGuyRaion1mo ago

I keep my Challenge S running 24/7 :)

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