[rescue] ooh, pretty

[nick at snowman.net]

According to an SGI guru I was talking to there was a mythical R8k prom
that would boot impact gfx, however I have never been able to find anyone
who's even heard of one.
	Nick

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:17:27PM +0100, Carl-Johan Schenstrom wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > 
> > >    This isn't an R10K though...this is an R8K.  R8Ks are particularly
> > > interesting processors, and machines built around them are particularly
> > > rare.
> > 
> > What graphics are supported in the I^2/R8K? Does it just depend on the PSU
> > (I seem to recall that being the case for both R4400 and R10K versions but
> > please correct me if I'm wrong!) or are there any limitations in the
> > slots/case/whatever?
> 
> My understanding is that there is no way to make impact graphics and the
> r8k play together.
> 
> But, for r4.4k and r10k machines, my understanding is that impact
> graphics is just a PSU swap away (and I hear an OS reload is
> recommended). 
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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