[rescue] SGI I2 Impact rather cheap on eBay

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 11:22 PM, dave venable wrote:
> I just won it for about $80.

   An excellent deal.

> Anybody have a drive and sled for sale?  Will regular hds work on this
> machine, if I format them from the Irix CD? I have a CD that works on
> Sparcs, and it should work on this.

   Pretty  much any SCSI drive will be fine.  I'm currently running a 
Seagate ST39140N in my I^2.  CDROM drives, on the other hand, might be 
problematic.  I'm currently using a Plextor 12X drive, though I used a 
40X on it some time ago.  I'm told that most Plextors will work fine.

> What version of Irix is the sweet spot for this machine?

   6.5.x, the latest you can find.  You've got more than enough CPU 
oomph and RAM in there to run the recent stuff.

       -Dave

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