[rescue] SGI I2 Impact rather cheap on eBay

[Matthew Haas]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:
>
> >    What?!  No way.  I've put dozens (literally) of completely random
> > SCSI drives in Indigo^2 and Indy machines with excellent
> > results...Never a problem.  I'm quite sure that NONE of them had
> > SGI-related firmware.
> >
>
> Same here, as long as it works on a Sun amchine, it should work on an SGI
> machine - at least in my experience.  Nary a problem, as long as you set the
> sector size correctly.
>

 Are you talking about CD-ROMs or hard drives? Don't both Suns & SGIs use
512-byte blocks on their hard drives? (I thought only some IBM machines
used some odd-ball 520- or 480-byte block size, everyone else was pretty
uniform).

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