I would like to run an Indigo with a modem (used for dialin/out) as
simultaneous FAX machine: Need a FAX software for send and receive.
Any pointers, hints etc appreciated – sorry if this is a FAQ – in
particular on whether there are MOFTIF applications available with
generic interface and could also run on other hardware.

Regards
Reinhard

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Hello all!

Is it possible to take a Macintosh hard drive (most probabily
SCSI-1 drive) and hook it to an Indigo? Is the reverse possible
too?

I have heard that the system boot disk for some Indogoes is a
Seagate ST1280N. I have called Seagate to get specs about it…
but they said they had nothing on the darn thing… But when I
have asked about the ST1480N… ahhh! they had plenty about it!
(info that is!). Could anyone tell me the specs about that drive?
Would it still be possible to put such a drive in a Macintosh? (It
is possible to put an ST1480N in it)? Would I be able to put a
Quantum LPS210 in the Indigo?

Thanks in advance,

Richard Soubyran

    We have an Indigo R4000-Elan with a floppy and two disk drives mounted
    in the slots….    When i tried adding two more drives (older units
    from my old 4D/35) to the external SCSI….one of the drives failed
    to mount (no label…so fx said…).

    if i pull out one of the internal drives …i can then mount the outside
    drives fine….

    Is there a limit to how many drives i can have on my indigo?  

    mjz

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Hello there,
we have a 4D-220VGX equipped with a spaceball. Under 3.x there was a program
called spaceballd that handled that device. You also could use the
spaceball as a mouse (i.e. move the mouse cursor using the spaceball) and
do such things as calibrating it and so on.

After having installed 4.0 (currently 4.0.5) emulating the mouse doesn’t
work anymore. However, that is merely annoying. My question is why I find the
following messages in SYSLOG:
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: WARNING: data event with unknown format.
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix:
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix:
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: WARNING: unexpected byte 0xA3 in packed mode
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix:
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix:
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix: WARNING: Bad length for data event (0 words)
Dec 28 12:00:43 gt unix:

They seem to occur every time I use the spaceball (from a locally written
application that uses the spaceball since 3.X days). Has the format of
spaceball events changed ?
I also noticed that there is a rather long delay (1-2 sec) between moving
the spaceball and seeing the result on screen. That was not the case
under 3.X
Thanks for any hints,

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   Rainer Kleinrensing,    rai…@indigo.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
   Institute for Applied Mathematics
   Freiburg University

Hello,
After christmas we found that our 4D-220VGX had crashed in a mysterious way:
many programs of the OS could not be found any more, we had to reload
the root partition from the last backup. In SYSLOG there were the following
messages:
Dec 27 03:13:19 gt unix: WARNING: dma_map: address not word aligned
Dec 27 03:13:19 gt unix: sc0,1,0: cmd=0×28 disconnected on non-word boundary (ad
dr=C046AE4F, 0×0 left)
Dec 27 03:13:21 gt unix: .  Resetting SCSI bus
Dec 27 03:13:21 gt unix: dks0d3s0 (/usr): retrying request
Dec 27 03:13:21 gt unix: dks0d1s6 (/usr/amandus): retrying request

(repeated several times) and

Dec 27 05:02:12 gt unix: dks0d1s0 (/): Directory 13 is corrupted (4d)
Dec 27 05:02:13 gt unix: dks0d1s0 (/): inum: 19 illegal number of indirect exten
ts
Dec 27 05:02:13 gt unix:
Dec 27 05:02:13 gt unix: dks0d1s0 (/): inum: 20 illegal number of indirect exten
ts

(also with some other numbers instead of 19,20)

After restoring the backup everything worked just fine. However, a few
minutes ago I saw
Jan  1 05:00:15 gt unix: dks0d1s6 (/usr/amandus): inum: 1724 illegal number of i
ndirect extents
Jan  1 05:00:15 gt unix:
Jan  1 05:00:16 gt unix: dks0d1s6 (/usr/amandus): inum: 1725 illegal number of i
ndirect extents

in SYSLOG. Is this just a sign of the disk going bad (I admit it’s no SGI disk,
but has workes flawlessly for at least 3 years now) or did we
inadvertently make some configuration or software error ?

Thanks very much for any hints,

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   Rainer Kleinrensing,    rai…@indigo.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
   Institute for Applied Mathematics
   Freiburg University

I configured a modem to be available for both dial in/out.

If I kill the connection by just interrupting the line on the client side who
dialed in to the indigo, the connection breaks but the process of the
client does not. This causes the console to throw out a dozen
bufcall: could not allocate stream event
messages, and then, hundreds of
select: Resource temporarily unavailable
messages which go away only if I kill the residual process. This means
that the poor indigo slows down so much that normal editing is a pain if
the problem occurs.

The gettydefs file reads:
bx_38400# B38400 # B38400 SANE TAB3 HUPCL  #\nlogin: #du_9600

The inittab file:
t2:23:respawn:/usr/lib/uucp/uugetty -N -i wait,conn ttyf2 bx_38400 vt100 LDISC1

The wait entry in the Dialers file:
wait =,-, "" \dATZ\r\c OK \dAT&B1\r\c OK \dATS0=4\r\c OK
i.e., I do a modem reset (Z), a baud rate setting (&B1), and set the answer
after the 4th ring (S0=4). Then I wait for the conn:
conn    =W=,    CONNECT

The modem connects fine, and has very good throughput, in 14400 bps with
error correction and compression. the 38400 bps to ttyf2 are there because
in the end I intend to run SLIP on it.

Any hints, suggestions and pointers appreciated.

Regards
Reinhard

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I just got my SGI-supported CDROM drive (part # P-CDR-1).  I notice two RCA
jacks on the back labeled "L" and "R".  Could these be left and right audio
signal outputs?  If so, can I hook them to an stereo audio amp aux inputs?

(My 4D/35 upgrade didn’t come with the audio option, so I can’t use the PI
to listen to audio CD’s with it.)

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We have a number of Ricoh IS50 scanners attached to an equal number of
4D/35s, and are having the following problem: on some of the hosts
with scanners, we get (SCSI) disk errors, and the following in the
syslog (this from a host named june):

Dec  3 09:16:35 june unix: sc0,1,0: cmd=0x2A Unexpected info phase 46, state 48.  Resetting SCSI bus
Dec  3 09:16:37 june unix: dks0d1s6 (/usr): retrying request
Dec  3 09:19:55 june unix: sc0,1,0: cmd=0x2A Unexpected info phase 46, state 48.  Resetting SCSI bus
Dec  3 09:19:56 june unix: dks0d1s6 (/usr): retrying request
Dec  3 09:21:11 june unix: sc0,1,0: cmd=0x2A timeout after 30 sec.  Resetting SCSI bus
Dec  3 09:21:12 june unix: dks0d1s6 (/usr): retrying request

If the scanner and cable is moved to another 4D/35, all is well with
both hosts.  We are using the cable SGI told us to (Qualtronix’s 8-ft.
SCSI cable part# 018-8019-008), and are terminating the bus.  Any ideas
what the cause could be?
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Hi,

        I was wondering if anyone has hooked up a Midi device to a Sgi
Workstation.  I have an EPS-16 Plus Digital Sampling Workstation that
I would like to send Midi Code to from a SGI 340 VGX.  In particular,
I need to know if I can simply send the Midi bytes down the stream to
the device.  Secondly, is there a 9 pin to 5 pin connector that will
allow me to hook up the two

Thanks
Rich
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In article <ufjc…@twilight.wpd.sgi.com>, st…@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story) writes:
|>
|> Take a look on sgi.sgi.com for the ‘flexfax’ software.  Requires 4.0.X
|> and Display PostScript.

Thaks for the pointer – I found that it also requires dwb for the man pages.
I tried to install it and it seemed to do the job. However, the faxd starting
dies immediately afterwards and tells me that it couldn’t find the uid 9999
– adding this number didn’t help either. Any suggestions to this one?

As I currently run a CLASS I fax modem per default, is there anyone out there
who has modified flexfax or can point to another package which supports
class I ?

Regards
Reinhard
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