I have a R3000 Indigo which is about 18 months old and
stopped running a week ago.  The symptoms were simple; it
simply turned off and would not come back on.  We diagnosed
the problem by phone with SGI techs as a power supply
problem and replaced that.   Although the system would now
turn on, the system disk was unrecognizable and did not seem
to be spinning.  That is currently in the shop for repair.  
While awaiting its return, I have been trying to imagine
scenarios which would have caused this failure and need some
help.

1. There could be some sort of board or backplane problem.
   However, I am able to get a sash window using the CDROM.
2. The power supply may have taken out the disk when it
    failed.
3. The disk failed and took the power supply.
4. The new power supply is providing a faulty voltage which
   destroyed the disk when it first tried to boot.

It is this last scenario which I am most concerned about at
the moment.  I would prefer not to insert my repaired drive,
only to have it taken out again!  

Question to some of you tech people:  Is there a way I can
insert a voltmeter someplace to check out voltages to the
drive? Where and what should I read?  This question is
precipitated by Olsen’s comment a couple of days ago
relating a disk failure to faulty voltages.

Phil Bays
pb…@saintmarys.edu

I need to configure an HP DAT drive so that it won’t disconnect
from the SCSI bus on a non-word boundary.  Anybody know how?  The
documentation that came with it describes the function of only a
few of the dip switches.  Also, I had to disable synchronous mode
negotiation on the host (an SGI machine) as there seems to be some
incompatability there.  Any ideas on how to make it work correctly?

My research group’s 4D/35 Personal Iris has aquired some new noises in
the last couple of days.  Its not the internal hard drive, and its not
the fan.  The sound is coming from deep inside the case, and started
out as a continuous hissing sound that sort of came and went over
periods of several minutes.  The hissing sound is still there, but now
there is another sound that sort of sounds like a small motor that is
rotating quite fast.

I’ve already backed things up in preparation for a crash.  Does anyone have
an idea what could be causing this, and how serious it is?

   Thanks in advance,
       Andy
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In article <hauj…@twilight.wpd.sgi.com> (comp.sys.sgi.hardware), rog…@kuhio.wpd.sgi.com (Roger Chickering) writes:

>>We have a (garyscale) OneScanner, presently connected to our
>>(braindamaged) Mac. The scanner is an SCSI device.
>>I’m ready to write some code for this. Are there any sample drivers,
>>that can be modified? What literature do I need to read to be able to
>>write (or modify) a scanner driver (once I know assembler)?

Wow, that will be >great<. I’m using the Apple Color OneScanner on a
Mac now, but being able to use it directly on the SGI will be fantastic.

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We just aquired a IRIS 2400 Turbo, however we were told that it is not
working.  Don’t know why … but help is badly need as we want to get
this beast running!

There is a status display at the back, a single digit numeric LED, it
counts displays F then 6 then 5 then stops.  Is this the power on diag?
Should it go to 0?

We are also missing the keyboard cable.  There is a box that is suppose to
go between the keyboard and the CPU box, but we do know know what the cables
are suppose to look like..
Does any one have the pin outs on this?

Does any one have a manual?  hee hee
We are in the Toronto area and can travel … hint hint

Can we get any information by FTP?

Thanx very much for any info of any type for this machine.

We have a Spectragraphics dials that we would like to get it to work on our
SGI workstation. It is sort of working but not correctly. I am using GL to
program the dials. When i tried to qread the dial, i get "DIALS INITIALIZED
ERROR" or something to that effect. I also get unexpected value 06 received.
What i suspect is the dial driver on GL is expecting a different value when
the dial is initialized. The spectragraphics dials acknowledged with a 06
when initialized. I think the GL dial driver expect 20 to be returned.
Also it looks like when the driver tried to reinitialized the dials when the
expected valued is not returned. So i get the above error messages for a while
(about 1 minute) before the error messages stopped. Then everything seems to
be working as normal , ie i can turn which ever dial and the software will
tell me which dial was turned and the value moved. Is there anyway of forcing
GL driver to accept a different value ? or just ignored the returned initialized
value ? any help appreciated .

thanks
Tiong

I am just about to spend a few $$ for a R3k Indigo, but I’d like to
make sure I’m not spending all that money for something I don’t really
need.

Put simply, all I want is a terminal I can connect to our Crimson so
2 users can work on it (on applications like explorer, CASEVision, etc.).
This pretty much rules out the X terminal option (since it doesn’t support
GL apps). I contacted SGI, and they suggested 2 options:

        1 – a refurbished PI,  OR
        2 – a R3k Indigo

I decided the 2nd option was the best one, but another question popped
to my mind when I saw an article about IRIS terminals (Toshiba, I
believe). So here’s my question:

–> could I buy a terminal that could be connected to the Crimson (I don’t
    really need another workstation (but that’s what I’ll buy if the
    price of a terminal is in the same range as that of an Indigo…), i.e.
    a "client" console?

–> if so, what brands are available? Does SGI sell terms without a system?

Thanks in advance for all replies.
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We’ve got a 4D/360 with the monitor at the end of 75 feet of cable –
the longest run SGI "allows", and needed to keep people from going
bonkers from all the noise from the fans.

With the cables terminated, we get a nice crisp display – but it’s
so fain it’s hard to see with the room lights on.  If I hit the
termination switches then the brightness is fine, but I get ghosts
displaced by about 7mm from the main image.

Obviously, I’d like the brightness of the unterminated state with the
clean image of the terminated state.

So, is there an internal video gain control somewhere I can twiddle
to bring the signal levels up?  And can it be twiddled successfully
without a room full of test equipment?  I’m willing to diddle either
inside the monitor or on the graphics board – whichever is easier.

FYI, GTX graphics and Genlock board in the 360, and the monitor is
*not* by Hitachi – at least the only labels on it are SGI labels, and
the mfg date is July 1990.

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Are there any 2nd source FDDI/CDDI Interfaces for Indigo available?
Experiences, suppliers, prices, german (european) distributors?

Thanks!
Peter
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Does anyone out there have any recommendations for optical scanners to be
hooked up to an SGI R3000?

I have been looking around and have found that I could get an HP ScanJet
IIc for about $1200 with a discount, but it is not clear if I can use this
on the R3000s.  I may have to run it on a PC-clone and transfer the files
to the SGI.  

The intial use for the scanner would be scanning in Air Photos for an Air
Photo interpretation class.  We hope then to use the raster-images with a
Geographical Information Systems package GRASS to integrate the air photos
with more traditional information about a particular site.

Requirements are that it do color, that it have a 400 dpi optical
resolution and preferably that it can be hooked directly to an R3000.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Tim Ward                                                        
t…@nwu.edu
Systems Administrator
Civil Engineering         McCormick School of Engineering and Applied
Science
Northwestern University                                          Evanston,
IL