Are there drivers for new Panasonic DVD-RAM drve for SGI?

Also, can a DVD-ROM on PC or TV box read a DVD-RAM recorded disc?

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Duff Hendrickson   Seattle

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http://www.eskimo.com/~duffcool
Duff Hendrickson   Seattle

Has anyone programmatically interfaced a Pluto Space with an SGI to do
the following functions :

1. play, stop, etc (deck control) functions
2. transfer of frames to and from the device

Is there any available API from Plutotech to facilitate this? Without
these controls (and therefore using system calls to do rsh "command"),
the whole thing is so excruciatingly slow. Bet even controlling the Mars
pathfinder from earth has better response times.

regards,

Amey Laud

al…@Post1.com

Hi there, I don’t think I put this message in the right area, but any help
would be appreciated. I have just been volunteered to upgrade all of our 02
workstations to IRIX 6.5 (because of Y2K I’m told) and to install Softimage
3.8. The problem I am running across is since these machine had been
installed in 1998, no one has ever wiped out all of the files so I don’t
know where all the wasted hard drive space is. We just want a clean system
and start fresh because we teach students on these machines and need all the
hard drive space possible. I have alot of WinNT, Win9x and MAC tech
experience, but not alot of UNIX experience. So I am not sure of all the
file systems.

I was wondering if there is a way to wipe the drives clean before we do an
install of IRIX 6.5? If not, is there a guide of what files and folders I
can clean out. I have upgraded a system successfully from 6.3 to 6.5 but
like I said, there is still alot of wasted hard drive space, and I don’t
know where these files are hidden. Also, I was wondering, is there a UNIX
command to run a defrag program? Because the students do alot of rendering
of 3D, we have found that the hard drive could use some maintenence.

Thanks again,
Carmine Sirignano
csiri…@home.com

I have an Indy r5000 and a iomega Zip plus+ (par+Scsi)
it has the DB25 connector and auotsenses if it is being pluged into a
Parallel or Scsi.
I figure if I get an adapter I can plug it into the Scsi and get it to work,
but has anyone every got a Zip to work thru the Parallel port???

Hi,

Question: does anyone have experience with WinNT utility programs on the SGI
320′s? defraggers, program uninstallers, registry repair programs, etc.

Curious if anyone has run Norton utilities, Executive Software Diskeeper  or
the Mijenix FixIt programs.

Any info on this topic much appreciated – haven’t loaded these programs on yet
– just thought I’d see what other peoples experice has been before I take the
plunge.

Thanks

Bob

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Robert Kurhajetz

Hello, a while ago I was after a way to upgrade my Personal Iris 4D/20
from its current 8-bit graphics, GR1.2 (Entry Graphics) to 24-bits or
24-bits + Zbuffer. A fellow from the newsgroups has the following boards
for sale:

030-8003-001  BP4  Bit Plane Board (HU-4D20G2)
030-8004-003  ZB3  Z-Buffer Board
030-8031-001  GR1.5  Graphics Board

These specs he got from http://www.mce.com. Can someone here on this
group tell me if any or which combination of these boards will suit my
upgrade requirements? If yes, what, briefly is the procedure for
installation of such board(s)?

Thanks in advance, Harry.

Being the glutton for punishment I am, I decided to attempt to port the
irix-dtrrts driver (by Shawn Pearce, available from his web site at
http://www.spearce.org/projects/irix-dtrrts/ ) to IRIX 6.5.  Can I do it?
Heck if I know, but I’m going to try since if nothing else I’m learning a
lot about IRIX driver programming.  I’ve got a couple problems though and
I’m wondering if someone can help me out.

(I apologize if my questions sound like they’re written by a village idiot
attempting to learn quantum physics.  Writing drivers is extremely new to
me, and I’m sort of learning about it as I go along.  But hey, it’s my
machine, and I can break it if I want to.)

1) The original code uses sio_getport(), which doesn’t exist in IRIX 6.5.
   It was suggested that device_info_get() is probably what would be used
   here, but from what I can tell device_info_get() is for use with things
   that have an entry in the hwgraph.  Would something like this really
   need a hwgraph entry?  Because from what I’ve read so far, to make a
   hwgraph entry, it sounds like I should be using an attach(), but I
   can’t see how I’d get an attach() to work with the onboard serial
   ports.

2) Could someone send me a copy of a man page for sio_getport()?  I don’t
   have one, and I’m not sure I’m headed in the right direction with
   device_info_get() as a substitute since I don’t exactly know what
   sio_getport() did or how it did it.

3) Do the magical serial port structures used with this driver in IRIX 6.3
   even exist in the same form under IRIX 6.5?  Because if they’ve
   changed, and I can’t find out what they changed to, it seems like
   there’s no point in continuing with the project.

Thanks to anyone who can help.  I’m trying my best to hack my way through
this, and it’s quite a learning experience.  Definitely new to me.

                                                                Bryan

I am looking for an inexpensive SGI Indy with monitor and OS on CD’s. If you have one for sale please email me with the price you are looking for. Thanks.

T.J. Patterson
(remove the ‘NOSPAM’ from email address to reply!)

HI,
I am a third year electrical engineering do a final year project on Radio
Frequency Tag!!!
So if anyone of you have info on it or is selling the Radio Frequency Tag,
please contact me!!!!
I also need the specifications, the brand……etc.

We have a budget for our project.

Thanks

Signed:
Joseph

I recently bought an Indigo II.  It came with IRIX 5.3
installed…it’s a 200mhz R4400 with 1mb cache, XZ graphics, 128mb
RAM.  What I was wondering – is it worth it to upgrade to 6.5, and
better yet, can I?  Can the Indigo II handle the latest version of
IRIX?  I’d rather not have the machine run as slow as molasses if I
can help it.

-Justin