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I've always been a Sun fan myself, having had a few different Ultras over the years (none right now) but always loves the looks of those purple SGIs.
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srosefx wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:52 pm Hey, im also an Octane owner! I have version 1 and 2, I picked up the second one from a Digital house, came with full ram and a v12 odyssey board.
im having issues with getting Irix installed as they don't have a cd rom drive. and im lacking some scsi adapters to get the Sun external DVD rom drive hooked up and communicating with the octane.
IRIX on all the other machines is a breeze compared to the Octane.

I was very close to buying an Onyx 2..but the price turned me off, and it was a rckmounted beast with an origin 2000 on top, the thing weighed 60kg.

my fave though is the purple Indigo 2 I have. just such a lovely looking machine, the Iris gets too much praise as the better looking machine but I don't think so.

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Luckily I have a full set of install CDs and an external SGI drive as well. Turns out that it really doesn't like other drives!! I did have a running Indy once too and ended up getting rid of it, something that I have kicked myself for ever since. I'd love other machines, but they're just too expensive these days.

I got the SE graphics and install media here: http://sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/partsspares.html
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PhilC wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 10:18 pm I've always been a Sun fan myself, having had a few different Ultras over the years (none right now) but always loves the looks of those purple SGIs.
Damn you, I kind of want a Sun now....
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trixster wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:39 pm Loving that you've got dual cpus! I'd love a dual cpu module for my octane!
And 2GB ram too. I expect this machine cost rather a lot when new!! Will try the hinv -m thing.
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trixster wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:13 pm Looking at this link, I think you have an SI or SE board without texture memory

https://bukosek.si/hardware/collection/sgi-octane.html
Nice link, I agree. Wonder how many kidneys I'd need to sell to get the texture RAM?
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rubber_jonnie wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 10:30 pm

Nice link, I agree. Wonder how many kidneys I'd need to sell to get the texture RAM?
they seem to be £125 on SGIDepot
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trixster wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 10:41 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 10:30 pm

Nice link, I agree. Wonder how many kidneys I'd need to sell to get the texture RAM?
they seem to be £125 on SGIDepot
Bit more than I want to spend on it just now, but I may revisit.

Here is hinv -mvv BTW:

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Also tested the PSU, CPU board and graphics card from my second machine last night, PSU and CPU were good, but graphics board seems to be dead. More investigations required.
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@rubber_jonnie If you feel like parting out the second Octane I know @trixster is on the lookout for a dual-cpu module & more ram :)
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Steve wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:22 am @rubber_jonnie If you feel like parting out the second Octane I know @trixster is on the lookout for a dual-cpu module & more ram :)
2nd machine is unfortunately single CPU, I 'think' an R12000, just trying to figure that out. At present I will likely hold onto it to try and repair first and foremost, and secondly as a backup parts machine.

Need to try and get hinv out of that machine if I can. The single CPU module works in my other chassis so will see if I can get into the PROM setup and do that.
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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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Hinv from the other board:

IMG_20210916_102205.jpg
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So not the R12000 I thought. Need to verify the XBOW I think as well now I know the CPU is good, PSU is good and graphics isn't.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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