I bought this machine March 2011 as a first foray into IRIX, upgraded to a Fuel a few months later but decided to beef this up a bit as well, with:
- extra RAM, 128MB -> 384MB (I had 32MB SIMMs lying around and was lucky to find they were the right spec, plus some from Ebay seller "1-800-4-memory", whose bundle of ten 32MB SIMMs for a reasonable "best offer" was a cost-effective way of replacing eight 16MB ones),
- 6.5.22m overlays and patches from SGI supportfolio
- bigger disks, 2GB -> 9GB -> 18GB -> 36GB (the 2GB came 95% full, and the 36GB now has around 10GB free!)
- the faster CPU, 200/1MB -> 250/2MB, and
- fast ethernet: G160 (after an abortive attempt with EISA), which took more autoconfig's and reboots than I was expecting to get working.
Next? maybe a CDROM sled, as I have a spare Yamaha 8424, but it's as easy to connect that externally. Maybe it's "finished"!
hinv and gfxinfo now yield:
Code:
CPU: MIPS R4400 Processor Chip Revision: 6.0
FPU: MIPS R4000 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 0.0
1 250 MHZ IP22 Processor
Main memory size: 384 Mbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes on Processor 0
Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes
Data cache size: 16 Kbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93B, revision D
On-board serial ports: 2
On-board bi-directional parallel port
Graphics board: GU1-Extreme
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
E++ controller: ec1, version 0
Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 1.1.0
EISA bus: adapter 0
Code:
Graphics board 0 is "GR2" graphics.
Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024
8 GEs, 2 REs, 24 bitplanes, 4 auxplanes, 4 cidplanes, Z-buffer
GR2 revision 6, VB2.0
HQ2.1 rev A, GE7 rev B, RE3.1 rev A, VC1 rev B, MC rev C
unknown, assuming 19" monitor
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