Nekochan Net

Thanks to Fu for the idea

Since there seem to be many rumors and myths surrounding the Fuel, let's try and get a comprehensive list of what is known to work on the red beasts. Some of this information may apply to other members of the IP35 family, but this aggregation is primarily aimed at the Fuel

Firewire PCI Boards:

- Adaptec 4300 (Red PCB)
- Belkin F5U503Vea1 (Blue PCB)
See the "Other PCI Cards" list for a FW/USB Combo card

Firewire 400 Hard Drives: Any Oxford 911 chipset based drive should work

- Maxtor One Touch II - Combo USB2 and Firewire (300Gig)
- Elite Pro FireWire Enclosure with Oxford911+ chipset
- LaCie Hard Drive (design by F.A. Porsche)

Firewire Capture Devices:

- ADS PYRO A/V Link - professional quality DV breakout box Model 550. I have this model, but have yet to be able to do much with it. I can't capture more than a few frames before it craps out. Further testing to be done.
- Apple iSight - reported as unstable, may cause the system to crash

Fibre Channel:

- Qlogic QLA2200 (single-port, 1GB/s)
- Qlogic QLA2310/2310F (single-port, 2GB/s, requires IRIX6.5.18 or later)
- QLogic QLA2340 (single-port, 2GB/s, requires IRIX6.5.18 or later)
- QLogic QLA2342 (dual-port, 2GB/s, requires IRIX6.5.18 or later)
- QLogic QLA2344 (quad-port, 2GB/s, requires IRIX6.5.18 or later)
- LSI LSI7104XP-LC (single-port, 4GB/s, requiresIRIX6.5.28 or later)
- LSI LSI7204XP-LC (dual-port, 4GB/s, requiresIRIX6.5.28 or later)

SCSI PCI Cards:

- SGI 2-Port PCIX Ultra320 SCSI LVD/SE HBA - SGI Part # PCIX-SCSI-U4-2P
- LSI LSI21320-IS Ultra320 SCSI LVD/SE HBA (OEM functional equivalent to PCIX-SCSI-U4-2P)
- LSI LSI22320 Ultra320 SCSI LVD/SE HBA (two external ports)
- LSI SAS3041X-R 4 internal SAS/SATA ports
- LSI SAS3442X 8-port SAS/SATA HBA (4 ports internal, 4 external)
- LSI SAS3442X-R 8-port SAS/SATA HBA
- LSI SAS3080X-R 8 internal SAS/SATA ports (the HP 347786-B21 is an OEM version)
- LSI SAS3800X 8 external SAS/SATA ports
- Qlogic QLA-1080
- Qlogic QLA-1280
- Qlogic QLA-10160
- Qlogic QLA-12160

Gigabit Ethernet PCI Cards: * see here for hacking instructions

- Alteon ACEnic 10/100/1000*
- Compaq NC7770 Gigabit Server Adapter* (Tigon3 chipset)
- 3Com 3C996 10/100/1000 PCI-X Server Network Interface Card* (Tigon3 chipset)
- SGI GigE with SGI part number 9210289
- Generic BCM5704 Dual port Gigabit (detals in this topic)

Audio PCI Cards

- M-Audio Revolution 7.1 PCI card
- RAD Digital Audio PCI card 3.3 volt cards only! SGI Part # 030-1441-001 & SGI Part # 030-1649-001
- Early Release 5V RAD Digital Audio cards (the 5V only versions, but only after this modification)
- Creative Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS
- Creative Soundblaster Audigy (SB00090) - produces a startup error message but otherwise works fine (Dr. Dave)

Other PCI Cards

- PCI Serial I/O (UFC) SGI Part # 030-1657-003 - this needs to be confirmed. There is a Tezro in the HINV section that has one and I've seen a Fuel on ebay with one.
- Adaptec UAU 3020 rev B Firewire/USB Combo card (blue PCB) - works in Fuel, had bus reset issues in Tezro. See this nekochan topic for details.

USB Devices See this thread for info on setting ioconfig.conf to get your USB device up and running, or see the usbinput man page.

- Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer USB
- Apple Mighty Mouse
- Apple Pro-Keyboard
- IBM Preferred USB Keyboard
- Griffin iMic and iMic2
- Telex USB audio device
- Apple iMac Graphite USB keyboard
- Logitech TrackMan Wheel USB mouse (scroll supported)P/N 804360 - 1000
- Sony VAIO USB mouse
-3D Connexion Spaceball 5000, driver v. 4.64 (works with Pro/E Wildfire 2)
- Wacom Graphire4
- Logitech USB Stereo Headset (microphone not supported)


FireWire SD Card Readers
Microtech CameraMate Note: any make of the CameraMate should work. There is an SCM version as well.
See this posting for details and configuration.

CD/DVD Drives

- Toshiba SD-M1401 SCSI DVD-ROM
- Toshiba SD-M1711 SCSI DVD-ROM
- Pioneer DVR-110DBK DVD Writer* (via Yamaha SCSI-IDE Converter V769970) Audio over SCSI also works with this config.
- Pioneer DVR-109 DVD Writer* (via Yamaha SCSI-IDE Converter V769970)
- Pioneer DVR-106 DVD Writer* (via Yamaha SCSI-IDE Converter V769970)
- LG 4167B DVD Writer (via Yamaha SCSI-IDE Converter V769970)
- LG GSA-H42N-BK DVD Writer (Bootable/Audio Over SCSI) (via Yamaha SCSI-IDE Converter V769970)
- Samsung DVD-Writer TS-H652 (via Yamaha SCSI-IDE Converter V769970)
- TEAC CD-R58S CD Writer (Bootable)
- Lite-On DH-20A4P-04 DVD Writer (via Yamaha SCSI-IDE Converter V769970) (Bootable)
- Yamaha CRW2100S SCSI CDRW

*The Pioneer drives give the following error when a DVD-R is ejected: So far it doesn't seem to affect anything.


Fuel Fan Replacements courtesy of Schleusel

Schleusel's comments on the fan replacements:

I mostly went with YS-TECH as those are relatively cheap and very quiet for the amount of air they move - i'm pretty happy with that choice so far. Especially replacing the two small XIO fans was really worth it.

Initially I had no intention to replace the large Exhaust fan as it was barely running at half speed most of the time - but as soon as I had replaced the rest I realised the very annoying clatter it produced. If your's is quiet - don't replace it
The Titan fan I now have in there isn't really optimal as it is only a 25mm thick model. It needs a higher rpm to move the same amount of air (currently its running at ~1500 rpm compared to the ~1200 rpm the original was mostly running at) but its still a lot more pleasent than the old one. It seems to be pretty hard to find 120x120x38mm fans these days.. well, apart from some 30 EUR+ PAPST models..

A note on the PSU fan:

I have the first generation 430W PSU so I can't comment on the newer 480W ones. The PSU fan was by far the noisiest part in the system. Noname thing running at 3400rpm and no rpm sensor (two pin only). The L1 controller does somehow manage to "guess" its rpm but it isn't really controlled. A few minutes after the machine is powered on it just keeps running at peak rpm. Initially I replaced it with a YS-TECH at 3000 rpm that actually moved more air than the original one - and was almost as annoying As the PSU is hardly running at 50% load and barely got hot I decided to try the PAPST I currently have in there. 19% less throughput at 2600 rpm - a lot better. Some Silent PC junkie would probably still run away but I don't really dare to go even lower. It needed a little software hack though: When initially powered on, the PAPST is running below the warning rpm of the L1 environmental monitoring. So with the monitoring running the L1 would just switch off the machine 60 seconds after power on. To work arount that I wrote an init script that switches off the env monitoring during system shutdown and switches it on again 5 minutes after the system is booted. At that time the PAPST is already running at full rpm and the L1 is happy - very ugly but works.

Anyway, a newer PSU is still quite high on my wishlist. Several l1cmd env outputs of machines with 480W PSU show the stock fan running way slower than my original one.. and hopefully with proper rpm sensor as the rest of the fans too.

Many thanks to Schleusel for this info!

The fan headers in the Fuel use a non-standard pin out. Martin Steen provided this photo shows how to connect the cables of a standard PC-fan to make it work on the Fuel. (or the wiring leads could be changed at the plug).

Keep 'em coming and I'll update the list.

<updated 14 December 2009>