Hello, OSS @ SGI gang--
I need a little help, please! As a result of a company closing, I've
received a pair of SGI Origin 200 servers. Unfortunately, since the
support contract on them has expired, I can't seem to use any of the
support services at www.sgi.com.
I'm just a home experimenter who wants to run the things 'til they die.
I'm very pleased with the performance, software, etc., and I'm very
familiar with them (as I worked on them 8 hrs / day for a year and a
half until the office closed).
The only difficulty is that these things are LOUD! I'd like to find out
if there are any temperature monitors inside the thing, and if I can run
the fans at a reduced speed, or remove some of the fans to make them
reasonable in a home environment. They don't do a lot (as I just do
some CPU-intensive stuff on them every once in a while, and very little
disk-I/O).
Thus, I'd like to find a contact for simple (but technical) hardware
questions like these on the Origin 200. If you guys could send me a
friendly contact or two, I'd be very grateful.
(I'm also interested in making the thing dual-boot Irix & Linux, if the
Linux port is close to operating... I've also got a pair of Indys that
I'm planning on sacrificing to the Linux gods...)
Thanks in advance--
--marco
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