[KayBee]

Ah...retro workstations, almost everything I tried yesterday didn't work. I was working on getting the SCSI2SD to work with the Octane. I tried many jumper, termination settings both physical and in SCSI2SD but no luck. I read somewhere that someone is doing it so I will have to dig around. While I was trying that my light bar bulbs burned out. I do have tiny "grain-of-wheat" bulbs, but a quick test showed they get somewhere between really warm and hot. So, today being a new day, so far all is going well. I desoldered the bulbs and I soldered in a 150Ω resistor and a 2.5mm green LED. I am happy with the result. Next I followed JacquesT lead and replaced my drive bay fan with a Zalman F2.  I had previously drilled out the rivets and removed the restrictive front plate. This thing is far quieter now. Since this guy was a smoke previously, and has several accounts on it, its drive isn't so useful yet, so I also did a fresh install of IRIX 6.5.30 via CDROM onto an Ebay Seagate. While I am on a roll I may replace the Cherokee fan with the scythe. 

Good luck to you folks and whatever you work on today.

KB