[kaigan]

Anybody running an Onyx4 want to report in on how well it works with SGI graphics ? Reports at the time were, lots of glitches and stuff that wasn't quite right. But you know people, if it was just a flash when changing windows or something, a single O4 would do this job much easier than a four-box pileup.

Once I have a working O350 module (it's on the way), I'll be able to fire up the Onyx4 setup and run some tests against the old SGI demos and such. It'll be interesting to see how much of it even works.

NB: The DVD ROM in the O350 isn't anything special, is it? Other than that little piece of sheet metal needed to mount it and the fact that it's IDE, thus old?

Yep, that's exactly right. Both the IO9 and IO10 have IDE controllers and a separate cable is used to connect to the IDE DVD-ROM drive. The drive works pretty well in my experience, but we definitely do have better ways to install IRIX. For random old Linux versions on an Altix, it works well, though.