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i'm a bit confused by the scsi adapter requirements, most of these are 68pin scsi ultra320. i thought we needed 80pin? no scsi cards i have found use 80pin connectors. i could do some kind of adapter on top of it i guess? i'd be getting this card here since i need pcie: https://www.ebay.com/itm/126761016079
and then i have to buy the wiring and terminator stuff, and adapter to 80pin, it could get expensive. and then on top of that i have to figure out the old version linux situation if it supports modern chipset or anything on my pc, crap! so i don't know... but i won't be getting another sgi anytime soon so i can't break in from another sgi.

oh wait, i just noticed you said i can put it as the next slot as a non-boot drive. yeah that should work! OK i'll try to find some drive sleds to do that.

i know one person got lucky using a brute force password cracking app but his pass was only 8chars long. i'm not sure what the typical password len is or the char limit of root passes on irix. someone mentioned there may also be some kind of irix vulnerabilities that could be exploited.

also i thought octane2 configs started at 400mhz and up. i could be wrong here but i think maybe my cpu got swapped in from a older octane1 and wasn't a factory option.

for skins there was octane1 teal colored skin w/ cube logo, octane1 green skin w/ cube logo, octane1 green skin modern logo, octane2 blue skin modern logo? which came first the teal or the green?