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I just got a S5-1414. I noticed that on the bottom of the optical drive tray there are four holes that line up with the holes on the bottom of a 2.5" drive. It looks like there's JUST room enough for a drive in there between the optical drive and the 3.5" hard drive. I searched this huge...

Well, since I don't have enough posts to list this in the for sale form where it belongs I'll stick it here. I've got the SGI-branded gray FW900 for sale, $250 OBO. Very good shape, anti-glare film removed, perfect glass, no problems that I'm aware of. I'm in ZIP 19464 and this is pickup only...

I've got three systems I'd like to get hooked up to my FW900 and was wondering if this idea would help me avoid using a KVM for the graphics connections. The first system is just a normal PC. I'd connect it D-sub VGA out to the D-sub connector on the FW900. The other two systems are an SGI...

Even though I just listed my SGI-branded FW900 for sale a few posts back (and it is still up for sale), I decided to pull the anti-glare film off. Its stuck on there good but the removal process isn't that difficult. Remove the back case from the monitor by unscrewing four screens, two on...

Oh sorry I thought you were talking about an issue with a Sony hooked to an SGI. No clue, mine doesn't do that.

Hmm not sure. What kind of SGI is it?

Edit: Out-dated for sale post.

I know I've read complaints in this thread about problems with DVI->VGA adapters. So far everything I've hooked up to my FW900 has had an analog output so that hasn't been an issue for me. I've got a Gigabyte GA-MA78LM-S2H motherboard with integrated ATI Radeon 3000 graphics. I can't get it...

Does anyone know if a full-length PCI card will fit in this case? It looks a bit short or like it would take some cutting of the bays for the hard drives to fit it.

I think I saw that before, I'm surprised google searches haven't brought up anything along the lines of my question - somebody else must have wondered about this at some point. I don't have any particular use for one other than the usual hobbyist interest in unusual stuff. And I was thinking...

Does anyone know of any single board computers that can be used in PC PCI or PCI-X slot and either run its own instance of Windows or Linux or function as an added CPU in addition to the motherboard CPU? I know most of these things are meant for specialized PCI backplanes for industrial...

Check out searchtempest.com for searching multiple craigslist locations at once. Here's a $99 FW900 in NJ: http://newjersey.craigslist.org/sys/1527086562.html As long as you can get a monitor of this quality for +/- $100 this thread isn't going anywhere! As promised here's a...

Has anyone tried replacing the USB hub with one that's 2.0? I've only been able to read about half of this thread so far so it may have come up. It would take some work even if you found one that lined up exactly with the current holes - if you were going to power it from the monitor...

Got the monitor (SGI version, GDM-FW9011) home and hooked up without incident. Hooked it up to the G5 and set it at 1920x1200 and let it sit for about 45 minutes. Then I did image restore which didn't seem to do much. It was looking pretty good beforehand though. I tried it a few more times...

Just got it! The case looks great except for a few minor scratches on top that aren't visible from the front. I looked it over quickly since the guy still had relatives in for the holidays but the screen looked OK. Not bad for $75 including the BNC cable! :) Most people may prefer the Sony...

I'm going to be picking up a SGI-branded FW9011 soon! Its going to be difficult to get it in my car so I'm not quite sure what I'll do with it yet. That will partly depend on just how hard it is to handle. I've transported a few CRT monitors with them sitting on their side or well...

Yeah, but I took the "PCI /" to mean PCI or PCIe. I think we can be sure whatever he got for $2 wasn't PCIe. We'll find out if he reports back. :) PCI bandwidth is nothing compared to PCIe of course. The card he is got is likely PCI-X but without the correct slot he'd be kicked down to...

Thanks for the explanation. That seems to fit the complaints I was reading. I should have been more specific since I had seen TLER on WD's site and had a clue that it was A problem but thought there were additional significant issues with using consumer drives. After only seeing TLER...

What'd you get? Get a good SCSI cable if you haven't already got one. When you get it all set up look around and compare your performance with other setups of the same vintage. Not all 15K drives are that fast by today's standards but I'd guess 60-80 MB/s per drive. Its not too hard to...

I read the first post. Are you not able to read the subsequent ones? If you whining because my example wasn't U320 or a RAID controller it was just an example of how cheap this stuff is. You can get the same kind of deal on the U320/RAID stuff if you watch for it. If you want a PCIe card...

Yeah, SCSI cards are cheap, even RAID cards. Like $25 or less cheap in many cases. Just because you see some advertised at high prices doesn't mean you have to pay anywhere near that. Pick a few you're interested in and watch ebay. I got an Adaptec 39160 (dual channel Ultra160, non-RAID) for...

I've seen some reviews on newegg and posts elsewhere from people having issues running non-enterprise drives in RAID configurations. Supposedly Western Digital only supports the Raptors and RE2/3 drives in RAID configurations - according to some reviews. These have been in reference to more...

OK, here's Qlogic's Knowledge Base entry KB12182: Question: Can QLogic adapters address a LUN size greater than 2TB? Answer: QLogic drivers are a SCSI pass-through (SCSI miniport) driver; they do not interpret the SCSI data passing to and from the server and storage. By design, they...

Adaptec has quite a few U320 RAID controllers on their website.

The few bits of info I've seen that suggested it was possible have been about that U320 LSI HBA. But I don't think that's a RAID controller (they do have one that just does RAID 0/1) so the card must be hooked to an external Infotrend controller in the example given in that document. I found a...

Is there a SCSI hardware RAID controller out there that supports volumes over 2TB? I've seen sources that claim this is a limitation of the SCSI spec yet others the claim working setups but don't give much detail. I'm not talking about an OS partition limit but a recent SCSI controller that...

I work in government and I have to tell you spending $500,000 unnecessarily and with poor planning is nothing out of the ordinary. In their defense, three weeks is not that much time to decide you want to seriously consider purchasing the thing, getting the inspection done and getting bids on...

Another response to my own question... The user manual says that there is a 2.199 TB limitation for all arrays created within the unit. You can make multiple arrays so I'm assuming that no matter how many you have the limit for all added together is 2.199 TB...for some reason. There are...

Answered my own question on using different drive sleds. Based on what I'm seeing for removable SATA drives in general they connect directly with the backplane. Duh. Strange that the LaCie sleds have a different connection which may be identical of the standard FC drive connector. ATA...

Did the people calling college a scam actually GO to college? Maybe your school was a scam. If there was an attempt to scam me it backfired big time. I loved college. And there's academic/professional benefits that come from things other than sitting in lectures and doing homework. Plus the...

I've got a 4-drive LaCie F800 USB/FW400/FW800 RAID attached to my iMac that I'm using to store DVD backups and other video. Right now its 4x 250GB in a RAID 5. I want something bigger and while I could get 4x 1TB but I don't want to bother buying another 1 TB to store the data during the swap...