/usr/people/flexionNew ZuluSCSI Wide SCA boards finally arrived! Mounted one in the 3D printed sled for the SGI Octane.
Ready for the XFS copy party 🥳
Ready for the XFS copy party 🥳
Pete / Syllopsium@flexion Nice! ZS is noticeably slower for writes, but that should *still* be fast enough for e.g. RAW PAL capture on an O2 if I'm doing my sums correctly, so it's as fast as you need.
Plus, I'd love to have a near silent O2 if at all possible.
@syllopsium There is now also an option to install NVMe disks with waaay faster speeds in O2 as well as Octane and IP35. But my Octane2 unfortunately doesn't have the required PCI "shoebox" 😢
@flexion ooooh - details please! Is this as a boot disk too, or just an add on?
As it's an R5K O2 I potentially have a free PCI slots, although when I'm running something other an Irix I usually stick in a USB card to attach a USB keyboard, due to the utterly horrid PS/2 port in the O2.
@syllopsium to boot IRIX from PCI NVMe you still need to load the unix kernel with the drivers from somewhere first. Either using TFTP over network, from a scsi emu, or you could put the kernel on a EFS CD-ROM in the O2. here's the link for the driver: https://github.com/techomancer/irixnvme
@flexion hmm, interesting, thank you!
TFTP would be the easiest solution, even if it does require more infrastructure. I have two constantly on servers..
JiHefGe@flexion @syllopsium you made my day... I didn't know it was possible. So, next goal for holidays : find a bridge and an nvme adapter, and try on my O2 and my fuel. No pci shoebox for octane too here ðŸ˜. And it seems more complicated to find than 10 or 15 years ago ...
@jihefge @syllopsium It's less complicated with the SGI Fuel (Tezro & Origin). Simply plug in a compatible SATA controller and you can use any SSD drive. Also much faster as in O2 or Octane. Here's my diskperf on Samsung EVO SSD: