dave@imax.com (Dave Martindale) (03/20/91)
A friend has recently acquired an old SGI IRIS 2400 machine for minimal or zero dollars. Unfortunately, the disk controller is dead, and SGI wants $1000 (US) plus $175/hr to fix it. This is out of his price range, given what he paid for it and the actual value of the machine. Thus, he asked me to appeal to the net: If you have a spare disk controller board for a 2400 or 3000-series IRIS, or even a whole machine sitting idle in a corner, and you'd be willing to part with the controller for zero or relatively little money, he'd like to know about it. You can talk to him directly at 416-533-4692; his name is Ken. Or you can send email to me, and I'll forward the message to him. Dave Martindale dave@imax.com
blbates@AERO36.LARC.NASA.GOV (Brent Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) (03/21/91)
The disk controller board in the 3130 is a Storager II, High-performance,
Multibus, Disk/Tape Controller made by Interphase.
Interphase Corp.
13800 Senlac
Dallas, Texas 75234
Phone: (214)-919-9000 FAX: (214) 919-9200
I had some problems with installing a 3rd party disk in our 3130 and
Interphase was very helpfull. (It turned out the drive I bought was too
good for the old controller, so it never worked quite right.)
You could check with them, it would probably cost less from them than
SGI.
Brent L. Bates
NASA-Langley Research Center
M.S. 361
Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225
Phone:(804) 864-2854 FAX:(804) 864-6792
E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov