Davyd wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 10:35, Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings! What are the best upgrades for these machines? Where can > > one get 50pin SCSI2 disks anymore? > > Ebay perhaps? I have a pile lying around at work that I used. > I think you'll also find that an adapter exists that will convert > ultrawide SCSI to 50 pin SCSI. > > The inverse of one of these: > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/cableprodindex.html?sess=no&language=English+US&parentcat=%2fCables%2fTerminators+%26+Converters%2fInternal+SCSI+Converters > > Remember, when installing new disks. You're going to have to get an SGI > disklabel onto the disk partition. This will either require a version of > IRIX or a recent version of fdisk. Use an fdisk as "recent" as woody. :-) > I am led the believe that recent > versions of GNUParted can also do this. AFAIK not in a straightforward way, because there is no special handling for the volume header partition. Thiemo
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