Nick-- First of all, thanks for responding! Do you know any way to make the Origin 200 operate more quietly? I'm a hardware geek, so I know that there are cooling issues and air-flow issues, but the darned thing is so loud that I can't just keep it running all the time. If I keep it on, it's distracting, even when I put it in another room with the door closed. (My hearing is pretty sensitive...) It's in an air-conditioned house, and I don't mind putting in some temperature sensors to shut it off when it gets too warm inside... I'd hate to go to the trouble of creating a noise-muffling cabinet if there's some known way of making the beast a bit quieter. (Since I don't beat the disk drives up, they shouldn't generate much heat. I wouldn't mind pulling out all the drives but one, if that would help...) Since I have a couple of 'em (as well as another couple of loud rack-mount boxes), I've even considered building a custom cabinet with a single large-capacity fan in it to draw air through all four boxes, and mount a dozen LM34-based temperature sensors at strategic points in the boxes to shut 'em all down if it gets too warm in the cabinet... --marco nick@snowman.net wrote: > They are running at reduced speed unless the temp is over ~90. I can > answer most common questions about them. > Nick > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Marco C. Mason wrote: > > > Hello, OSS @ SGI gang-- > > > > I need a little help, please! As a result of a company closing, I've > > received a pair of SGI Origin 200 servers. Unfortunately, since the > > support contract on them has expired, I can't seem to use any of the > > support services at www.sgi.com. > > > > I'm just a home experimenter who wants to run the things 'til they die. > > I'm very pleased with the performance, software, etc., and I'm very > > familiar with them (as I worked on them 8 hrs / day for a year and a > > half until the office closed). > > > > The only difficulty is that these things are LOUD! I'd like to find out > > if there are any temperature monitors inside the thing, and if I can run > > the fans at a reduced speed, or remove some of the fans to make them > > reasonable in a home environment. They don't do a lot (as I just do > > some CPU-intensive stuff on them every once in a while, and very little > > disk-I/O). > > > > Thus, I'd like to find a contact for simple (but technical) hardware > > questions like these on the Origin 200. If you guys could send me a > > friendly contact or two, I'd be very grateful. > > > > (I'm also interested in making the thing dual-boot Irix & Linux, if the > > Linux port is close to operating... I've also got a pair of Indys that > > I'm planning on sacrificing to the Linux gods...) > > > > Thanks in advance-- > > > > --marco > > > >
