Ralf-- Thanks for your reply! --marco Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:52:52PM -0400, Marco C. Mason wrote: > > > 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). > > Via the system controller you can set the fan speed. Only the fan speeds > n like normal and h like high are supported. If the machine feels like > it is hot or one of the fans has failed it'll automatically switch the > fan speed to h. If more than one fan fails it'll power off ... > > > 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. > > Well, try this list. > > > (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...) > > The Indy port is in reasonable shape; the O200 port has decayed a bit > over the past months but as far as time permits I'm working on getting > it to run again. > > Ralf
