cctalk Digest, Vol 51, Issue 31

[Scott Quinn]

On Nov 10, 2007, at 10:00 AM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:

> hello all,
> i have an SGI indigo2 which ive installed a 2GB IBM hard drive in. 
> however,
> from a cold boot, i receive a drive/cable error, and it asks me to 
> press any
> key to continue. when i do, i press start system and it all comes to 
> life.
> im assuming it takes longer for the drive to spin up than the indigo2 
> takes
> to wait for the drive. is there a way to adjust this? thanks

Which drive? IBM has a number of 2GB drives, and I know definitely that 
one of them (0664) doesn't work in a R3k Indigo at all. OTOH, SGI OEMed 
some IBM drives, so it isn't all of them (the 0664 was originally from 
a RS/6000 AFAIK).

The Hitachi site has setup sheets still for many old IBM drives - see 
if there's a "spinup on power-on" jumper.