SGI gotcha's

This is not exhaustive. It's my notes, really.

Hardware:

dmumford@sillyg$ hinv
1 100 MHZ IP20 Processor
FPU: MIPS R4000 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 0.0
CPU: MIPS R4000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.2
On-board serial ports: 2
On-board bi-directional parallel port
Data cache size: 8 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 8 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte on Processor 0
Main memory size: 32 Mbytes
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision C
  CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0
  Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Iris Audio Processor: revision 10
Graphics board: LG1
dmumford@sillyg$

Installation

Administration

Useful Links

Here's some stuff that was useful at one time, and may still be useful.