dave
SGI Octane2in service
hinv
modelSGI Octane2
year2001
cpudual 400MHz R12000
memory1GB
osIRIX 6.5.30
networkEssential PCI HIPPI; Gigabit Ethernet
roletest bed
statusin service
History
Dave unfortunately misses his door, like almost all Octane's. I got this one from Japan - a very lucky find. It was listed as untested but the DVI connector on the back told me this was a V12 with DCD (dual display card). Over time some hardware got transplanted and the DCD and V12 and the CPU board moved to lucy. But dave is still a fantastic machine! It runs a cloned version of lucy's harddrive which breaks every and all licenses, but I use it to test out stuff. Especially drivers for HIPPI and Myrinet (gm) break the kernel, and that's what dave is for. He's happy doing it :-)