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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:	FDDI - The Next Generation

Moderator:	NETCAD::STEFANI

Created:	Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2259
Total number of notes:	8590

1868.0. "Digital's EISA NIC in SGI?" by CGOS01::DMARLOWE (Have you been HUBbed lately?) Thu Nov 16 1995 16:06

    Does anyone have any experience (or even a best guess) as to putting an
    EISA UTP card into an SGI?  The big question is - what drivers are
    needed and do we have anything to do this?  They will be upgrading to
    RS6?? in the near future but I understand that it is just another
    flavor of UNIX.
    
    SGI has a proprietary bus and also an EISA bus.  The SGI bus NIC card
    costs $2-3K so it would be great if we could do this as our cards are
    half that.  They have 30-40 SGI's that could be converted and we are
    trying to keep 100BaseT out as we won't have a product for some time.
    
    dave

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	>>Does anyone have any experience (or even a best guess) as to putting an >>EISA UTP card into an SGI? The big question is - what drivers are >>needed and do we have anything to do this? They will be upgrading to >>RS6?? in the near future but I understand that it is just another >>flavor of UNIX. It may physically plug in, but you'll need a device driver to make it work. We don't support any SGI UNIX platform today, and are unlikely to without a large business justification. UNIX may be "similar" across various platforms, but there are enough differences to make it a separate development effort for each new platform and OS. >>SGI has a proprietary bus and also an EISA bus. The SGI bus NIC card >>costs $2-3K so it would be great if we could do this as our cards are >>half that. They have 30-40 SGI's that could be converted and we are >>trying to keep 100BaseT out as we won't have a product for some time. The high cost is likely because it's a fairly closed market for NICs on SGI platforms, so your commodity-based NIC vendors (such as Digital) don't enter it. -Larry

    >>Does anyone have any experience (or even a best guess) as to putting an
    >>EISA UTP card into an SGI?  The big question is - what drivers are
    >>needed and do we have anything to do this?  They will be upgrading to
    >>RS6?? in the near future but I understand that it is just another
    >>flavor of UNIX.
    
    It may physically plug in, but you'll need a device driver to make it
    work.  We don't support any SGI UNIX platform today, and are unlikely
    to without a large business justification.  UNIX may be "similar"
    across various platforms, but there are enough differences to make it a
    separate development effort for each new platform and OS.
    
    >>SGI has a proprietary bus and also an EISA bus.  The SGI bus NIC card
    >>costs $2-3K so it would be great if we could do this as our cards are
    >>half that.  They have 30-40 SGI's that could be converted and we are
    >>trying to keep 100BaseT out as we won't have a product for some time.
    
    The high cost is likely because it's a fairly closed market for NICs on
    SGI platforms, so your commodity-based NIC vendors (such as Digital)
    don't enter it.
                                                              
    -Larry