Monday, December 15, 2025

Installing a 32k DS1386 into an SGI Indy that expects an 8k DS1386

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 The TL;DR is - you can't just plug a 32k DS1386 into an SGI Indy and have it work, as a bunch of stuff is wrong.  The longer version! H...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Blinking the SGI Indy Power Light

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I figured out what broke in netbsd to make the R5000SC I have here poweroff during startup. In any case, the hack for blinking the front pan...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Reverse Engineering the SGI Indy Monitor Detection, or "thank god someone added SGI indy / indigo 2 support to MAME"

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 I have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for the SGI Indy and (purple, not teal, heh) Indigo 2. So imagine my surprise when NetBSD "alm...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

A tale of an SGI Indy, a Sony power supply, and how to keep the fan spinning

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Let's not dwell on why I bought an SGI Indy. Anyway. One of the common things that I've seen is failure due to power supplies or hea...
Friday, May 2, 2025

Installing FreeBSD-15 directly on an SSD, or "wait this 2007 era AMD K8 1RU server doesn't boot from USB flash?"

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I .. ok let's not talk about why I'm putting freebsd-15 on an old K8 era box. (it's for network hijinx testing with old realtek ...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Getting a Gotek working on a PCW9512

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I acquired a PCW9512 motherboard a year or so ago and I really wanted to get it up and going so I can build a little case for it and turn it...
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Friday, July 26, 2024

Fixing a dead Amstrad PCW9512+, Part 2

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In my previous post I yanked enough of the PCW9512+ apart and debugged why the power supply just plainly wasn't working. Now it's t...
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