SGI Indigo Documentation
Silicon Graphics documents for the SGI IRIS Indigo: the owner's guide, the schematic of the IP12 (R3000) CPU board and the 1992 sales brochure.
Owner's guide (007-9065-050)
[edit | edit source]The IRIS Indigo Workstation Owner's Guide is Silicon Graphics' 228-page owner's manual, document number 007-9065-050, copyright 1996. It covers both the IRIS Indigo R3000 and the R4000 family. This copy is SGI's electronic edition with a text layer, from the TechPubs library.[1]
Contents
[edit | edit source]| Chapter | Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| 2 | Getting Started (site, unpacking, connecting, turning on, logging in, shutting down, locking) | 11 |
| 3 | Installing Memory (separate procedures for R3000 and R4000-family SIMMs) | 41 |
| 4 | Installing Peripherals (internal drives, external SCSI devices, serial devices and cables) | 67 |
| 5 | Installing and Removing Software | 93 |
| 6 | Troubleshooting (power-on tests and LED states, IDE tests, confidence tests, system recovery; replacing the keyboard, graphics board, CPU board or CPU module, power supply, SIMMs and drives) | 111 |
| 7 | Safety, Maintenance, and Regulatory Information (hardware do's and don'ts) | 165 |
| A | Cable Pinout Assignments (serial, parallel, Ethernet AUI, keyboard, SCSI, audio) | 181 |
What it does not contain
[edit | edit source]There are no schematics, component lists or power supply ratings, and no information on the clock battery or the Ethernet address EEPROM. The example message in its diagnostics section is for an IP22 machine, not an Indigo (p. 120).[1]
Pages that cite this document
[edit | edit source]- SGI Indigo – boards, memory, power supply, connectors
- SGI Indigo R4000 – SIMMs and CPU module
- SGI Indigo General Maintenance – site, opening the machine, memory, power supply, drives
- SGI Indigo Troubleshooting Guide – LED table, messages, IDE and confidence tests
- SGI Indigo Capacitor Replacement Guide – power supply removal
Download: SGI IRIS Indigo Workstation Owner's Guide (007-9065-050).pdf
HP1 (IP12) CPU board schematic (032-8044-003 rev C)
[edit | edit source]Silicon Graphics' schematic for the HP1 board, which is the IP12 CPU board of the IRIS Indigo R3000. Drawing number 032-8044-003, revision C, dated 31 October 1991, 36 sheets. The copy is a scan from bitsavers without a text layer.[2] It does not apply to the R4000-family IP20 board.
Contents
[edit | edit source]| Sheets | Content |
|---|---|
| 1–2 | Cover and table of contents |
| 3–12 | CPU and FPU, cache, DBC, read buffer, PIC, memory drivers, main memory banks 0 to 2 (sheet 5 is blank) |
| 13–22 | HPC, Ethernet, SCSI and keyboard/mouse, boot PROM and RTC (sheet 16), serial controllers, drivers and receivers, CPU and peripheral clocks, printer port buffer, INT2, graphics registers |
| 23–28 | Backplane connector, option card connectors, reset and LED, GIO clocks, pull-ups and spares, terminator |
| 29–36 | Audio power supply (sheet 29), audio analogue output, microphone input, line in, line out, audio digital I/O, DSP, Actel |
Pages that cite this document
[edit | edit source]- SGI Indigo – clock and battery circuit
- SGI Indigo General Maintenance – clock battery
- SGI Indigo Capacitor Replacement Guide – polarised capacitors on the CPU board
Download: SGI IRIS Indigo IP12 (HP1) CPU board schematic (032-8044-003 rev C).pdf
IRIS Indigo brochure (HLW-DS-02, 1/92)
[edit | edit source]A ten-page Silicon Graphics sales brochure for the R3000 IRIS Indigo models with Entry, XS, XS24 and Elan graphics, marked HLW-DS-02 1/92. The last page gives the specifications, including the dimensions, weight, power requirements, heat output and operating environment.[3] It is a scan.
Pages that cite this document
[edit | edit source]- SGI Indigo – specifications
- SGI Indigo General Maintenance – environment table
Download: SGI IRIS Indigo brochure (HLW-DS-02 1-92).pdf
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Silicon Graphics, IRIS Indigo Workstation Owner's Guide, 007-9065-050, 1996, from the SGI TechPubs library mirror at techpubs.jurassic.nl.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Silicon Graphics, HP1 schematic, 032-8044-003 rev C, 31 October 1991, from bitsavers.org. Sheet list from sheet 2.
- ↑ Silicon Graphics, IRIS Indigo brochure, HLW-DS-02 1/92, from the Internet Archive item sgi-indigo-brochure-92.