SGI Onyx2 Documentation
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SGI documentation for the SGI Onyx2: the owner's guides for the deskside and rackmount systems, the theory of operations manual SGI wrote for the Origin and Onyx2 together, and SGI's 1998 technical report on the Onyx2 graphics.
Deskside owner's guide (007-3454-005)
[edit | edit source]Silicon Graphics, Silicon Graphics Onyx2 Deskside Workstation Owner's Guide, document number 007-3454-005, 1999, 146 pages. It covers the deskside Onyx2 (model CMN A015) with Onyx2 Reality and InfiniteReality2 graphics.
Contents: 1, Introducing the Onyx2 Deskside Workstation (p. 1), with the environment and specifications (pp. 10–11); 2, Chassis Tour (p. 13), including the midplane, Node board LEDs and graphics boards; 3, Getting Started (p. 31), with operating voltages and the 110 V configurations (p. 32), removing the covers (p. 34), and powering on and off (pp. 42–44); 4, I/O Interfaces and Cabling (p. 45), including the DG5 graphics panels; 5, Installing and Replacing Customer-Replaceable Units (p. 79); 6, Using the Module System Controller (p. 87), with its LEDs, functions and messages; 7, Basic Troubleshooting (p. 95), with the power supply LEDs (p. 97); appendix A, Video Format Combiner Tutorial (p. 107).
It gives no board-level repair information, no parts list and no component values, and does not cover rack systems.
Download: File:SGI Onyx2 Deskside Workstation Owner's Guide (007-3454-005).pdf
Rackmount owner's guide (007-3457-005)
[edit | edit source]Silicon Graphics, Silicon Graphics Onyx2 Rackmount Owner's Guide, document number 007-3457-005, 2000, 206 pages. It covers single and multirack Onyx2 systems built from graphics and compute modules.
Contents: 1, Introducing the Onyx2 Rackmount System (p. 1), including multirack and RealityMonster configurations; 2, Chassis Tour (p. 25), with the graphics and compute modules, Node boards, the MSC and MMSC and the router boards; 3, System Configurations, Connections, and Cabling (p. 51); 4, Getting Started (p. 91), with the power-on order (p. 95); 5, Installing and Replacing Customer-Replaceable Units (p. 107); 6, Using the System Controllers (p. 121); 7, Basic Troubleshooting (p. 133); appendix A, System Specifications (p. 145); B, Drive Maintenance (p. 147); C, Module System Controller Messages (p. 157); D, Video Format Combiner Tutorial (p. 159).
Download: File:SGI Onyx2 Rackmount Owner's Guide (007-3457-005).pdf
Theory of operations manual (007-3439-002)
[edit | edit source]Silicon Graphics, Origin and Onyx2 Theory of Operations Manual, document number 007-3439-002, copyright 1997, 124 pages. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the Origin family architecture (p. 1), chapter 2 the boards (p. 31) and chapter 3 the ASICs (p. 75), including the Hub, Router and Crossbow (XBOW). It describes how the machines work and contains no repair procedures.
Download: File:SGI Origin and Onyx2 Theory of Operations Manual (007-3439-002).pdf
Graphics technical report (1998)
[edit | edit source]Silicon Graphics, Onyx2 Reality, Onyx2 InfiniteReality and Onyx2 InfiniteReality2 Technical Report, August 1998, 95 pages, from the Internet Archive. It describes the system configurations, the graphics APIs, the geometry, raster and display subsystems, video formats, the hardware architecture and IRIX. It is a technical description for buyers and developers, with no service information.
Download: File:SGI Onyx2 Reality and InfiniteReality2 Technical Report (August 1998).pdf
Other documents
[edit | edit source]- Site Preparation for SGI 2000-Series, Origin Family, Onyx2, Octane, and O2, 007-3452-004, is hosted as File:SGI Site Preparation for SGI 2000-Series, Origin, Onyx2, Octane and O2 (007-3452-004).pdf.
- SGI's Hardware Quick-reference Booklet (Origin and Onyx2 Series), HMQ-380-C (November 1999), a field-service booklet with the MSC and MMSC commands, hardware debug switches and LED codes, is on the Internet Archive as item Origin2k_Hardware_Guide.
- The Origin 2000 owner's guides, which cover the same compute modules, are listed on SGI Origin 2000.
Pages that cite these documents
[edit | edit source]- SGI Onyx2: specifications, deskside and rack configurations, graphics, power.
- SGI Onyx2 General Maintenance: safety, power-up order, covers, drives.
- SGI Onyx2 Troubleshooting Guide: MSC indicators and messages, power supply LEDs, Node board LEDs.
- SGI Onyx2 Capacitor Replacement Guide: power supply outputs and LEDs.