SGI Origin 2000 Documentation
SGI Origin 2000 Documentation describes the Silicon Graphics manuals for the SGI Origin 2000 hosted here, with the PDF of each. All are SGI's own electronic editions with searchable text, from the mirror of SGI's TechPubs library.[1] None of them goes below the field-replaceable unit: there are no schematics or component lists for the node boards, midplane or power supply.
Origin2000 Deskside Owner's Guide (007-3453-002)
[edit | edit source]SGI's owner's guide for the deskside server, model CMN A015, document number 007-3453-002, copyright 1997, 104 pages.[2]
Contents: 1 introduction (features, node boards, BaseIO, XIO, midplane, MSC, drives, location and air clearances Table 1-1); 2 chassis tour (physical specifications Table 2-1 on p. 10, rear panel, node board LEDs p. 17, midplane, router and node configurations Table 2-2, XIO slot rules p. 24, BaseIO connectors); 3 getting started (voltages and safety p. 30, front door, plastic covers pp. 32-34, drives and SCSI IDs p. 35, power on and off pp. 38-41); 4 Ethernet, serial and SCSI pinouts; 5 customer-replaceable units (system and data disks, MSC and CD-ROM assembly pp. 56-57); 6 module system controller (front panel, LEDs and switches p. 64, features p. 65, messages Table 6-1 pp. 67-68); 7 basic troubleshooting (power supply LEDs pp. 71-72, crash recovery, MSC shutdown pp. 76-77, hardware graph).[2]
Download: SGI Origin2000 Deskside Owner's Guide (007-3453-002).pdf
Origin2000 Rackmount Owner's Guide (007-3456-003)
[edit | edit source]SGI's owner's guide for rack systems, document number 007-3456-003, copyright 1997, 146 pages.[3]
Contents: 1 introduction; 2 chassis tour (system controller, BaseIO, IP27 node board, router boards, power distribution unit, CrayLink, PCI carrier); 3 interface pinouts; 4 system configurations, from one rack to multirack; 5 getting started (terminal, SCSI, SCA drives, power on and off, reset); 6 customer-replaceable units (drives, facade, system controller and CD-ROM module); 7 the multimodule system controller and its display (pp. 99-103) and the module system controller; 8 troubleshooting (physical checklist, XIO slots not working p. 118, MSC shutdown); appendix A system specifications.[3]
Download: SGI Origin2000 Rackmount Owner's Guide (007-3456-003).pdf
Origin 2000 Redundant Power Supply Option Owner's Guide (007-3654-001)
[edit | edit source]A short guide to the optional four-module redundant power supply for deskside and rack systems, document number 007-3654-001, copyright 1999, 24 pages.[4]
Contents: operation, LEDs and the revised fan tray (pp. 2-3); failure messages from hinv, the hardware graph and the MSC (pp. 4-5); replacement part numbers Table 1-2 (p. 6); power-cycling a multirack system after an I2C FAIL (pp. 6-8); specifications Table 1-3 (p. 8); appendix A, the full list of MSC messages, which SGI says supersedes the lists in the two owner's guides (pp. 9-10).[4]
Download: SGI Origin 2000 Redundant Power Supply Option Owner's Guide (007-3654-001).pdf
Other documents
[edit | edit source]SGI's Site Preparation for SGI 2000-Series, Origin Family, Onyx2, Octane and O2 (007-3452-004) is also hosted, at File:SGI Site Preparation for SGI 2000-Series, Origin, Onyx2, Octane and O2 (007-3452-004).pdf. Its chapter 6 gives the base module's physical specifications, voltage requirements and power and cooling figures.[5] SGI's Origin and Onyx2 Theory of Operations Manual (007-3439-002) is hosted at File:SGI Origin and Onyx2 Theory of Operations Manual (007-3439-002).pdf. The TechPubs mirror also holds the Origin2000 and Onyx2 VME Option Owner's Guide (007-3618-002) and the rackmount kit instructions (007-3603-003).[1]
Pages that cite these documents
[edit | edit source]- SGI Origin 2000
- SGI Origin 2000 General Maintenance
- SGI Origin 2000 Troubleshooting Guide
- SGI Origin 2000 Capacitor Replacement Guide
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 SGI TechPubs library mirror, hardware manuals index, techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/hdwr/ (retrieved 21 October 2026).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Silicon Graphics, Origin2000 Deskside Owner's Guide, 007-3453-002, title page and contents, pp. iii-v.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Silicon Graphics, Origin2000 Rackmount Owner's Guide, 007-3456-003, title page and contents, pp. v-vii.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Silicon Graphics, Origin 2000 Redundant Power Supply Option Owner's Guide, 007-3654-001, contents and pp. 1-10.
- ↑ Silicon Graphics, Site Preparation for SGI 2000-Series, Origin Family, Onyx2, Octane and O2, 007-3452-004, chapter 6, pp. 55-64.