This guide provides an overview of the components that make up the SGI Onyx 300 graphics system and it describes how to operate this system. Specifically, it provides the following information:
An index completes this guide.
This guide is written for owners, system administrators, and users of the SGI Onyx 300 graphics system. It is written with the assumption that the reader has a general knowledge of computers and computer operations.
Your SGI system support engineer (SSE) should perform the addition or replacement of parts and service of your SGI Onyx 300 graphics system, with the exception of the following tasks that you may perform yourself:
Connecting the following components to your system: monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and system console.
Using your system console to enter commands and perform system functions such as powering on and powering off.
Installing and removing disk drives.
Using the On/Off, reset, and non-maskable interrupt (NMI) buttons on the front panel of an SGI Onyx 300 compute module.
This section lists SGI documents that are relevant to the setup and use of the SGI Onyx 300 graphics system, as follows:
SGI Onyx 300 Graphics System User's Guide (this manual) (hard copy shipped with system)
SGI Origin 300 System with NUMAlink Module User's Guide
PCI Expansion Module User's Guide
SGI Total Performance 900 Storage System User's Guide
IRIX Admin Software Installation and Licensing Guide
Other SGI documentation
Man pages (online)
IRIX Release Notes (on CD)
Use this guide to become familiar with your graphics system and to learn how to operate, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the system. This guide contains information on installing and replacing disk drives and on connecting the following components to your system: monitors, keyboards, mice, speakers, and a system console.
 | Warning: To ensure your safety and protect your system, do not add or replace any components that this guide does not designate as customer replaceable. Contact your SGI system support engineer (SSE) to install any hardware components that are not designated as customer replaceable in this guide. |
This guide provides information about the SGI Origin 300 system that contains a NUMAlink module. It describes how to operate, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the system. It also contains L1 and L2 controller commands that you may need to operate your Onyx 300 graphics system.
This guide provides information about how to operate, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the PCI expansion module. This module is an optional component that provides additional I/O capabilities for the Onyx 300 graphics system.
This guide provides information about how to operate and maintain the SGI Total Performance 900 (TP900) storage system. This system is an optional component that provides a SCSI (small computer system interface) JBOD (just a bunch of disks) storage solution for the Onyx 300 graphics system.
This is the complete reference guide on using the installation program, inst, to install software. For information on using the Software Manager to install software, refer to the online Personal System Administration Guide.
You can access other SGI documentation in either of the following two ways:
SGI manuals are available in various formats at:
http://techpubs.sgi.com
If you have an SGI workstation running IRIX software, you can use the online documentation package called the IRIS InSight online viewer. Select Online Books from the Help toolchest. You will see bookshelves for end-user, developer, and administration manuals. Double-click the name of a book to open it. For descriptions of hard-copy manuals that are available for purchase, double-click Documentation Catalog.
Your system includes a set of IRIX online manual pages, which are formatted in the standard UNIX “man page” style. These man pages are located online on the internal system disk (or CD-ROM) and are displayed using the man command. For example, to display the man page for the Add_disk command, enter the following command at a shell prompt:
man Add_disk |
Man pages document important system configuration files and commands. References in SGI documentation to these pages include the name of the command and the section number in which the command is located. For example, “Add_disk(1)” refers to the Add_disk command and indicates that it is located in section 1 of the IRIX reference.
For additional information about displaying reference pages using the man command, see man(1).
In addition, the apropos command locates man pages based on keywords. For example, to display a list of man pages that describe disks, enter the following command at a shell prompt:
apropos disk |
For information about setting up and using apropos, see the apropos(1) and makewhatis(1M) man pages.
SGI provides a comprehensive product support and maintenance program for its products:
If you are in North America and want support for your SGI supported products, contact the Technical Assistance Center at +1 800 800 4SGI or your authorized service provider.
If you are outside North America, please contact the SGI subsidiary or authorized distributor in your country.
This document uses the following conventions:
Convention | Meaning |
command | This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures. |
variable | Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined. |
user input | This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font. |
[] | Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line. |
... | Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated. |
manpage(x) | Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names. |
GUI element | This font denotes graphical user interface elements. |
If you have comments about the technical accuracy, content, or organization of this document, contact SGI. Be sure to include the title and document number of the manual with your comments. (Online, the document number is located in the front matter of the manual. In printed manuals, the document number is located at the bottom of each page.)
You may contact SGI in any of the following ways:
Send e-mail to the following address:
techpubs@sgi.com
Use the Feedback option on the Technical Publications Library Web page:
Contact your customer service representative and ask that an incident be filed in the SGI incident tracking system.
Send mail to the following address:
Technical Publications
SGI
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Mountain View, California 94043-1351Send a fax to the attention of “Technical Publications” at +1 650 932 0801.
SGI values your comments and will respond to them promptly.