IRIX/SGI/hinv (was: Re: [fwd][TCLUG:15569] SGI Indy Boxen)

[Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>]

  Hi,

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> are 8bit or 24bit. no hinv (sort-of dmesg?) is available at this time; tho

Just thought I'd point this out as a general UNIX point of interest (;

'hinv' stands for Hardware Inventory. It is not really the same as
dmesg. If you look at SGIs for sale on eBay, you will see many examples of
hinv output. 

There is a hinv-like script for Linux (or whatever, it's written in
perl) which you can find on freshmeat. It's output on my PC looks liek
this:

root@beldaren:/# hinv
Main memory size: 256 Mbytes
1 AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor processor
2 16550A serial ports
2 IDE devices:
  /dev/hda: IBM-DJNA-351520, 14664MB w/430kB Cache, CHS=29795/16/63, UDMA
  /dev/hdb: Maxtor 90845D4, 8063MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA
1 ethernet interface
  eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx
1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom
  ARCHIVE  Python 28454-XXX
  PLEXTOR  CD-R   PX-R820T
Sound devices:
  1 Audio device
    Sound Blaster 16 (4.16)
  2 Synth devices
    SoftOSS
    Yamaha OPL3
  1 MIDI device
    Sound Blaster 16
  2 Timers
    System clock
    SoftOSS
  1 Mixer
    Sound Blaster
PCI bus devices:
    Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C597 Apollo VP3 (rev 4).
    PCI bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3 AGP (rev 0).
    ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 71).
    IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
    SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 3).
    Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
    Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 17).
    VGA compatible controller: Matrox Matrox G200 AGP (rev 1).



-Yaron

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