[foreman]

Hello, I'm new here. I recently was given a teal Indigo2 4400 with Elan graphics (I believe it may have an Indy CPU? hinv shows it is 175Mhz) and I have been trying to get it running. This is my first SGI/Irix/Unix system. The farthest I have gotten is the maintenance menu.

At first I was plagued with an SCSI device failed error:


I found that the old boot drive (a 1GB IBM that originally had Irix 5.3 on it) was dead, so I placed the option drive still in its own sled in the slot where the boot drive had been. Originally, the boot drive was showing as disk one and the option drive was disk 2. I rebooted with the new drive configuration to find that the option drive was now somehow disk 4, and there was no disk 1. The highest disk was now the cdrom at ID 3. I figured there should be a way to install to a drive that isn't ID 1, so I ran FX to format it and tried to run the first disk of the Irix 6.5.19 install anyway.

I now got this:


I read over this thread:
http://forums.irixnet.org/thread-1826-po...l#pid11937
And this one:
https://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=98078

But still couldn't fix the problem. I figured it must have to do with the SCSI ID. So, I shutdown and pulled the drive back out. Mind you, I have never dealt with SCSI drives before. First, I tried following the directions on the drive to set the ID:


The brown (ground?) Wire was on ADDR 4, so I moved it to 1.


Put it back in, powered on, still ID 4. Then I read over this:
http://forums.irixnet.org/thread-1485-po...ml#pid9506
and came to the conclusion that I should use the original drive sled. But, the ID connector on my drive was female and the sled was was also female so I joined them with some cables:


I felt pretty good about this, but alas, it was still ID 4. I again have up on trying to change the ID, and instead tried added an env variable swap=dks0d4s1, and for good measure root=dks0d4s0. This also did nothing.

Here is my fx partition data on the hard disk:


At this point, I am at a loss. What am I missing?

Any help is appreciated!