[weblacky]

Hi,
I wrote the article you referenced, I tried to look back at my work, and I think I still got it right (I may have reversed it myself, but I checked two drives I have and ID Bit 2 is opposite Ground column on the sled connector on both my drives, so I think it's valid). But it's hard to follow your coloring because the connectors are hard to clearly see in your picture. Let's assume your connectors follow colors and don't change colors between connections :-) Let's also assume white goes to brown. Keep brown where it is, it's correct.

Unless I'm misreading the colors, I think you transposed the upper wires 180 degrees.

You are correct, where you but the "bit" wires versus the single "ground" wire on the drive. So the upper vs lower is organized correctly - live vs ground is correct. But I think the order of your upper isn't right.

From your picture, I think your wires are currently attached to the sled connector in this order:

Orange = ID bit 0
Yellow = ID Bit 1
Blue = ID Bit 2


So looking right at your drive connection picture, I assume you should be 2, 1, 0 = Blue, Yellow, Orange

If you mix up the top row, your ID bit 0, triggers position 4 (ID 4) on your jumper. I think I have this right. So please flip your drive-side connector to match what I've indicated and see if that works. Normally repeated ID 4 means you've rotated the order of bits 180 degrees, swap Orange and blue on the drive-side by turning your connector 180 degrees around and plugging it back in.

Let me know, I'd hate to find out my info was wrong :-(

In regards to formatting, Irix formatting is weird. There are two options for drive layout: Root drive (RO) and Option Drive. You have to have a root drive layout to install an OS, "option drive" layouts allow the system to know it's for data-only and no OS is there. So you need to use FX to auto-create a root drive (RO)

I believe it's: Repartition, Auto, RO

Hopefully that unstuck you :-)