[windows95se]

I have two O2’s: a 1996 O2 and a 2000 O2. I connected them both over serial and both on the same port number with a null modem cable because one of them (the 2000 O2) needed resetting but because it has the flat panel adapter installed, it would only show a black screen. I was attempting to reset over serial like others had done. I plugged the 2000 O2 into my 1996 O2 to reset in the console (my 1996 O2 ran perfectly fine with IRIX 6.5.30). However, my 1996 O2 froze forcing me to restart it. When I restarted it, the 1996 O2 wouldn’t boot into IRIX, instead loading this message:

Cannot load /sash. 
No default device and path in environment. 
Unable to execute /sash: invalid argument
Unable to load bootfile: invalid argument 
Unable to boot; press any key to continue: 

When I press enter, the screen glitches which it has never done before. I’ve read in places that there’s a thing called ‘serial mode’, which is what I thought it was in but when I try to access drives in the command monitor, it outputs ‘Resetting SCSI bus; Restarting sequencer’ 4 times before outputting ‘dks0d1s0: volume header not valid; dksc(0,1,0): not a directory’. It also won’t let me access the CD drive in the menus or in the command monitor, only letting me access remote tape drives and remote CD drives. Is it possible that the SCSI is dead or is it just in a different setting? Thanks.