[weblacky]

"Auto" does not do what you think it does, it you interrupt it, your disk may not be accessible until you re-run "Auto" and it finishes (wastes more time). What happened was you accidentally threw it through a Low-level SCSI media format (surface rescan)...this is a one-way ticket...don't stop it...just remember NEVER TO USE AUTO AGAIN for the remainder of your time on this earth, unless you a really want to do a low-level format and know what that is.

For the future, you do this: http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/6.5inst.html

Also, Irix install DOES NOT blank media when you run it, if you run the OS install again over a previously installed disk...you'l get a partial merge of old and new. There is a "trick" to blanking the old disk label (which takes time..but much less time than "auto" does). You run FX with exe > seq > wr-o -> select all sectors > go.

That will overwrite entire surface with zeros. SGI disk label was an advanced item for it's time but UNLIKE GPT or MBR schemes, it's actually littered throughout the drive, you cannot "erase it" with just a region of blanking...to get it all...you need to wipe the entire thing (linux DD on another machine would do that too).

Please carefully read the guide, irix install is VERY UNFORGIVING, order matters!!! Take it slow, else you'll end up redoing it all again.

Also please don't install 6.3 Irix on your machine, it's a literal waste of time. Everything that was anything runs on irix 6.5...that's just life. It won't run faster, it won't be better, it will just suck more. Please install 6.5.22 to start, though you can go higher. But you'd have to ask option about that here. Most people think 6.5.22 was a great version and versions after it had some issues (I'm not certain of anything related to that). However the higher you go the more RAM you should install is it kind of bloated, also there are some things you should shutoff for runtime on later Irix OSes that have to do with the support contract software that takes up a lot of run time, so further tweaking may be needed.

I don't know if modern Linux supports SGI MIPs anymore, I think it all outdated by now? Even BSD dropped it quite a while ago. You may be back in the Linux 2.4 or 2.6 days and equally unable to do much.