[mchartmann]

Ok, I messed up

I knew that I would want to reinstall IRIX on my Octanes because I was going to swap in some bigger hard drives and I really wanted to start with a clean system.

So I purchased myself an External SCSI drive so that I could install Irix.  What I actually purchased, however, was an IBM 7210-025 External SCSI DVD-Ram drive by mistake.

Through IRIX, I can see it fine, it ejects and runs like a CDRom drive but I have had no luck in reading anything from it due to a difference between the hardwares sector size and the Octanes assumed sector sizes (I think?)  From the prom command prompt I can see it, even LS it to see the files on the drive but it fails when I try to read.

So anyway I think I have 2 options left if I don't want to find another external SCSI drive.
1)  find some setenv variable to inform the Octane of what the drive needs to function ok
or
2) install it across the network from one Octane to another.

So right now I am downloading
ftp.irix.cc/pub/irix-os/irix-6.5/disc-images/
and
ftp.irix.cc/pub/irix-os/irix-6.5/network-installs/irix-6.5.22/

My question is, should I try to burn the disc images to the DVD-Ram drive (on a cd recordable, not a dvd recordable) from the octane and see if that gives me a better result or should I go down the network install route.

If I do decide to do a network install from one Octane to another, is there a set of instructions somewhere that I can use with the files I am downloading from Irix.cc???

I use a couple Toshiba scsi cdroms, xm3501b, and xm5301b common for SGI systems. Works great in my Indigo 2s