[Fascia]

I have a fresh harddrive in my Fuel and trying to get it formatted. It sees the drive just fine and it's listed in hinv as dksc(0,1,0). But when I start fx and tell it ctrl 0 and drive 1, it errors:

fx: Warning: Failed to open scsi(0)disk(1)part(10)

And loops back to asking for the device address again. How can it be looking for a partition on an empty drive that the tool is meant to partition?

[weblacky]

Can you please post the command you used to start FX?

[Fascia]

Certainly,

Code:

boot -f cdrom(1,6,8)sash64 cdrom(1,6,7)stand/fx.64 --x

Reading the "Disks and Filesystems" techpub, it seems partition 10 in EFS/XFS is for addressing the disk as a whole. But it's a convention with EFS/XFS, and I wouldn't expect a disk that isn't initialized to have that setup.

[weblacky]

Newer Irix versions on Fuel:

boot -f dksc(0,4,8)sash64
boot -f dksc(0,4,7)stand/fx.64 --x


From here: https://software.majix.org/irix/install-bootcd.shtml

Try these two commands like this, instead of one, and see where you get this time. (assuming CDROM on ID 4).

[Fascia]

Same outcome. After all, fx starts up just fine. fx prompts for the ctrl, drive, and lun (0, 1, and 0 respectively) then spits out the error that it can't open scsi(0)disk(1)part(10)

[weblacky]

Are you typing in the numbers and pressing enter at the FX prompts? The guides I read claim that if you use DISK ID1 for boot disk you need to just press enter on the prompts and not type anything until you get to the main menu of fx:

boot -f dksc(X,Y,8)sash64 dksc(X,Y,7)stand/fx.64 --x

http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/6.5inst.html

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Oh also, I should note that I've had issues myself with old SGI disks...yeah I always needed to DD the first part of the drive's partition table to blank it before running FX. On a DOS disk, fine, but another previous SGI disk...no. It would kind of act like this. Is this disk drive from another SGI station, are you trying to "repartition" another previous SGI disk? If so, I'd rather use another SGI IRIX OS to wipe/partition it or use a Linux SCSI machine to wipe the drive. Only blank drives or DOS partitioned drive worked for me in FX without major hassle.

This got so stupid that back in the day, I used to just set up new Rootdisk (RO) drives but partitioning the drive on another SGI, then installing it in the destination machine, then just went right into the SASH ARCs install menu and go. No FX needed. Helps only if you own a lot of machines though.

[Fascia]

Indeed, I was just pressing enter for the defaults. No manual entry. It's a process I've been through many times, but for some reason it's hanging up here. I wonder if it could be a symptom of a bad disk?

[Fascia]

I have resolved the issue. In this case, the jumper configuration on the drive's controller board was invalid.