Irix-Install on SGI Indigo: RAM failure, ASQ=0x80

[Fabian Hänsel]

Jules Richardson wrote:

>>I get sashIP12 and fx.IP12 to load from cd, but using fx with that hd fails:
>>
>>    SGI Version 5.3   IP12   Oct 31, 1994
>>    fx: "device-name"= (dksc)
>>    fx: ctrl#= (0)
>>    fx: drive#= (1)
>>    ... opening dksc(0,1,)
>>    dks0d1s10: Drive not ready: RAM failure, ASQ=0x80.
>>    fx: warning: Failed to open dksc(0,1,10)
>>    SGI Version 5.3   IP12   Oct 31, 1994
>>
>
>I read that as being the RAM on the hard disk itself (cache memory; any
>SCSI drive's going to have a few KB) being faulty; i.e. it doesn't mean
>the RAM in the Indigo. 
>
enlightening ;-)  I did not really concern this option as RAM sounded to 
much like system main memory to me.

>Try a different drive. I can't remember what the Indigo uses now - I
>believe it's standard 50 pin SCSI for the drives, just the sled that the
>
yes.

>drive sits in uses a strange connector. Probably someone on the list has
>a spare drive, or someone on a local newsgroup. I've got a feeling both
>
I'll try to find one in the old-and-to-be-sold-'store' of the local 
university (or maybe two, to install NetBSD 2.0 on the second one).

>of our Indigos have 450MB drives, so they don't need anything
>particularly big.
>
I'll take a big one to install nearly all packages available on the cds, 
as the cd drive isn't my own one.

Thanks,
  Fabian