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

From: Fabian Hänsel <fabtagon_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sat Dec 11 11:06:18 2004

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
Received on Sat Dec 11 2004 - 11:06:18 GMT