I inventoried my SCSI disks today, with the thought that I am enjoying the octane, I had better clone the root disk so I have a disk fail I can get up and running faster. Looking at my disks, I have 5 drives total, and none are the same size, ranging wildly from 73GB to 2GB. So I sipped my espresso this morning and looked on eBay and almost pulled the trigger on another 73GB drive. Instead I revisited my goal of getting the SCSI2SD to boot.
last week I probably missed something but I tried it internally in all slots, with many settings variations and never once did I get it recognized by the system. I will be happy when someone finds what I missed since having it internally would be more tidy.
Running the SCSI2SD on the Octane is far snappier than my O2 300MHz R5200 which I was using for learning C, so speed is obviously not my main priority, but compared to O2, the Octane feels completely different, I will develop on the Octane from now on. I am using a 32GB "SanDisk Extreme" microSD in an SD adapter (because that's what I had on hand). I don't yet know how robust microSD vs. regular SD are, but once I had all my apps and C source on the SD, it is very easy to clone.
I started by putting an old 9GB SCSI in the lower slot and installing IRIX 6.5.30 from scratch, setting it up the way I like it and copying all my C source to it from the Mac. Then I shutdown and installed the SCSI2SD to the Octane external SCSI via an old O2 CDROM cable and a 68-to-50 pin adapter. Then following Ian's "Disk and File System Administration" guide (thanks for the link Stormy) I cloned the 9GB root disk to the SDcard.
Then I pulled the root disk out and started the machine. At the hinv I typed: boot -f dksc(1,1,8)sash64 dksc(1,1,0)unix root=dks1d1s0 and booted the machine.
Like music and movies we all have different SGI tastes. For me learning graphics, low-end SGI graphics are a good fit and SD disk speeds are enough.
Cheers,
KB
last week I probably missed something but I tried it internally in all slots, with many settings variations and never once did I get it recognized by the system. I will be happy when someone finds what I missed since having it internally would be more tidy.
Running the SCSI2SD on the Octane is far snappier than my O2 300MHz R5200 which I was using for learning C, so speed is obviously not my main priority, but compared to O2, the Octane feels completely different, I will develop on the Octane from now on. I am using a 32GB "SanDisk Extreme" microSD in an SD adapter (because that's what I had on hand). I don't yet know how robust microSD vs. regular SD are, but once I had all my apps and C source on the SD, it is very easy to clone.
I started by putting an old 9GB SCSI in the lower slot and installing IRIX 6.5.30 from scratch, setting it up the way I like it and copying all my C source to it from the Mac. Then I shutdown and installed the SCSI2SD to the Octane external SCSI via an old O2 CDROM cable and a 68-to-50 pin adapter. Then following Ian's "Disk and File System Administration" guide (thanks for the link Stormy) I cloned the 9GB root disk to the SDcard.
Then I pulled the root disk out and started the machine. At the hinv I typed: boot -f dksc(1,1,8)sash64 dksc(1,1,0)unix root=dks1d1s0 and booted the machine.
Like music and movies we all have different SGI tastes. For me learning graphics, low-end SGI graphics are a good fit and SD disk speeds are enough.
Cheers,
KB