Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ADENOSINE.PHARM.UTAH.EDU!davis From: davis@ADENOSINE.PHARM.UTAH.EDU ("Darrell R. Davis") Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: SGI add on hard drives Message-ID: <9005300444.AA21192@adenosine.pharm.utah.edu> Date: 30 May 90 04:44:40 GMT References: <9005292309.AA06861@snow-white.merit-tech.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 on Tue, 29 May 90 18:09:09 CDT, Mike Goss said: Mike> Posted-Date: Tue, 29 May 90 18:09:09 CDT Mike> Received-Date: Tue, 29 May 90 18:31:12 MDT > From: Dan Watts Mike> Seagate bought Imprimis (formerly the disk drive division of CDC) Mike> recently, so the Seagate drive you are looking at may actually be an I have installed several Imprimis drives on PI's, a couple of 380's and also 2 766's. The 380's were from SGI and I bought the 760's raw from a company called Almac in Seattle. In addition, I know of a third party vendor who is putting together a SCSI tower that holds 4 disks (take your pick from 380, 760 or 1600 Mbyte). Some of this I've posted before. Anyway, the fx utility seems to work fine for all of these guys, though I haven't personally tried it on the 1.2's. As I see it, the key to the process is to set the SCSI address correctly (with jumpers) I believe 5 and 2 are the most commonly used. The system gets upset if there is an address conflict, this is from experience. Power up the machine, then check that everything is hunky-dory using the hinv command. You can then format the disk using fx, I actually found the man page comforting in this case to convince yourself that you are not re-formatting your other disks. Supposedly fx will correctly format a 1.2G (I hear this is an overnight proposition). To set up the file system, SGI provides a nice script called 'Add_disk' there is a man page for Add_disk, basically it does all of the steps required to create the filesystem and mount it. P.S. One of the CDC 760's has been going for about 1.2 years, the other for 6 months. -------------------------------------------------------------- * Darrell R. Davis * * * "Faster, faster, until the Assistant Professor * * * thrill of speed overcomes Medicinal Chemistry *A**L**T**A* the fear of death." University of Utah * * * * * * --H.S. Thompson * --------------------------------------------------------------