rodney@dgp.toronto.edu (Rodney Hoinkes) (08/02/90)
We are looking into purchasing a few of these drives (Wren IV) for our IRIS's but we are uncertain as to the requirements of hooking them up to primarily Personal Iris's, but potentially a 70GT as well. On the PI, is it simply a matter of hooking it into the SCSI port, plugging it into the wall (it's own power supply), and sicking fx onto it? Does anyone know if device drivers exist for this drive (320Meg) ? On the GT, we have little idea of what is required for hookup. We currently have a 380Meg ESDI drive and controller, but hinv also says we have a WD33C93 SCSI controller. Any technical help would be appreciated. --- Rodney Hoinkes Centre for Landscape Research University of Toronto rodney@dgp.toronto.edu
olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (08/03/90)
In <1990Aug1.133136.4621@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> rodney@dgp.toronto.edu (Rodney Hoinkes) writes: | We are looking into purchasing a few of these drives (Wren IV) | for our IRIS's but we are uncertain as to the requirements of | hooking them up to primarily Personal Iris's, but potentially | a 70GT as well. | | On the PI, is it simply a matter of hooking it into the SCSI | port, plugging it into the wall (it's own power supply), and | sicking fx onto it? Does anyone know if device drivers exist | for this drive (320Meg) ? | | On the GT, we have little idea of what is required for hookup. | We currently have a 380Meg ESDI drive and controller, but hinv | also says we have a WD33C93 SCSI controller. | | Any technical help would be appreciated. | You are on the right track with fx. The Wren IV has been shipped on all of the 4D platforms, and is a fairly reliable drive. There have been a few firmware revs on this drive with problems that show up primarily on the PI (or the IO3 board) due to the higher transfer rates. Start up fx as 'fx -x' since you need to be in expert mode. Since you have a non-SGI drive anyway, just use the 'auto' choice. This will set parameters to default values, format the drive, create a partition table, and write it out. You should then be able to make a filesytem on it with mkfs or 'Add_disk', add it to your fstab, and away you go. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.