Nekonomicon - Nabbed an RS/6000 7043/43p, figuring out what to do with it

bluecode
Who joined Dec. 13, 2011, 7:56 a.m.
and authored 193 notes

Wrote the following at Feb. 10, 2013, 3:55 a.m...

pentium wrote:

Is this REALLY only compatible with OS/400 and Z? Nothing from AIX? Not even from Linux?

I'd be very surprised if it works with Z. I've never seen any twinax or RS-232 stuff hooked up to any mainframe.

Usually when you say OS/400 and Z in the same sentence there is a problem :oops:

_________________
Paint It Blue

SunForSun
Who joined May 28, 2013, 8:43 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 20, 2013, 5:09 p.m...

Hi again! I have one Hitachi Ultrastar ( model: IC35L036UCDY10-0, p/n: 08K0294, 35Gb size), my SGI Octane show as :

octane4 5# fx -x
fx version 6.5, Jan 7, 2004
fx: "device-name" = (dksc)
fx: ctlr# = (0)
fx: drive# = (1) 2
fx: lun# = (0)
...opening dksc(0,2,0)
...drive selftest...OK
Scsi drive type == IBMAS400DDYS36M S27E

But, cannot label :

label info has changed for disk dksc(0,2,0). write out changes? (yes) yes
fx/exit: Error: Invalid argument: on write at block 2 for 1 block
retry #2
fx/exit: Error: Invalid argument: on write at block 2 for 1 block
retry #3
fx/exit: Error: Invalid argument: on write at block 2 for 1 block
retry #4
fx/exit: Error: Invalid argument: on write at block 2 for 1 block
fx/exit: Warning: can't write sgilabel

Cannot mkfs, fsck :

octane4 14# mkfs /dev/rdsk/dks0d2s0
bdstrat: writeb failed: I/O error
meta-data=/dev/rdsk/dks0d2s0 isize=256 agcount=33, agsize=262144 blks
data = bsize=4096 blocks=8554112, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 mixed-case=Y
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=1200
realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0
bdstrat: readb failed: I/O error
filesystem failed to initialize
octane4 15# fsck -y /dev/rdsk/dks0d2s0
fsck: I/O error

CANNOT BLOCK READ: BLK 1
CONTINUE? yes

Primary superblock inaccessible or invalid. Trying secondary.
fsck: I/O error

CANNOT BLOCK READ: BLK 68432895
CONTINUE? yes

No filesystem on /dev/rdsk/dks0d2s0

Is possible convert/format for efs filesystem ?

SunForSun
Who joined May 28, 2013, 8:43 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 20, 2013, 5:29 p.m...

Any idea which utilites or progamm there are be on IRIX ( like i scsitool, or some low-level format )?

hamei
From over the rainbow
Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 20, 2013, 7:07 p.m...

SunForSun wrote: ... or some low-level format ?

That subject used to cause endless debates in the sgi newsgroups. If you want to cut to the chase just grab any old adaptec card (back to a 2940), stick it in a peecee, and do a low-level from the BIOS. That's the quickest, cheapest, simplest, most foolproof way to accomplish this task.

he said a girl named Patches was found ...

robespierre
From Boston
Who joined Sept. 12, 2011, 2:28 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 21, 2013, 1:19 a.m...

fx> label/set/g
change data bytes/sec to 512, let other parameters default
fx> d/format
fx/debug/format: Drive parameters to use in formatting = (current)
exit and re-enter fx, and do label/create as normal, label/sync

SunForSun
Who joined May 28, 2013, 8:43 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 21, 2013, 2:41 a.m...

robespierre thanks!

octane4 1# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/dks0d2s0
* /dev/rdsk/dks0d2s0 (bootfile "/unix")
* 512 bytes/sector
Partition Type Fs Start: sec Size: sec Mount Directory
0 xfs 266240 68427776
1 raw 4096 262144
8 volhdr 0 4096
10 volume 0 68694016
octane4 2# mkfs /dev/rdsk/dks0d2s0
meta-data=/dev/rdsk/dks0d2s0 isize=256 agcount=33, agsize=262144 blks
data = bsize=4096 blocks=8553472, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 mixed-case=Y
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=1200
realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0

uridium
From Australia
Who joined July 8, 2005, 3:05 a.m.

Wrote the following at Feb. 9, 2014, 3:06 a.m...

AS/400's enjoy 520byte sectors. If I understand it correctly, you've got 512bytes for data, and 8 bytes for virtual memory extension tagging. They don't have "swap" per-say, merely things may exist and run from Primary Storage or Secondary storage.

520 byte sectors ought make most systems barf.

Low leveling it as was suggested ought slip it the bullet.

Al Boyanich
adb -w -P "world> " -k /dev/meta/galaxy/ksyms /dev/god/brain