CD-ROM not mounting on Origin 2000

UNIX Museum · *nix forums beginner Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 40

Hi there,
I'm trying to install IRIX 6.5 on an Origin 2000 deskside, this should
be very straight forward, but I'm being bugged by the CD-ROM...

The first hurdle came when the original CD-ROM started to act up, i.e.
would not close, but eject itself automatically. I know this is
potentially a simple super glue job, but I decided to go another route:
get a new sys controller+CD module to replace the one I had.

This module is newer than the one I have, i.e. the CD-ROM is of a newer
kind (XM-5701 vs. XM-5401), and I'm wondering if this is not the cause
of all this trouble that I am experiencing now: I am unable to mount any
kind of CD, software install reports "media error" right away...

I booted the Origin from a 6.4 disk and am unable to mount any CDs
either, syslog shows constant retries (and failures) on the CD-ROM... I
also fx'd a root drive on the Origin from an external CD-ROM (just to
make sure something was at least working properly on the Origin), but
IRIX won't let me install from there, it wants to use the internal CD-ROM...

Someone on nekochan had a similar issue on Origin and fixed it by doing
a resetenv in the PROM monitor, but I don't have that kind of luck...

Any suggestion? I'm thinking it must be some kind of SCSI issue
(termination, ...)

Google