NeXT
Veteran Member
I have an SGI O2 running 6.5.29 and at some point in the past while trying to make an MO volume automount I broke mediad.
The icon for the CD-rom no longer appears on anyone's desktop, you insert a disc it doesn't automount to /CDROM, Irix sees there is a CD drive at the correct SCSI ID and both I can boot a miniroot from the CD and if I leave a CD in the drive while booting it will spin up and lock the eject button (but not mount), so you need to use EJECT to open the tray, so the drive both recognizes and can read media.
I must of either bungled or overwritten a config file somewhere but I don't know where, or how and this would of been more than half a decade ago. I didn't make any additional tweaks beforehand so even if I could see what the default config files look like that might be helpful.
I've asked the other Irix forums and their response is "reinstall irix" which sounds completely asinine.
The icon for the CD-rom no longer appears on anyone's desktop, you insert a disc it doesn't automount to /CDROM, Irix sees there is a CD drive at the correct SCSI ID and both I can boot a miniroot from the CD and if I leave a CD in the drive while booting it will spin up and lock the eject button (but not mount), so you need to use EJECT to open the tray, so the drive both recognizes and can read media.
I must of either bungled or overwritten a config file somewhere but I don't know where, or how and this would of been more than half a decade ago. I didn't make any additional tweaks beforehand so even if I could see what the default config files look like that might be helpful.
I've asked the other Irix forums and their response is "reinstall irix" which sounds completely asinine.