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Hi guys!
Having been a happy i386/iopenbsd user fior years, I recently found one
Ultrasparc 5 with just a CDRom drive sitting on a shelf at work.
So I put in a Maxtor 6Y120P0 120Gb, but the machine won't recognize
more than fraction of disk space.
So I put in a Promise UltraDMA 133 ide controller in PCI slot 2 and
voila! I'am able see all the disk and install OpenBSD 3.5 with no
problems to wd0.

Now comes the problem.
When I reboot the system it won't even try to boot from the disk.
I assume this has to do with the Openboot or whatever this Sun bios is
called. As an almost total newbie on Sun hardware, is there anyone out
there who knows a/the method to be able to boot directly from this
drive?

I have included below then "show-devs" and "devalias" from from
Openboot, plus dmesg, which show the Maxtor at "pciide1 at pci2 dev 2"
etc.

Anyone know a way to set this up ?

Thanks in advance!
Rani

(please remove X's from mail-address if responding directly)


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ok show-devs
/SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi@0,0
/pci@1f,0
/virtual-memory
/memory@0,10000000
/aliases
/options
/openprom
/chosen
/packages
/pci@1f,0/pci@1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci105a,4d68@2
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci105a,4d68@2
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/SUNW,m64B@2
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/pci108e,1000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/SUNW,m64B@2
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/SUNW,CS4231@14,200000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/flashprom@10,0
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/eeprom@14,0
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/fdthree@14,3023f0
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/ecpp@14,3043bc
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3062f8
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3083f8
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/se@14,400000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/SUNW,pll@14,504000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/power@14,724000
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/auxio@14,726000
/openprom/client-services
/packages/sun-keyboard
/packages/SUNW,builtin-drivers
/packages/disk-label
/packages/obp-tftp
/packages/deblocker
/packages/terminal-emulator
ok
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and
ok devalias
screen /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/SUNW,m64B@2
net /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1
cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f
disk /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0
disk3 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@3,0
disk2 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@2,0
disk1 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@1,0
disk0 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0
ide /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3
floppy /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/fdthree
ttyb /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/se:b
ttya /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/se:a
keyboard! /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3083f8:forcemode
keyboard /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3083f8
mouse /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3062f8
name aliases
ok
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plus of course
OpenBSD 3.5 (RAMDISK) #113: Mon Mar 29 16:37:43 MST 2004

deraadt@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/RAMDISK
total memory = 268435456
avail memory = 241975296
using 1638 buffers containing 13418496 bytes of memory
bootpath: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3,0/cdrom@2,0:f
mainbus0 (root): Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz)
cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi @ 360 MHz, version 0 FPU
cpu0: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 256K
external (64 b/l)
psycho0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfffc4000
SUNW,sabre: impl 0, version 0: ign 7c0 bus range 0 to 2; PCI bus 0
DVMA map: c0000000 to e0000000
IOTDB: 10f64000 to 10fe4000
pci0 at psycho0
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 vendor 0x108e product 0x5000 rev 0x13
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
ebus0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 vendor 0x108e product 0x1000 rev 0x01
auxio0 at ebus0 addr 726000-726003, 728000-728003, 72a000-72a003,
72c000-72c003, 72f000-72f003
power at ebus0 addr 724000-724003 ipl 37 not configured
SUNW,pll at ebus0 addr 504000-504002 not configured
se at ebus0 addr 400000-40007f ipl 43 not configured
su at ebus0 addr 3083f8-3083ff ipl 41 not configured
su at ebus0 addr 3062f8-3062ff ipl 42 not configured
ecpp at ebus0 addr 3043bc-3043cb, 30015c-30015d, 700000-70000f ipl 34
not configured
fdthree at ebus0 addr 3023f0-3023f7, 706000-70600f, 720000-720003 ipl 39
not configured
clock0 at ebus0 addr 0-1fff: mk48t59: hostid 80c1271e
flashprom at ebus0 addr 0-fffff not configured
SUNW,CS4231 at ebus0 addr 200000-2000ff, 702000-70200f, 704000-70400f,
722000-722003 ipl 35 ipl 36 not configured
hme0 at pci1 dev 1 function 1 vendor 0x108e product 0x1001 rev 0x01:
address 08:00:20:c1:27:1e
nsphy0 at hme0 phy 1: DP83840 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
hme0: using ivec 3021 for interrupt
vendor 0x1002 product 0x4750 (class display subclass VGA, rev 0x5c) at
pci1 dev 2 function 0 not configured
pciide0 at pci1 dev 3 function 0 vendor 0x1095 product 0x0646 rev 0x03:
DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-
PCI
pciide0: using ivec 1820 for native-PCI interrupt
pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives)
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <LG, CD-ROM CRD-8322B, 1.05> SCSI0 5/cdrom
removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
ppb1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 vendor 0x108e product 0x5000 rev 0x13
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
pciide1 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 vendor 0x105a product 0x4d69 rev 0x02:
DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-
PCI
pciide1: using ivec 14 for native-PCI interrupt
wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 6Y120P0>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 117246MB, 240121728 sectors
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pcons0 at mainbus0
No counter-timer -- using %tick at 360MHz as system clock.
rd0: fixed, 6144 blocks
root on rd0a
rootdev=0x500 rrootdev=0x3d00 rawdev=0x3d02

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Rani Hansen wrote:

> So I put in a Promise UltraDMA 133 ide controller in PCI slot 2 and
> voila! I'am able see all the disk and install OpenBSD 3.5 with no
> problems to wd0.
>
> Now comes the problem.
> When I reboot the system it won't even try to boot from the disk.
> I assume this has to do with the Openboot or whatever this Sun bios is
> called. As an almost total newbie on Sun hardware, is there anyone out
> there who knows a/the method to be able to boot directly from this
> drive?

i'm pretty sure you can't. the firmware will only talk to a limited set
of controllers it knows about. this isn't like a pc which emulates some
lowest common denominator controller. you'll have to add a boot drive
onto the main channel.

--

In article <Pine.GSO.4.44.0410022307580.1673-100000
@elaine12.Stanford.EDU>, tedu@stanford.edu says...
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Rani Hansen wrote:
>
> > So I put in a Promise UltraDMA 133 ide controller in PCI slot 2 and
> > voila! I'am able see all the disk and install OpenBSD 3.5 with no
> > problems to wd0.
> >
> > Now comes the problem.
> > When I reboot the system it won't even try to boot from the disk.
> > I assume this has to do with the Openboot or whatever this Sun bios is
> > called. As an almost total newbie on Sun hardware, is there anyone out
> > there who knows a/the method to be able to boot directly from this
> > drive?
>
> i'm pretty sure you can't. the firmware will only talk to a limited set
> of controllers it knows about. this isn't like a pc which emulates some
> lowest common denominator controller. you'll have to add a boot drive
> onto the main channel.
>
>

I sort of realized that myself, so I put in another drive to boot the
system. Works like a charm.
Thx anyways.

The U5's IDE controller is the slowest thing on the planet.
It's so slow it's very sad. I intended to use mine as a samba file
server but it couldn't even saturate 100Mbit (writing to disk over
network) while a crappy PC with the same drive had no problems. If it
wasn't for the damned IDE controller it would be a great machine.
--
Sean

Sean <seancody@gmail.com> wrote:
:The U5's IDE controller is the slowest thing on the planet.
:It's so slow it's very sad. I intended to use mine as a samba file
:server but it couldn't even saturate 100Mbit (writing to disk over
:network) while a crappy PC with the same drive had no problems. If it
:wasn't for the damned IDE controller it would be a great machine.

Find yourself a Symbios Logic 53c875. They boot from the U5 prom and support
lots of SCSI devices.

sd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <IBM, IC35L018UWD210-0, S5CS> disk fixed
sd0: 17501 MB, 20765 cyl, 6 head, 287 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 35843670 sectors
sd0: sync (50.00ns offset 16), 16-bit (40.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing

That's with NetBSD, but OpenBSD should be the same.
--
Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com www.rmkhome.com

rmk@toad.rmkhome.com wrote:

> Find yourself a Symbios Logic 53c875. They boot from the U5 prom and support
> lots of SCSI devices.

I bought up a couple of old Diamond Fireport 40 cards from eBay a while
back because they're NCR/Symbios 53c875 based. They'll even work out of
the box in Solaris because Sun's older PCI SCSI cards were based on the
same chipset. The Tekram 390F is another one to look for.

-Gary