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I'm having some trouble getting a recently aquired Intraserver
ITI-6021E combo video/dual ethernet PCI card to work in my Enterprise
450. Unfortunately, my Sun hobby (obsession) doesn't have a huge
budget, so I tend to buy parts on a "good deal" only basis. I found
this card on eBay for under $40.

The card is based on the ATI Rage IIC chipset, and claims to work in
any UltraSparc system with BootProm 3.X or higher according to the
manual. I can't recall my bootprom version offhand, but I would
assume by the date (1997) that it is the original version that came
with the box. It is a version 3.x, though.

The problem is the system will not boot with the card in the PCI slot
under normal circumstances. Upon first boot, I receieved a message
about being unable to open the input device via the TTY console, but
no further messages were passed along. After manually setting the
input and output devices via openboot to the serial console, the
system would boot fine. Probing the system with a show-devs indicated
that both the video and dual ethernet interfaces were detected and I
assume functioning. Resetting the system with a STOP-N didn't help
either; it now hangs without any message to the TTY console.

Where should I go from here? Figure out how to update the bootprom?
Give up and buy a PGX32?

On 18 Jul 2003 16:28:14 GMT
dol@ce.chalmers.se (Fredrik Lundholm) wrote:

> In article <a035101b.0307180729.b920fb4@posting.google.com> ,
> Matt Parnell <newsgroups@weatherstamp.com> wrote:
>
> >Where should I go from here? Figure out how to update the bootprom?
>
> This is a failry trivial task. Dowload patch 106122-10 and follow the
> instructions in the README file.
>
> >Give up and buy a PGX32?
>
> Well should be a fairly cheap solution, BTW if you want very good graphics
> cheap as a rock, look at the motherboard and see if you have any
> UPA-slots!
>
> Horizontal ("SBus") Creator cards can be had for nothing.
>

Somehow i don't think a horizontal formfactor creator would fit into a E450



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Barbie - Prayers are like junkmail for Jesus

I have seen things you lusers would not believe.
I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
Time to die.

You know, I didn't even think about that. I remember inspecting the
box and noticing the UPA slots, not even considering buying a Creator
2D/3D. I have one of the original 300 MHz limited e450 boxes. It was
all my budget can currently afford ;-)

I'm going to try patching the bootprom tomorrow and see what happens.

Thanks for the help!

dol@ce.chalmers.se (Fredrik Lundholm) wrote in message news:<bf9k04$ho2$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se>...
> In article <20030718204552.05f07498.barbie@toppoint.de>,
> Barbie LeVile <barbie@toppoint.de> wrote:
>
> >> Well should be a fairly cheap solution, BTW if you want very good graphics
> >> cheap as a rock, look at the motherboard and see if you have any
> >> UPA-slots!
> >>
> >> Horizontal ("SBus") Creator cards can be had for nothing.
> >>
> >
> >Somehow i don't think a horizontal formfactor creator would fit into a E450
> >
>
> Well, think again! Somehow Sun managed this feat.
> Although removed on the latest 400MHZ plus E450:s-
>
> /wfr
> Fredrik

Sure enough, updating the OpenBoot from 3.5 to 3.26 (a five year date
span!) solved all the issues.

I'm going to have to browse around this newsgroup more often, it seems
quite helpful. Thanks!

On 18 Jul 2003 20:06:28 GMT
dol@ce.chalmers.se (Fredrik Lundholm) wrote:

> In article <20030718204552.05f07498.barbie@toppoint.de>,
> Barbie LeVile <barbie@toppoint.de> wrote:
>
> >> Well should be a fairly cheap solution, BTW if you want very good
> >graphics> cheap as a rock, look at the motherboard and see if you have
> >any> UPA-slots!
> >>
> >> Horizontal ("SBus") Creator cards can be had for nothing.
> >>
> >
> >Somehow i don't think a horizontal formfactor creator would fit into a
> >E450
>
> Well, think again! Somehow Sun managed this feat.
> Although removed on the latest 400MHZ plus E450:s-
>

You surely mean the vertical creator for pci based systems, since the e450
doesn't has sbus. its slot are aligned 90 degress different



--
Barbie - Prayers are like junkmail for Jesus

I have seen things you lusers would not believe.
I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
Time to die.

Barbie LeVile wrote:
>
> dol@ce.chalmers.se (Fredrik Lundholm) wrote:
>
> > Barbie LeVile <barbie@toppoint.de> wrote:
> >
> > >> Well should be a fairly cheap solution, BTW if you want very good
> > >graphics> cheap as a rock, look at the motherboard and see if you have
> > >any> UPA-slots!
> > >>
> > >> Horizontal ("SBus") Creator cards can be had for nothing.
> > >
> > >Somehow i don't think a horizontal formfactor creator would fit into a
> > >E450
> >
> > Well, think again! Somehow Sun managed this feat.
> > Although removed on the latest 400MHZ plus E450:s-
>
> You surely mean the vertical creator for pci based systems, since the e450
> doesn't has sbus. its slot are aligned 90 degress different

UPA isn't SBUS.

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