Hi techies

I just picked up a new a used E220R from eBay. Unfortunately, it came
without harddisks. For test purpose, we've installed a graphics adaptor
(Raptor), attached a keyboard and turned it on.
The Sun showed the status messages (3 or 4 lines; memory, cpu etc.) but NO
prompt. I tried to get it with STOP-A with success.

Is this behavior normal for a system without disks?

Jochen

Jochen Gatternig <jochen@gatternig.com> wrote:
> Hi techies

> I just picked up a new a used E220R from eBay. Unfortunately, it came
> without harddisks. For test purpose, we've installed a graphics adaptor
> (Raptor), attached a keyboard and turned it on.
> The Sun showed the status messages (3 or 4 lines; memory, cpu etc.) but NO
> prompt. I tried to get it with STOP-A with success.

> Is this behavior normal for a system without disks?

In general, no. I've seen some scsi controllers confused to the point
that they wouldn't initialize and let the OBP proceed, but simply
removing the disks from a 220 shouldn't do that.

Can you put the key in the 'diag' position and get any extra output
during POST?

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