From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jan 28 12:13:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CE137B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:13:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g0SKDae71323 for sparc@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:13:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:13:36 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting Sun Symbios controller (was Re: woo-hoo!) Message-ID: <20020128121336.A71257@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200111220346.fAM3kBB26761@hergotha.lcs.mit.edu> <20011121195704.C57107@dragon.nuxi.com> <200111220418.fAM4IFP58916@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20011122132333.A13743@cicely8.cicely.de> <20011122125713.D57107@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011122233425.B16804@cicely8.cicely.de> <20011123124551.G57107@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011123221653.A25559@cicely8.cicely.de> <20011123201042.Q57107@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011124115713.A32647@cicely8.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011124115713.A32647@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:57:13AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The entries below a device are dependend on the bios for the chip so I think I have an answer as to why I cannot boot using my Sun branded Symbios SCSI controller -- http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/SCSI/SCSI_Dual_UltraSCSI_PCI.html I have the 375-0005 part which does not have the FCode. AFAIK this is required to boot from OpenBoot. The version of the card with FCode was never released according to that document. :-( Considering this was a $500 card, \me kicks Sun *hard*! -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message