From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Sep 4 13:55:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2118A37B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87D243E42 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:55:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g84KtYfO024893; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:55:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g84KtXDp024892; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:55:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: Mikko Tyolajarvi , freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun AXi boot success Message-ID: <20020904205533.GA24859@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20020904143637.F96461@ida.interface-business.de> <20020904090938.R69871-100000@atlas.home> <20020904211701.A7085@ida.interface-business.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020904211701.A7085@ida.interface-business.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:17:01PM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > Do you really need it? I haven't yet tried with the AXi, but with > other Suns, and always found that the treat that you need a Sun- > approved SCSI card is just marketing hype. Openboot can handle the > Symbios Logic controllers pretty well by itself. (Maybe the AXi > would need an Openboot upgrade first, which will become really > hard if you don't have a running disk attached to it...) I have *never* seen this work on PCI-based Suns. I have only ever been able to get SCSI controllers with OB FW to "probe-scsi-all" or to boot from them. Are you sure you've done this on PCI-based Suns? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message