From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Nov 18 21:30:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900DD37B405 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 21:30:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAJ6aeo18253; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 01:36:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 01:36:40 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Garrett Wollman Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 tick.c Message-ID: <20011119013640.C12724@locore.ca> References: <200111180347.fAI3lU882795@freefall.freebsd.org> <200111180349.fAI3nqE74701@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20011118163306.A12724@locore.ca> <200111190028.fAJ0SEa10262@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111190028.fAJ0SEa10262@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:28:14PM -0500 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 Apparently, On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:28:14PM -0500, Garrett Wollman said words to the effect of; > < said: > > > He has a blade 100, so far an ultra 5 you probably want my kernel. > > I have an ultra 10. The problem with these is that the cmd646 ide > > controller on the motherboard doesn't work with the ata driver, so > > you need another controller on a pci card in order to mount root off > > a disk. > > Our Ultra 5 has a dual-channel SCSI from Symbios Logic. (I nned to > check whether it's HVD or SE before I can use it, though.) Workable? Unknown :) May work if its supported by an existing scsi driver; I assume that's sym. Can you try booting this kernel over tftp? http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/main_sym.gz If all goes well it'll get to the mountroot prompt and have probed the disks properly. > > -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message