Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:11:47 +0800 From: Tan Heng Chai <hengchai@gmail.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> Cc: "sparc64@freebsd.org" <sparc64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: E3500/E4500 not supported? Message-ID: <b590cdf405012709115b79665c@mail.gmail.com>
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I have a E4000 with an I/O board that has 2x SBUS ISP based cards. The ESP driver for the onboard SCSI works perfectly for booting. Instead, its the ISP based cards I have problems with booting. Scott Long wrote: > Hiroki Sato wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is the following description in www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml still true? > > > > The following systems are supported, but can only be netbooted due to > > the onboard scsi controller being unsupported. Work is underway to add > > support for this scsi controller. These systems may work with the esp > > driver imported from NetBSD. > > > > - Enterprise 3500 > > - Enterprise 4500 > > > > I tried 5.3-RELEASE on E4500 with SBus I/O board but the SCSI > > controller (FAS366) was recognized as esp(4) and it seemed to work fine. > > Although I do not know the PCI board-only case, I think it should > > be explained in sparc.sgml. Did somebody try these machines? > > > > I didn't know that such beasts existed. If they have a FAS366 and you > are confirming that they work, then I see nothing wrong with correcting > the text. Note that our esp driver only works with SBUS, so I'm not > sure what you mean about PCI. > > Scott
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