Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:55:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de> Cc: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikkot@pacbell.net>, freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun AXi boot success Message-ID: <20020904205533.GA24859@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020904211701.A7085@ida.interface-business.de> References: <20020904143637.F96461@ida.interface-business.de> <20020904090938.R69871-100000@atlas.home> <20020904211701.A7085@ida.interface-business.de>
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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
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