Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:46:14 -0500 From: "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com> To: "'ticso@cicely.de'" <ticso@cicely.de> Cc: 'Steven' <steven@trance.org>, 'Eduardo Damato' <damato@unesp.br>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Hard Disk not found Message-ID: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E252C@waexch1.qgraph.com>
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What does the bootdef_dev variable contain? -----Original Message----- From: Bernd Walter [mailto:ticso@cicely5.cicely.de] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 11:11 AM To: Schroeder, Aaron Cc: 'ticso@cicely.de'; 'Steven'; 'Eduardo Damato'; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk not found On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:40:56AM -0500, Schroeder, Aaron wrote: > I haven't forgotten about you. > > I have the "official" digital documentation sitting at home that describes > in great detail as to what each of those numbers means. I will reference > that and see what it exactly means and get back to you. > > I don't want to lead you down the wrong path, but here is my initial guess: > > Your device pka0.7.1001.0 is a SCSI card on the first bus, SCSI ID 7. You > may have to play around with it, but if you 'sho pka*' SRM will sho your > settings of that SCSI card on your system. From there, you can modify the > host id, the SCSI mode, and you can enable/disable soft-termination. I know that pka is a SCSI channel, but which disk does it mean? I don't know what the 1001 mean. I can't show anything without entering the right password first. The point is that I want to setup a drive which matches the already configured (and unchangeable) bootpath. > The same holds true with network cards. I know here, my network guys force > all servers to 100/Full. If I 'sho ewa*' I get a ton of options to set on > the network card, I just play with the duplexing settings rather then play > around with ifconfig. BSD takes what the SRM gives it as far as network card > settings. > > About the password, 'ls' on your SRM, are there any commands in there > similar to 'clear_nvram' or 'clear_srm_rom' or 'clear_arc'? I seem to > remember seeing that on a Alpha box that I was playing around with. That's chicken-egg - you can't use these commands without entering the old password first. SRM is *very* restricted without entering the right password. Some Documentation (for other machines) mention a mechanism using the halt key, but that doesn't work for this box - neither seriel nor vga. > Here is what I can remember off the top of my head about SRM devices: > > dkaX - SCSI disk devices on the first bus, other disks on secondary > busses are dkbX, dkcX, dkdX, etc. > dqaX - IDE device on the first bus, other busses are dqbX, dqcX, > etc. > dvaX - Floppy > ewaX - NIC, other NICs are ewbX, ewcX, etc. > pkaX - SCSI card on the first SCSI bus. Other busses are pkbX, pkcX, > etc. > pqaX - First IDE controller, other controllers are pqbX, pqcX, etc. > mkaX - Tape drive I know - but that didn't helped me setting up a drive that matches pka0.7.1001.0. What puzzles me is that to bootpath is configured to a controller plus parameters instead of just e.g. dka0. > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:45:19AM -0500, Schroeder, Aaron wrote: > You seem to know a bit on SRMs disk capabilities. > Is it possible for you (or someone else on the list) to explain the > following device path: pka0.7.0.1001.0 ? > It's configured in an AS600 for which the SRM console password is not > available. > Every atempt to clear that password has been failed. > I already thought about unsoldering the NVRAM. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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