Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:34:25 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.lcs.mit.edu>, sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: woo-hoo! Message-ID: <20011122233425.B16804@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20011122125713.D57107@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200111220346.fAM3kBB26761@hergotha.lcs.mit.edu> <200111220418.fAM4IFP58916@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200111220346.fAM3kBB26761@hergotha.lcs.mit.edu> <20011121195704.C57107@dragon.nuxi.com> <200111220418.fAM4IFP58916@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20011122132333.A13743@cicely8.cicely.de> <20011122125713.D57107@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:57:13PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:23:33PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > But you need the Sun version of the controller because of the open
> > firmware bios.
> > The first important point is if probe-scsi-all of the rom-monitor finds
> > the controller and devices.
>
> The controller was bought straight from Sun. Drives hanging off it are
> found by 'prove-scsi-all'. I also put an Adaptec AHA-2940 and Qlogic
> 1080 in the machine. Neither of those controllers are seen in
> 'probe-scsi-all'. Is 'probe-scsi-all' the litmus test for bootability?
Yes - AFAIK its also needed to work after booting.
It shows that the SCSI-chain works and the controller is recognised by
the rom software.
The controller iopath should be listed even without connected devices.
Otherwise I would asume there is something wrong with the bios on the
controller card.
IIRC probe-scsi-all also shows your IDE devices.
> Do you have any idea what boot device I should be using? disk{0,1,2,3}
> are all aliased as IDE disks.
probe-scsi-all gives you the iopath to the controller.
Take this path and add /sd@3,0:a for drive id 3 lun 0 partition a.
You can also redefine the aliasnames or define new ones.
See the output from the devalias command.
It's sometimes easier to use 'words' to get help than the 'help'
command itself.
--
B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de
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