I've got a cf card running as a secondary drive on a Sparc Ultra 5 (Sparc64), but have not been able to get it to boot. The cf/ide plug I am using has no master/slave/cs sets and a microprocessor on it as well, which leaves me suspicious of it because the CF interface is sposed to be a shrunken IDE.
The sparc boot diags (probe-ide) show no device other than an ide hdd if it is attached. Also, I have experience that IDE disks are addressable after boot if the CS/MS/SL is set wrong (that is they can have mountable file systems) but will still not be bootable themselves, which further leads me to believe the CF card 2 IDE plug I have is useless for this. But I mebbe barking up the wrong tree altogether here and it is just not doable... Comments/ideas anyone? Thanks, Dhu p.s. # dmesg console is keyboard/display Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2009 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC) #1898: Sat Feb 28 17:42:44 MST 2009 dera...@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 536870912 (512MB) avail mem = 507625472 (484MB) mainbus0 at root: Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 270MHz) cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi (rev 1.3) @ 270 MHz cpu0: physical 16K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 256K external (64 b/l) psycho0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfffc4000: SUNW,sabre, impl 0, version 0, ign 7c0 psycho0: bus range 0-3, PCI bus 0 psycho0: dvma map c0000000-dfffffff pci0 at psycho0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Sun Simba PCI-PCI" rev 0x13 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ebus0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Sun PCIO EBus2" rev 0x01 auxio0 at ebus0 addr 726000-726003, 728000-728003, 72a000-72a003, 72c000-72c003, 72f000-72f003 power0 at ebus0 addr 724000-724003 ivec 0x25 "SUNW,pll" at ebus0 addr 504000-504002 not configured sab0 at ebus0 addr 400000-40007f ivec 0x2b: rev 3.2 sabtty0 at sab0 port 0 sabtty1 at sab0 port 1 comkbd0 at ebus0 addr 3083f8-3083ff ivec 0x29: layout 34 wskbd0 at comkbd0: console keyboard com0 at ebus0 addr 3062f8-3062ff ivec 0x2a: mouse: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo lpt0 at ebus0 addr 3043bc-3043cb, 30015c-30015d, 700000-70000f ivec 0x22: polled clock1 at ebus0 addr 0-1fff: mk48t59 "flashprom" at ebus0 addr 0-fffff not configured audioce0 at ebus0 addr 200000-2000ff, 702000-70200f, 704000-70400f, 722000-722003 ivec 0x23 ivec 0x24: nvaddrs 0 audio0 at audioce0 hme0 at pci1 dev 1 function 1 "Sun HME" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7e1, address 08:00:20:a2:f6:94 nsphy0 at hme0 phy 1: DP83840 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 vgafb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "ATI Mach64" rev 0x5c wsdisplay0 at vgafb0 mux 1: console (std, sun emulation), using wskbd0 pciide0 at pci1 dev 3 function 0 "CMD Technology PCI0646" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide0: using ivec 0x7e0 for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC AC28400R> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8063MB, 16514064 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4 wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1: <ELITE PRO CF CARD 16GB> wd1: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 15280MB, 31293440 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4 ppb1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Sun Simba PCI-PCI" rev 0x13 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "DEC 21152 PCI-PCI" rev 0x02 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 "Sun PCIO EBus2" rev 0x01 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured hme1 at pci3 dev 0 function 1 "Sun HME" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7d1, address 08:00:20:a3:e8:52 nsphy1 at hme1 phy 1: DP83840 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 isp0 at pci3 dev 4 function 0 "QLogic ISP1020" rev 0x05: ivec 0x7d0 isp0: invalid NVRAM header scsibus0 at isp0: 16 targets, initiator 7 softraid0 at root bootpath: /p...@1f,0/p...@1,1/i...@3,0/d...@0,0 root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b # mount /dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local) /dev/wd1a on /mnt type ffs (local) /dev/wd1d on /mnt2 type ffs (local) # df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 14444316 2170316 11551788 16% / /dev/wd1a 8251788 2180244 5658956 28% /mnt /dev/wd1d 20471612 2234052 17213980 11% /mnt2