Re[2]: PCI USB Cards
Hi, My U10 runs woody, 2.4.19 kernel. I have these PCI cards installed nics, Recently someone reported getting a 3com card (3c905?) working. I have 2 3c905b-tx installed, had up to 3, used revs A,B,C scsi cards, Yep. Got an Adaptec card (2940 IIRC) working very well. Diamond Fireport 40 Dual (sym53c876), (sg module), can boot from it, but when rebooting, I have to Stop+A and boot scsi. tv tuners, etc. Never tried but IIRC the bt drivers appear in the SPARC kernel so it should work. miro pctv (bt848), the kernel used doesn't have the necessary modules. I had once a bttv module loaded, using a debian kernel (can't remember which one, surely a 2.2.x when using potato). I only tried xawtv, nothing went, didn't search more than a screwdriver. Have got HCF modems and ATA controllers to recognise but haven't tested them properly. If the driver source is out there, what's to stop it from running? Well: 1. Some kernel drivers haven't yet been ported to all architectures (last I looked the only 3rd party SCSI driver in the SPARC kernel was aic7xxx) and some have been but could do with testing. 2. User space drivers (IE X drivers) may not have been ported. 3. Unless you have the right kind of card and / or hack the card's firmware you will have problems getting it to interact with OpenBoot. IE booting from extra SCSI cards may well be out of the question and things that require initialisation (graphics cards) may be problematic. I'd be interested in hearing of any success / failures you ahve. Good luck, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seasons change, things come to pass
Ultra10 / woody / 120 GB HD / fdisk and geometry
Hi, I'm trying to put a 120GB ATA drive im my ultra 10 running stable with a 2.4.19 kernel A probe-ide shows correctly the drive. The kernel seems to be able to read the geometry as shown below : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/model Maxtor 6Y120L0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/geometry physical 238216/16/63 logical 238216/16/63 But fdisk doesn't want to let me specify a custom geometry (typing ? doesn't do anything) : thething:/home/nath# fdisk -v fdisk v2.11n thething:/home/nath# fdisk /dev/hdc [...] Command (m for help): s Building a new sun disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. [...] Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): ? Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): ? Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): 0 Heads (1-1024, default 16): 16 Sectors/track (1-1024, default 63): 63 Cylinders (1-65535, default 41606): 238216 Value out of range. Cylinders (1-65535, default 41606): I understand that 238216 65535 and that fdisk can't really accept 238216 as an answer :) but how could I partitionate my hard drive ? If I use the values given by fdisk, I end with a 20GB-like partition scheme, while I'd like to be able to fill up all those GBs :) Thanks in advance, Nathanaël Camelot -- mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SunFire V880
Hi all, We received at work a 6 CPU SunFire V880, and Solaris installation isn't planned before mid-August. Would it be interesting for anyone I try a debian install ? -- mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U5/10 and IDE drives larger than 20GB
Hi, Did anyone try and succed to put a 20GB IDE hard drive in an Ultra 5/10 running woody ? The actual (or somehow former) 20GB said goodbye, and 20 gigs drives are now quite overpriced, so if I can use a bigger-for-less one... Thanks in advance, sorry if it's a bit off topic. -- Nathanael Camelot mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
