Re: Ross boot prom chip wanted
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:39, Hamish Greig wrote: I have five ss20 arriving this week sometime, i'll look and let you know. Don't get your hopes up, they are a lot I bought with unknown specs. Hamish Greig None have ross proms. I know you sorted most problems out, just letting you know incase you still wanted the ross prom. Hamish Greig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ross boot prom chip wanted
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Martin Habets wrote: FYI, the firmware is available at http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/sun-bootroms/ Thanks for the pointer. Jurij, nNot sure if I could resurect my cobbled-up programmer and burn one for you. What country are you in? I think there is a guy in Australia doing this kind of stuff on a regular basis. I'm in UK myself. I have found http://mbus.sunhelp.org/ which states that all the HyperSparc processors up to 150MHz should work with prom version 2.25 *or* 2.25r, and I have 2.25 installed. So the problems I'm seeing are not related to the prom versions. And I was finally able to resolve most of them, even though it was a pretty bumpy ride. First of all, any attempt to install using 2.4 kernel from Sarge would result in Watchdog Reset and system dropping back to prom during the second stage boot. The 2.6.8 kernel from Sarge flatly refused to detect the hard drives. Whenever it came to partitioning, it would say No partitionable media found, or the installer would hang on Scanning disks, depending on how lucky one is. Logs were full of messages like esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 3 lun 6 scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device sdg: Unit Not Ready, error = 0x402 scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device sdg : READ CAPACITY failed. sdg : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=04 sdg : sense not available. scsi0 (3:6): rejecting I/O to offline device sdg: asking for cache data failed sdg: assuming drive cache: write through Attached scsi disk sdg at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 6 esp0: target 3 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] esp0: Resetting scsi bus esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 3 lun 7 scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device sdh: Unit Not Ready, error = 0x402 scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (3:7): rejecting I/O to offline device sdh : READ CAPACITY failed. This is strange, because the disks were detected fine with 2.4.27. Finally, I've installed 2.6.10 kernel, which was the last of the kernels I remember working reliably on sparc32. And it did not have such problems! So the machine is up and running now and I just need to try and build latest kernels and see how they perform there. Thanks for all the help, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ross boot prom chip wanted
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:25:58PM +0200, Hartwig Atrops wrote: I have access to an EPROM programmer, I can read out the chip if that's the firmware you need. But you would have to burn it yourself. FYI, the firmware is available at http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/sun-bootroms/ Jurij, nNot sure if I could resurect my cobbled-up programmer and burn one for you. What country are you in? I think there is a guy in Australia doing this kind of stuff on a regular basis. I'm in UK myself. -- Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ross boot prom chip wanted
Hello. On Wednesday 19 October 2005 07:32, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hello, I've recently got a Sparcstation 20 (thanks to Blars) which I plan to use in an attempt to resurrect the sparc32 support. Like to hear that! It has multiple Ross Hypersparc CPUs, however the boot prom chip is Sun-made. I believe that this is the reason why I see various random problems, like watchdog reset interrupt and unstable SCSI subsystem performance. AFAIK, there is special Ross-branded boot prom, which should be used with these CPUs. Never heard about special Ross proms, but this might explain some problems with my Ross 120 dual machine (showing up after inserting the 2nd CPU). To find out if my problems are Linux or hardware based I bought a Ross dual 150 equipped Sparcstation 20 at eBay. It arrived two days ago. I just checked the ROM version: 2.25 What would the special Ross prom report? 2.25 or 2.25r? My new SS20 seems to be one of the late ones - full size CDROM slot. But that is no guarantee that nobody did update the EPPROM with wrong firmware. I have access to an EPROM programmer, I can read out the chip if that's the firmware you need. But you would have to burn it yourself. Regards, Hartwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ross boot prom chip wanted
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Hartwig Atrops wrote: Never heard about special Ross proms, but this might explain some problems with my Ross 120 dual machine (showing up after inserting the 2nd CPU). To find out if my problems are Linux or hardware based I bought a Ross dual 150 equipped Sparcstation 20 at eBay. It arrived two days ago. I just checked the ROM version: 2.25 What would the special Ross prom report? 2.25 or 2.25r? I believe that 2.25 is the last prom released by Sun, at least according to [0]. The only note there is adds 150MHz HyperSparc support, so I have no idea whether it should work in your situation. 2.25r is the Ross-specific version, probably required for higher frequency CPUs. [0] http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SS10/PROM_BootPROM_Sun4m.html Best regards, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ross boot prom chip wanted
Hello, I've recently got a Sparcstation 20 (thanks to Blars) which I plan to use in an attempt to resurrect the sparc32 support. It has multiple Ross Hypersparc CPUs, however the boot prom chip is Sun-made. I believe that this is the reason why I see various random problems, like watchdog reset interrupt and unstable SCSI subsystem performance. AFAIK, there is special Ross-branded boot prom, which should be used with these CPUs. They were available on Ebay some time ago, but I cannot find them any more (or they are bundled with CPUs which I don't need). If someone has such an unneeded chip lying around (preferrably version 2.25r which is the latest), I would gladly pay for shipping it my way. Thanks and best regards, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ross boot prom chip wanted
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:32, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hello, I've recently got a Sparcstation 20 (thanks to Blars) which I plan to use in an attempt to resurrect the sparc32 support. It has multiple Ross Hypersparc CPUs, however the boot prom chip is Sun-made. I believe that this is the reason why I see various random problems, like watchdog reset interrupt and unstable SCSI subsystem performance. AFAIK, there is special Ross-branded boot prom, which should be used with these CPUs. They were available on Ebay some time ago, but I cannot find them any more (or they are bundled with CPUs which I don't need). If someone has such an unneeded chip lying around (preferrably version 2.25r which is the latest), I would gladly pay for shipping it my way. Thanks and best regards, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC I have five ss20 arriving this week sometime, i'll look and let you know. Don't get your hopes up, they are a lot I bought with unknown specs. Hamish Greig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
