Actually, you were: Back in 2008 you were using this exact same machine to add e10k support ;)
Fyi: Release 4.7's bsd.rd booted up without issue. Thanks Mark, /ms On Dec 31, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: michael spenard <[email protected]> >> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:11:29 -0500 >> >> Hi All, >> I'm trying to do a diskless install (i.e. "boot net bsd.rd") on a Sun e10k. >> OpenBSD 4.8. And isp0 seems to be stuck. Any thoughts on how to get past >> this? > > Heh, you're the first one to connect a SCSI3 disk to an SBus isp(4) it > seems: > >> sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST318305LSUN18G, 0340> SCSI3 0/direct >> fixed > > Since it is a "modern" disk we send it a a "big" SCSI command to > figure out how big the disk is. A SCSI3 disk should be able to handle > these commands just fine, but unfortunately the firmware we use on > these SBus isp(4) cards doesn't implement the firmware commands to > send these commands to the disk. I was able to reproduce the problem > on an ss20 and committed a fix for the problem. > > Snapshots with the fix should appear soon, perhaps even in a couple > hours. Until then, you could remove that SCSI3 disk (sd1) and use the > SCSI2 one (sd0). > > Cheers, > > Mark
