On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:19:46PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In <20010112105712.A22810@antioche.lip6.fr>
> bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr wrote:
> 
> > ports have the mini din8. Can I use a Sun adaper mini din8 -> db25, or do I
> > need to find a Mac one ?
> 
> It could be used, but is not compatible.
> 
> I tried to use a Sun cable about 2.5 years ago.
> I could get OF prompt and kernel messages,
> but it hanged at /bin/sh prompt. After replacing
> with the Mac one, everything worked fine.
> 
> Maybe SD/RD/GND use the same pin layout but
> CD/DR etc. are not. setting CLOCAL might help?
> (though there are many changes on macppc/dev/zs.c)

maybe, but for serial console I've always used cables without flow
control (i.e. only ground,Tx,Rx) and I've never had problem with others
arch. 

Anyway it seems that I'm out of luck with this machine for now: it's a
601 (could be added to the hardware page as unsupported).

For fun, I tried to netboot it (1.0.5 OF), it dies when loading ofwboot.xcf:
0 > boot enet file: 132.227.63.44,ofwboot.xcfloading XCOFF
tsize=BF00 dsize=14E4 bsize=1608 entry=600000 
SECTIONS:
.text    00600000 00600000 0000BF00 000000E0
.data    0060C000 0060C000 000014E4 0000BFE0
.bss     0060D4E8 0060D4E8 00001608 00000000
loading .text, done..
loading .dataCLAIM failed
 ok
0 > 

A second netboot attemps fails:
0 > boot enet file: 132.227.63.44,
TFTP timeout
TFTP timeout
[...]

The machine has to be reset.

If someone works on 601 support, I'd be happy to test :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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