Hi there :) I am new to sparcs maybe someone can 
help me out.TIA..

I have a sparc IPC w/ 36mb of ram. rom rev 2.6 
serial #1264830
sbus slot 2 has a cgthree on it.

My main problem is this: i cant boot from the 
internal 1 gig scsi after a successful install 
of openbsd (i know its not netbsd..but if you 
can help me out..i will gladly try netbsd in the 
IPX i have) via FTP from my freebsd box.  I can 
successfully mount sd0 to check if the files are 
actually there with the install floppy..and they 
are. Which makes me think the drive is ok. 
Dmesg from the boot floppy brings this up: 
sd0 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <HP C2247-300, 
0BE4> scsi2 0/direct fixed. 
sd0: 1003mb, 2051cyl,13 head, 77 sec 512 bytes 
persec, 2054864 sec total.

'probe-scsi' at the openboot version 2 prom does 
this:
target 5
unit 0 disk HP C2247-300 0BE4

so even the openboot prom sees it :)

however..when i try 'boot disk' or 'boot 
disk0/1/2/3' or boot /sbus/esp/sd@3,0 or 0,0 or 
a few other wild stabs in the dark i get:

boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@3,0 	 file 
and args: bsd
scsi device 3,0 is not responding 
cant open boot device.

This is obviously reducing my enjoyment of the 
little lunchbox :). 'test diskx' yields a return 
code of -1.

I have no experience of scsi before..but the 
drive is connected directly to the mobo in the 
sparc. The ID on the hdd can be changed by 
jumpers as far as i can see..altering it from 
0/1/2 just seems to move the buggering target 
around on 'probe-scsi' and dmesg.

Please someone put me out of my misery on this 
and i'll buy /send you a pint ;)

Pete.