Subject: Re: Ultra1 1.5 boot
To: Wes Zuber <wes@uia.net>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/11/2001 13:13:20
> Folks,
> 
> I have successfully net booted my Ultra1. The hardware probe does not seem
> to recognize the internal scsi disk however. I don't see where the scsi
> controller is being probed either.
> 
> 1. I have inherited this box and not really sure exactly what it is. It
> says Ultra1 creator on the front but how do I tell what it has for
> hardware? I went to Sun's site and didn't see very much beyond the basic
> hardware listed for an Ultra1. How do I tell what scsi controllers it is
> using? I see that there are a couple of scsi controllers that are not
> supported, so I must have one of these but I would like to make sure.
> 
> 2. If I do have one of the unsupported controllers then what would the
> list recommend?
> 
> 3. Also it has some kind of external scsi box connected to it that holds
> four scsi disks. Looks neat but can NetBSD use this thing?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.

Support for esp/fas is just being shaken out- that's the internal chipset.
To make sure it sees disks, at the 'ok' prompt type

probe-scsi-all


Another card we support is the SBus isp card, but is broken at the
moment for sparc64. I'll be fixing it soon.