On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:10:03PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Andy Isaacson said:
> 
> >Most standard IDE drives should work.  Depending on the firmware vintage
> >you might need to upgrade to support drives larger than 8 GB -- the
> >original firmware on a system with a 4GB drive probably needs upgrading.
> 
> >You can find the firmware upgrade instructions on http://docs.sun.com.
> 
> I wish they had some kind of a table somewhere. The system says that the
> firmware is 3.29. That's from 2000/12/20, which is well after sun shipped
> the 9 gig drives.
> 
> >It *might* be supported by OpenFirmware; there are cards with that
> >chipset that are supported by the Ultra5/10 firmware.  I don't know
> >offhand if that support is intrinsic to the onboard firmware, or if you
> >would need a specialty 53cXXX card with OF in ROM.
> 
> Here's some good news:
> 
> siop0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c875 (ultra-wide scsi)
> siop0: using on-board RAM
> siop0: interrupting at ivec 10
> scsibus0 at siop0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
> pcons at mainbus0 not configured
> No counter-timer -- using %tick at 270MHz as system clock.
> scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> 
> The external connector is wide scsi, so I just need to find a wide
> drive and external case.

When the drive is connected try a 'probe-scsi-all' from firmware.
If it reports your disk you can evem boot from it.
My 875 is supported by the U5 OFW, but it may depend on the OFW revision, and
the 875 variant.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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