Serial Parallel Controller SBus on 2.4

2007-12-25 9:00:00

I realized this was an RTFM after I had sent it. mea culpa.

The problem:

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I just installed a SPC (Serial Parallel Controller) SBus

card and upgraded my SPARC Classic to Solaris 2.4 3/95.

The Solaris 2.4 Open Issues and Late-Breaking News

Revision A October 1994 p7 says

"It is not necessary to load the unbundled stc driver for

the Sun SPC (Serial Parallel Controller SBus card) on top

of Solaris 2.4 Software. If you do so, several

unrecoverable errors will occur, as detailed in Bug ID

1156748"

Aside from the odd punctuation, this is not very

helpful.

I followed this advice but can find no devices for the

additional SPC ports. In short they don't exist.

I can find no patches for the mentioned bug 1156748.

Any ideas, except going back to 2.3, appreciated.

Andrewb

The real Problem:

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I was too tentative installing the card and did not push the

card far enough into the SBus slot. I identified this with

the prom monitor command "show-sbus", thanks to Scott Kamin.

The fix was to open it up and give the card a shove ;-).

Also showed "Invalid FCode start byte ffed4000" as the

first message after booting. This has gone with the fix

and now I see "SPIF/stc FCode initialization complete"

instead.

Other suggestions:

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1. boot -r

2. touch /reconfigure and init 6

Thanks to:

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gunn@lardav.com (David Gunn)

Paul Ivanov <paul@ksu.ras.ru>

brobbins@mako.Newbridge.COM (Bert Robbins)

celeste@xs.com (Celeste Stokely)

dsomers@roam.agfa.be (Dirk Somers)

paulo@dcc.unicamp.br (Paulo Licio de Geus)

root@ewi.ch (### SUPERVISOR ###)

Scott.Kamin@Central.Sun.COM (Scott Kamin [Sun Denver SE])

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Andrew Baillie email: andrewb@crufad.unsw.edu.au

Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders

University of NSW at St Vincent's Hospital

299 Forbes Street Phone: +61 2 332 1013

Darlinghurst NSW 2010 Fax: +61 2 332 4316

AUSTRALIA

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