I have here 4 450MHz CPUs (501-5539) and a U60 which I believed I have patched to the latest OBP (?). It current has two 360MHz CPUs. I tried two of the 450s and the machine would then not boot. Anything I could be doing wrong? I may take the cpus to work to have them tested in a E450 just in case.
I suspect, but have not investigated, that you need not only the latest OBP (3.17 or greater), but also the proper jumpers set on the U60 MB. The 360 MHz CPUs operate at a different clock speed from the 450 MHz CPUs you want to use... Check out this Sun document: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/806-1055-11.pdf It is the 450 MHz UltraSPARC upgrade manual, and section 3.3 describes the jumper you need to move/change, based on the installed CPUs. HTH, Ken >From: Mauricio Tavares <raub <at> ufl.edu> >Date: 2007/05/07 Mon AM 07:45:08 CDT >To: suns-at-home <at> net-kitchen.com >Subject: [Suns-at-Home] 450MHz CPUs and U60 > I have here 4 450MHz CPUs (501-5539) and a U60 which I believed I have >patched to the latest OBP (?). It current has two 360MHz CPUs. I tried >two of the 450s and the machine would then not boot. Anything I could be >doing wrong? I may take the cpus to work to have them tested in a E450 >just in case. >_______________________________________________ >Suns-at-Home mailing list >Suns-at-Home <at> net-kitchen.com >http://www.net-kitchen.com/mailman/listinfo/suns-at-home(Continue reading)
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:45:08AM -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I have here 4 450MHz CPUs (501-5539) and a U60 which I believed I > have patched to the latest OBP (?). It current has two 360MHz CPUs. I > tried two of the 450s and the machine would then not boot. Anything I could > be doing wrong? I may take the cpus to work to have them tested in a E450 > just in case. According to this document: http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/806/806-1055/pdf/806-1055-12.pdf you need to change the setting of jumper J3001 when switching from 300 or 360 MHz modules to 450 MHz modules. I recently upgraded my U60 from 2x300 to 2x450 and noticed a nice speed increase. Cory.
After many moons procrastinatting, I soldered a 40 pin connector on
the sunpci card and then connected an IDE HD to it. When it boots up, it
recognizes the HD,
http://kudria.com/projects/computer/sun/images/SunPCI2pro_01.jpg
http://kudria.com/projects/computer/sun/images/SunPCI2pro_02.jpg
but still will try to boot from an image or will ask for one if it is
not there (or I deleted its Sunpci.ini file). How to persuade the card
to see the HD as the C: drive? Is that a hardware limitation or an
issue with the bios.bin or cmos.bin files (off /opt/SUNWspci/bios) it
supposedly load at boot?
I might slap in XP in it, the usual way, and see if that OS will see the
drive and format it.
>If I unplug the sun keyboard lead and plug it back in, the Sun drops to the boot prompt, however if I type 'go' then the sun resumes and the keyboard works. I believe this is normal behavior. It's certainly happened to me in remote lab installs where other people in the lab kept unplugging keyboards. Have you tried "boot -r" to rebuild /dev with the PS/2 keyboard and USB adapter plugged in? I had to do this to get a USB external hard disk and a Lacie USB floppy drive working. I've also got one of the Belkin adapters and would be interested to hear how you get on. I'm looking for an inexpensive way to share keyboard and mouse between my Ultra 5 and E4500. Best regards Ben Ben Lewis Alcatel-Lucent Professional Services OSS/BSS RSC Benelux 54 Alfons Gosset Laan, 1702 Brussels, Belgium +32 2 467 8737 blewis3 <at> alcatel-lucent.com
Cory Bajus wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:45:08AM -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: >> I have here 4 450MHz CPUs (501-5539) and a U60 which I believed I >> have patched to the latest OBP (?). It current has two 360MHz CPUs. I >> tried two of the 450s and the machine would then not boot. Anything I could >> be doing wrong? I may take the cpus to work to have them tested in a E450 >> just in case. > > According to this document: > > http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/806/806-1055/pdf/806-1055-12.pdf > > you need to change the setting of jumper J3001 when switching from 300 > or 360 MHz modules to 450 MHz modules. > > I recently upgraded my U60 from 2x300 to 2x450 and noticed a nice speed > increase. > > Cory. > You (and Ken!) were right! I changed the jumper and when I booted it, it reported the two 450MHz CPUs: raub <at> nassau-15>prtconf -vp | grep banner-name banner-name: 'Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz)' banner-name: 'Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI' raub <at> nassau-16> Thanks for all the help!(Continue reading)
silvercreekvalley wrote: > Any ideas. I'm using an older version of Solaris > incidently - version 2.5. http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U5/U5.html The Ultra 5, according to this page, requires Solaris 2.5.1 hw11/97 as a minimum - maybe this is part of the problem since you're using Solaris 2.5? (Note that the same page says that if using Solaris 2.6, hw3/98 is required - and I can tell you now, if using the 400/440MHz CPU, a further supplement is required to just install the OS for 2.5.1/2.6). The unplugging and replugging of the keyboard (and getting the OBP "go" prompt) is indeed normal. FYI - so is booting most terminals attached to the console A port when the Sun system is outputting the console to port A - a Windows PC, SPARC 5 and a Wyse60 terminal have done this to me. (There is an OBP setting to stop it doing this but I forget which setting has to be changed). Regards, Phil.
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Andre van Eyssen wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>
>
>> but still will try to boot from an image or will ask for one if it
is not there (or I deleted its Sunpci.ini file). How to persuade the
card to see the HD as the C: drive? Is that a hardware limitation or an
issue with the bios.bin or cmos.bin files (off /opt/SUNWspci/bios) it
supposedly load at boot?
>
> Tried hitting del for setup? <shrug>
>
> Otherwise you could deploy something like grub onto the virtual drive
and use that to boot from the spindle.
>
Well, here is the problem AFAIK:
raub <at> nassau-18>cat pc/SunPC.ini
[Drives]
A drive=/dev/rdiskette
C drive=/export/home/raub/pc/DOS.diskimage
CD=/vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
[Disk32]
Enabled=Yes
[Display]
VesaModes=Disabled
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On Mon, 7 May 2007, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I have here 4 450MHz CPUs (501-5539) and a U60 which I believed I > have patched to the latest OBP (?). It current has two 360MHz CPUs. I tried > two of the 450s and the machine would then not boot. Anything I could be > doing wrong? I may take the cpus to work to have them tested in a E450 just > in case. Check the J3001 setting, but otherwise x1195's should work without a problem as it's a standard config for U60-based systems such as the T1125 and E420R. Craig. -- -- Post by Craig Dewick (tm). Web <at> "http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick". Email 2 "cdewick <at> lios.apana.org.au". SunShack <at> "http://www.sunshack.org" Galleries <at> "http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2". Also lots of tech data, etc. Sun Microsystems webring at "http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sunmicrosystemsu".
If there's enough interest, i might set up a dedicated site containing the system and some applications sw -- maybe later this summer. Cheers. kK http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~kanneman Scott Stevens wrote: >Well, I took up a list member's offer and made the trip to bring home a Sun 386i machine. Now I need to locate system software to run on it. I have searched 'round the net and the 386i sites almost all appear to have gone offline. ftp://sun386i.mon.org/pub/sun386i looks like the site that I wish was still mirrored somewhere. My understanding is that this 386i will run SunOS 4.0.1 or 4.0.2. It looks, after a trawl all about on the net, as though nobody has ever ported any other OS to this orphaned odd-bird box. I often use NetBSD to 'test out' classic UNIX hardware, that won't be possible on the 386i. > >Does anybody have a suggestion how I can find the required OS for this box? I don't have anything but the box, so will run it headless, like I run little lunchbox Sparcs. Any pointers to where I can find the pinout to adapt a serial console, or is the pinout 'standard' on the back? There seems to be little info at all online about this thing. (I understand some of the politics of it, but does everybody universally hate these things?) > >I am a somewhat collector of vintage UNIX hardware, particularly the odd stuff that used Intel processors. I also have an Altos 586 (8086 machine that runs an ancient System 3 derived version of Microsoft Xenix). > >I also have bunches and bunches of old Sparc boxes and am about to start posting giveaways here to thin out the herd. >_______________________________________________ >Suns-at-Home mailing list >Suns-at-Home <at> net-kitchen.com >http://www.net-kitchen.com/mailman/listinfo/suns-at-home(Continue reading)
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