Subject: Re: Drive formatting...
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Allan 'Norm' Crain <allanc@idea-inc.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/07/1997 18:53:12
Apon closer inspection, it would appear that my SCSI isn't being detected at
all... But I'm not sure. I don't see any mention of SCSI drives in the
messages, but I'm not entirely well versed with Netbsd device names..
# dmesg
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NetBSD 1.2 (GENERIC_SCSI3) #6: Fri Sep 27 22:01:55 MET DST 1996
    pk@kwik:/usr/src1/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC_SCSI3
real mem = 33529856
avail mem = 30089216
using 204 buffers containing 1671168 bytes of memory
bootpath: /obio0/ie0
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: SUN-4/200 series (MB86910 or WTL1164/5 FPU)
cpu0: 131072 byte write-back, 16 bytes/line, sw flush cache enabled
obio0 at mainbus0
oclock0 at obio0 addr 0xf3000000 delay constant 6
eeprom0 at obio0 addr 0xf2000000
memreg0 at obio0 addr 0xf4000000
zs0 at obio0 addr 0xf1000000 pri 12, softpri 6
zs0a: console i/o
zs1 at obio0 addr 0xf0000000 pri 12, softpri 6
bwtwo0 at obio0 addr 0xfd000000: bwtwo, 1600 x 1280
bwtwo0: attached to /dev/fb
ie0 at obio0 addr 0xf6000000 pri 6 address 08:00:20:00:2e:b8, type onboard
vmel0 at mainbus0
vmes0 at mainbus0
xyc0 at vmes0 addr 0xffffee40 vec 0x48 pri 3: Xylogics 450/451
xy0 at xyc0 drive 0: off-line
xy1 at xyc0 drive 1: off-line
nfs_boot: using network interface 'ie0'
ie0: TDR detected a short 0 clocks away
nfs_boot: client_addr=0xcdd8dc0a
nfs_boot: server_addr=0xcdd8dc09
nfs_boot: hostname=sparcy
root on 205.216.220.1:/net/sparcy
swap on 205.216.220.1:/net/sparcy/swap
#

(Don't worry. I'm not mistaking the SMD controller in there for a SCSI
controller. They are seperate boards. :)
I'm not entirely sure that the SCSI controller is connected to the drive I
have in there, though. After an hour or so of digging around inside, I managed
to locate a ribbon cable which seems to connect directly to the back of the
backplane. I'm confused as to how this could (if it does at all) connect to
the SCSI card... Perhaps NetBSD doesn't know how to cope with the card that I
have? I'd hate to learn that I need to somehow find myself a copy of SunOS
after I've spent all this time working on getting NetBSD working. :) 
____________________________________________________________________________
Allan "Norm" Crain |  allanc@idea-inc.com  | http://web.idea-inc.com/~allanc
"We'll have fun fun fun 'till my daddy takes the T1 away" --nby@idea-inc.com