On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Jarkko Hermanni Teppo wrote:

> Hello all!
> I recently acquired a 4/330 in a 4/360 case with an 
> extra scsi controller and an ipi-2 controller.
> The 330 cpu board has onboard scsi and 4 serial ports
> (labeled tty A - D. The A-port is DB25 female, the rest
> are 9-pin). No framebuffer or keyboard. Now here\'s where
> I need some help. I attached a PC running Reflection to the 
> DB25 thinking that without a framebuffer it would automatically
> use the rs232 as a console. No go, nada, zip. Even sending out
> breaks wouldn\'t work. So at this point I flip the diag switch on
> and voila! I get text.
> 
> So, how can I interrupt the diags (they take forever) and what\'s wrong ?

	Does break work?

> The diagnostics usually fail at the first try with 
> (sorry, no notes) eeprom blablaa wrote x expected y looping.
> Power cycling seems to help.
> 
	Check out the sun hardware FAQ linked to from the sparc port
	homepage on www.netbsd.org - it should have information on
	the necessary command to tell the PROM to use a serial console.
	It will be 'q <something>' (its been a long time since I played
	with a 4/330 :)

		David/absolute