Re: boot

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:44:38AM +0100, Ingo T. Storm wrote:
> > I have an Ultra-10, an Ultra-5 and an Ultra-1 -- other than that
> > information I really don't know diddly-squat about the nuances/internals
> > of Sparc hardware.  Could you shed any light on this?
> 
> U10 and U5: use text install, not gui. Append "ide=nodma" at install and in
> silo.conf. Should be fine else. No idea about XFree86, though: I simply
> don't use it. One user with an ide disk has reported stability issues ("hda
> lost interrupt" -> uptimes in range of only 2-3 days for a mail relay for 30
> users). Others say everything's fine with ide. With scsi (I run that here):
> no problems whatsover.

Just one more data point: I have Aurora 1.0 running on an U5/400 and
up until now, I had no problems. Installation was smooth, though
strange with regard to colours (GUI installer doesn't like the GFX8P I
have - see list archives of the Aurora devel list for more). I'm using
it as a workstation (though not 24x7, so I can't comment on stability
much). X works fine, however, with said GFX8P card, you have to use the
XFree86-3.3.6 servers. I've provided RPMs for those, as the original RPMs
needed patches (again, this has been discussed on aurora-sparc-devel).
Further, I'm using it to run my SCSI scanner with a Symbios 810 card.
There were several issues with SANE (mostly 32bit vs. 64bit issues), but
those got resolved with help of the SANE developers. Again, new(er) RPMs
are available (for sane 1.0.11) from me. I've even added a USB card,
but never got round to actually test whether it works... :-}

Other than that, I'm pretty happy with that machine. It keeps up well
when compared to my U10/440 which is running Solaris 8.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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