Re: Sun Fire V240 ALOM password

Erik Fair <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:12, Eric Schnoebelen <[email protected]> wrote:

> The DVD slot in the V210 and V240 is an ATAPI device.  It uses
> the same connectors as the slide in slots for many laptops and
> the like.  As I recall, it doesn't even require any special
> rails.

The CD or DVD drives in older rack-able Suns (e.g. Netra T1 model 200, Sun Fire V120, Sun Fire V100) can be used in the V240; all of those are IDE/ATAPI. I think Sun "saw the writing on the wall" w.r.t. SCSI optical drives before then.

The relevant section of dmesg.boot from my V240 running NetBSD 6:

aceride0 at pci1 dev 13 function 0: Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE Controller (rev. 0xc4)
aceride0: bus-master DMA support present
aceride0: using PIO transfers above 137GB as workaround for 48bit DMA access bug, expect reduced performance
aceride0: primary channel configured to native-PCI mode
aceride0: using ivec 1f98 for native-PCI interrupt
atabus0 at aceride0 channel 0
aceride0: secondary channel configured to native-PCI mode
atabus1 at aceride0 channel 1

atapibus0 at atabus0: 2 targets
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <DV-28E-R, , 1.8A> cdrom removable
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
cd0(aceride0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA)

	Erik <[email protected]>
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