Re: Issue with diskless install on e10k

Actually, you were: Back in 2008 you were using this exact same machine to add
e10k support ;)

Fyi: Release 4.7's bsd.rd booted up without issue.

Thanks Mark,
/ms

On Dec 31, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote:

>> From: michael spenard <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:11:29 -0500
>>
>> Hi All,
>> I'm trying to do a diskless install (i.e. "boot net bsd.rd")  on a Sun
e10k.
>> OpenBSD 4.8. And isp0 seems to be stuck. Any thoughts on how to get past
>> this?
>
> Heh, you're the first one to connect a SCSI3 disk to an SBus isp(4) it
> seems:
>
>> sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST318305LSUN18G, 0340> SCSI3
0/direct
>> fixed
>
> Since it is a "modern" disk we send it a a "big" SCSI command to
> figure out how big the disk is.  A SCSI3 disk should be able to handle
> these commands just fine, but unfortunately the firmware we use on
> these SBus isp(4) cards doesn't implement the firmware commands to
> send these commands to the disk.  I was able to reproduce the problem
> on an ss20 and committed a fix for the problem.
>
> Snapshots with the fix should appear soon, perhaps even in a couple
> hours.  Until then, you could remove that SCSI3 disk (sd1) and use the
> SCSI2 one (sd0).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark