Re: sili(4) on Sparc64 (Blade 100)

Mark Kettenis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:42:59 -0500
> From: "E. L. Evans V" <[email protected]>
> 
> On 10/28/10 5:42 PM, Eric Huiban wrote:
> > Le 20/10/10 04:28, Nick Holland a icrit :
> >> On 07/04/10 13:56, E. L. Evans V wrote:
> >>
> >> sorry, took me a while to get around to experimenting with this...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I've left most of the prior quoted intact down below, may be a bit wordy
> fr list, but for continuity's sake I suppose.
> 
> I have tried several cards based on chipset recco's:
> 
> A VIA6421 (is PATA and SATA)
> A SILI3512 (is SATA)
> 
> Both controllers appear to be seen at boot, neither will format a
> drive.  OpenBSD sees a drive, and allows partitioning, but
> formatting fails, with messages that suggest the sometimes common
> "too big a drive" problem.

Reverse engineering things from what you think the problem is, doesn't
work.  If you want people to help you, send the exact commands and
error messages.  There should be no reason to "format" a drive for use
with OpenBSD, but I guess you mean something different with that word
than most of us.
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