Re: U60, DVD player, and hard drive
Mauricio Tavares <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.solaris.at-home |
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| Message-ID | <1231499166.20359.8.camel@monaco> |
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:39 +1100, Neil Griffin wrote:
> Hmm,
> I'll have a play with my U60 over the next day or so an see
> if I can replicate your build. Which release Sol10 is it... u6 (the
> latest)? What was the release version of Sol10 on the disks
> (/etc/release)?
>
> The fact that the Sol10 boots when the disks are removed suggests
> there is nothing wrong with the DVD drive and DVD itself... I'll
> ignore the eject problem for the moment ;-).
>
> I am not surprised the 'test' function didn't show up anything. I also
> had a look at a full diag run I did on mine a while back it primarily
> tests the motherboard and not peripherals other than a bus probe.
>
Here is an update: out of spite, I removed the dvd player and put in an
external scsi case I have for these dangerous scenes. So, first I tried
to find it using probe-scsi:
{0} ok probe-scsi
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk IBM IC35L036UCDY10-0S23C
Target 1
Unit 0 Disk QUANTUM ATLAS10K3_73_SCA020W
{0} ok
It did not show up. So, let's try probe-scsi-all instead:
{0} ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1
Target 6
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M14011009
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3
Target 1
Unit 0 Disk QUANTUM ATLAS10K3_73_SCA020W
{0} ok
It shows up but then my boot hard drive (the IBM drive) is not seen
there. Weird, if you ask me. In any case, I seem to be able to boot off
the external dvd:
{0} ok boot /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1/disk@6,0:f
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1/disk@6,0:f File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_137137-09 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Configuring devices.
Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
Attempting to configure interface qfe3...
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So, I went on to install Solaris as usual. Everything went fine until
the step it asks where I want to slap Solaris on. For some reason it
claims it has never met the IBM drive:
Select Disks
On this screen you must select the disks for installing Solaris
software.
Start by looking at the Suggested Minimum field; this value is the
approximate space needed to install the software you've selected. For
ZFS,
multiple disks will be configured as mirrors, so the disk you choose,
or the
slice within the disk must exceed the Suggested Minimum value.
NOTE: ** denotes current boot disk
Disk Device Available Space
=============================================================================
[ ]c0t1d0 70144 MB
Maximum Root Size: 0 MB
Suggested Minimum: 6868 MB
Why would it have cheerfully ignored the IBM drive?
> Cheers
>
> Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 14:09 +1100, Neil Griffin wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm,
> > > it is somewhat curious.
> > >
> > >
> > You can say that twice.
> >
> >
> > > At the OBP prompt you can just type 'help' which will show you the
> > > available functions available.... 'test' being one of them.
> > >
> > > {0} ok help
> > > Enter 'help command-name' or 'help category-name' for more help
> > > (Use ONLY the first word of a category description)
> > > Examples: help select -or- help line
> > > Main categories are:
> > > Repeated loops
> > > Defining new commands
> > >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > {0} ok help diag
> > > test <device-specifier> Run selftest method for specified device
> > > Examples:
> > > test floppy - test floppy disk drive
> > > test net - test net
> > > test scsi - test scsi
> > > test-all Execute test for all devices with selftest method
> > >
> > >
> > Here is what I've done: first I removed my sunpci II and 4 port
> > ethernet card off the machine. Right now there are no extra cards in the
> > pci bus just in case they could be interfering with my adventures. Then
> > I ran the test-all thingie:
> >
> > {0} ok test-all
> > Testing /SUNW,ffb@1e,0
> > Testing /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1
> > No targets found
> > Selftest failed. Return code = -1
> > Testing /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3
> > Testing /pci@1f,4000/network@1,1
> > Internal loopback test -- succeeded.
> > Transceiver check -- passed
> > Testing /pci@1f,4000/ebus@1/fdthree@14,3023f0
> > Testing floppy disk system. A formatted disk should be in the drive.
> > Test succeeded.
> > {0} ok
> >
> > The test floppy was a msdos floppy (I think) I found doing nothing here.
> > I guess short of the tape test, which I expected to have failed as I had
> > none connected to it, it passed it all. So, I decided to do the scsi
> > test and even try and see if cdrom is a valid target for a test:
> >
> > {0} ok test scsi
> > {0} ok help test
> > No help available for test
> > {0} ok test cdrom
> > {0} ok
> >
> > I wonder if that meant the cdrom passed its test. Reason I wonder is
> > because no lights blinked in it, as did in the floppy test. In any case,
> > feeling a bit confident, I decided to see if it would boot.
> >
> > {0} ok boot cdrom
> > Resetting ...
> >
> >
> > Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard
> > OpenBoot 3.31, 1536 MB memory installed, Serial #9059181.
> > Ethernet address 8:0:20:8a:3b:6d, Host ID: 808a3b6d.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
> > Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f File and args:
> > Evaluating: boot cdrom
> >
> > Can't open boot device
> >
> > Boot device: disk File and args:
> > /
> > Type 'go' to resume
> > {0} ok
> >
> > Sounds familiar, right? So, I removed the boot disk and tried again:
> >
> > Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard
> > OpenBoot 3.31, 1536 MB memory installed, Serial #9059181.
> > Ethernet address 8:0:20:8a:3b:6d, Host ID: 808a3b6d.
> >
> >
> >
> > Initializing Memory -
> > {0} ok boot cdrom
> > Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f File and args:
> >
> > Can't open boot device
> >
> > {0} ok
> >
> > Then I put the boot disk back and removed my /export disk:
> >
> > Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard
> > OpenBoot 3.31, 1536 MB memory installed, Serial #9059181.
> > Ethernet address 8:0:20:8a:3b:6d, Host ID: 808a3b6d.
> >
> >
> >
> > Boot device: disk File and args:
> >
> > {0} ok boot cdrom
> >
> > Finally, I removed both disks:
> >
> > Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f File and args:
> > SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_137137-09 64-bit
> > Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> > Use is subject to license terms.
> > Configuring devices.
> > Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
> > Attempting to configure interface hme0...
> > Type 'go' to resume
> > {0} ok
> >
> > As expected from my first post, it booted fine (I stopped it).
> >
> >
> > > If you try 'test cdrom' this may test functionality of the DVD...
> > > although not all devices can be tested using this method... and I am
> > > not sure if 'cdrom' is one of them.
> > >
> > > I have attached a useful OBP information page but you can also grab
> > > hold of the full OBP documents from
> > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/216.1?l=en&q=OpenBoot+3.x (Note not
> > > all functions are available on all versions of OBP).
> > >
> > > Also I checked that your DVD is running the latest firmware
> > > revision... 1009, so there are no updates for this. (You can see the
> > > firmware revision as the last four digits of the drive
> > > identification... SD-M14011009. (I have a U80 with this same drive as
> > > well).
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > > So unless the DVD is somehow defective, and the ejection problem kinda
> > > suggests something is amiss, I can only think it might also be a
> > > system firmware issue. The latest/last version of OBP 3.11. Type
> > >
> >
> > At this point in time I myself am out of ideas. I am even considering
> > if the motherboard itself is boink.
> >
> >
> > > '.version' at the OBP prompt. You can upgrade the firmware if it less
> > > than the latest although there are always risks involved in doing this
> > > although I have done this many times on Sun hardware and not had any
> > > problems and of course it doesn't guarantee that this will fix the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > >
> > Mine is reporting as 3.31...?
> >
> > {0} ok .version
> > Release 3.31 Version 0 created 2001/07/25 20:31
> > OBP 3.31.0 2001/07/25 20:31
> > POST 2.0.3 2000/07/31 15:28
> > {0} ok
> >
> >
> > > But I guess it gets back to the point that you did install Sol10 on
> > > the U60 with an earlier release it just seems to be a problem with the
> > > latest release. Perhaps the latest version of Sol10 (u6) has tweaked
> > > something which is causing this problem.
> > >
> > >
> > And, as I mentioned above, if I remove the hard drives it boots fine.
> >
> >
>