[rescue] Sun Ultra 2 series PROMs

[Jonathan Katz]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Jim Hickstein <jxh at jxh.com> wrote:
> Every DIP I've ever seen had Vcc and GND on those respective corners. Hallowed by tradition, if nothing else.

That makes me feel better, since this is uncharted territory for me.

Even with things soldered in place, I'm getting TOD errors. However,
mkp and friends work. Here's what I did (my errors truncated out.)

4-slot Sun Enterprise 3000, No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.2.26, 3072 MB memory installed, Serial #16777215.
Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved
Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: ffffffff.

[ system tries to boot; failed on loading tod module ]

{6} ok banner

4-slot Sun Enterprise 3000, No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.2.26, 3072 MB memory installed, Serial #16777215.
Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved
Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: ffffffff.

The IDPROM contents are invalid

booo, hiss!

I find the old NVRAM FAQ (yes, this is hosted in .ru...)
http://lib.ru/TXT/faqsunnvram.txt

{6} ok set-defaults
Setting NVRAM parameters to default values.
{6} ok setenv diag-switch? false
diag-switch? =        false
{6} ok 8 0 20 C0 ED B4 BE c0ffee mkpl
^D^R [ entered by me ]
{6} ok 0 f 0 do i idprom@ xor loop f mkp
[ returns to prompt by itself. I assume I have to do this to set the
chksum manually. ]

{6} ok reset-all


Resetting...
Software Power ON
3,0>ERROR: TEST=NVRAM Devices,SUBTEST=M48T59 (TOD) Init ID=8.1
3,0>Component under test: Board 16 Firehose Bus
3,0>TODC battery is low bit set
3,0>ERROR: TEST=NVRAM Devices,SUBTEST=M48T59 (TOD) Init ID=8.1
3,0>Component under test: Board 1 Firehose Bus
3,0>TODC battery is low bit set
Clock board TOD does not match TOD on any IO board.
screen not found.
Can't open input device.
Keyboard not present.  Using ttya for input and output.
Clock board TOD does not match TOD on any IO board.

4-slot Sun Enterprise 3000, No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.2.26, 3072 MB memory installed, Serial #12648430.
Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved
Ethernet address 0:20:c0:ed:b4:be, Host ID: 80c0ffee.

Boot device: disk  File and args:
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_118558-39 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
WARNING: status 'fail' for '/central at 1f,0/fhc at 0,f8800000/eeprom at 0,908000'
WARNING: status 'fail' for '/fhc at 2,f8800000/eeprom at 0,300000' on board 1
(Can't load tod module) Program terminated

{6} ok

Considering NOS chips are like $10 shipped from Hong Kong, I may just
go that route for both this and the Ultra 2.