[rescue] Sun 3 with SCSI2SD

Andrew Liles blah at spilk.org
Sun Mar 17 23:03:24 CDT 2019


I have some Sun 3/80's that boot fine off SCSI2SD v5.1. 3/80 is kind of a
different beast though, so not sure if my config.xml will help. I don't
recall
doing anything particularly special to make it work.

-a.

> On Mar 17, 2019, at 7:11 PM, Earl Baugh <earl at baugh.org> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> Wondering if anyone has used a SCSI2SD card with a Sun 3 class machine. I
know
> Walter B has had success with the Sun 2( thatbs next on my list after I
get
> the Sun 3/110 working with one. )
>
> I have some Version 5 of the card. (I also have a version 3 card that I
tried
> long ago, with little success). The new current firmware is much more
> understandable in terms of setting it up.
> However with a known good image ( obtained from Walter B) I canbt get it
to
> go past the message bWaiting for disk to spin up...b
> followed by bPlease start it, if necessary , b OR b press a key to
> quit.b
>
> I know the card doesnbt need to spin up p so question is, what is the
> boot prom waiting for? I expect itbs just something off in my config but
so
> far everything Ibve tried yields the same result.
>
> Anybody have a config.xml that works that they could share? ( and which
> firmware version  it works with? )
>
> Thanks
>
> Earl
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