[rescue] Sun 3 with SCSI2SD

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

Just a quick question is the SCSI2SD 68 pin and not correctly responding to 50
pin request?

I assume a probe-scsi reports something sensible?

Peter

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> On 18 Mar 2019, at 13:25, Mike Spooner <mikes at aalin.co.uk> wrote:
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> IIRC, the "ready response" that OBP waits for is the response packet to theB
> IDENTIFY ("what's your make and model"?) SCSI command..
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> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 12:22 PM +0000, "adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich
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> " From: Earl Baugh
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> " Howdy,
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> " 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( that's next on my list after I
get
> " the Sun 3/110 working with one. )
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> " I have some Version 5 of the card. (I also have a version 3 card that I
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> " 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 can't get it
to
> " go past the message "Waiting for disk to spin up..."
> " followed by "Please start it, if necessary , - OR - press a key to quit."
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> " I know the card doesn't need to spin up p so question is, what is the
> " boot prom waiting for? I expect it's just something off in my config but
so
> " far everything I've tried yields the same result.
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> not sure how this relates, but hds have a jumper i always set, to spin
> up on first access instead of poweron; my thinking was that the load
> on the ps was never higher than at poweron and this would reduce the
> surge by a meaningful fraction while adding only seconds to cold boot.
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> could there be a 'ready' signal/message the disk returns to the obp?
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