Re: Ultra 10 - no output to monitor

On 2007-12-07, Flatulous Maximus <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5 Dec 2007 04:06:31 GMT, "DoN. Nichols" <dnichols@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 2007-12-05, Flatulous Maximus <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ ... ]

Hmm ... also -- are there any PCI cards in the system? I would
pull them, and the Creator-3D framebuffer, and perhaps half of the DIMMs
if you have all four DIMMs. If it does not pass the RAM test then, try
exchanging the two which you still have in with the two which you
pulled. I have seen failed DIMMs, or failed cards lock up the bus on
various systems.

[ ... ]

Okay DoN, your advice to pull any PCI cards did the trick. I pulled
the SymBios 22801 SCSI card.

Great! Always reduce the system to the minimum for diagnostics,
and add one thing at a time to see what makes it stop working.

Also, I set the screen resolution to
1152x900x66 in the OBP. It starts up normally now with the Sun 17"
monitor and keyboard attached. I booted the Solaris 8 CD and got all
the way to the # prompt. The only thing it complained about was
having no Ethernet connection and no hard drive. So, this CPU I
bought on eBay appears to be perfectly fine. The SCSI card was
apparently the source of the Data Access Error on start up.

Or -- perhaps the seating of the card was not quite right. You
might try re-installing it just to be sure.

So, my next question is, how do I get the SCSI card to work in this
Ultra 10 without conflict so I can make use of the Seagate 18.2 GB
SCSI drive and install the OS?

Well ... that *is* one of the cards supplied by Sun. They call
it either the 375-0005 (without F-code) or 375-0013 (with F-code). Look
for the sun barcode label on it to see which you have. In any case, it
should work and not halt the system if it is properly seated. Of
course, a bad card could halt the system even with it properly seated.

Note that you also want to check that the riser card which
provides the PCI slots is properly seated in the system board.

I would prefer to use the SCSI drive
over an IDE drive and I have an external Sun SCSI tape drive I would
like to use with it also. I will Google the SCSI issue, but any
suggestions would be appreciated.

I *think* that the Ultra-5/10 won't boot from that card in an
unless you have the F-code version of the card. But I'm not sure. I've
never tried to boot an Ultra-10 or and Ultra 5 from a SCSI card. When
I'm using one of those, I'm after the inexpensive disk drives. You'll
probably have to boot from an internal IDE drive, and then access the
SCSI drive once the system is booted.

Later systems, such as the Ultra-60 have the drivers in the OBP,
but not the Ultra-5/10.

Note that the FEH shows all four positions in both DIP switches
set to off. The sections control termination on the following:

1) Internal 50-pin connector.

2) Internal 68-pin connector.

3) Enable upper address bits on 68-pin SCSI bus

4) External 68-pin connector.

Also -- the jumper block is not present on the INTA/INTB jumper
near the PCI bus connector.

There are also two fuses on the card -- little rectangular
objects labeled "F1" and "F2" -- which protect the SCSI termination
power feeds.

The four-pin connectors near the switch blocks are for remote
activity LEDs.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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