OF & adaptec2940UW on 7200

OF & adaptec2940UW on 7200

[Andreas Tobler]

Hi,

I try to get my pm7200 to run with quik. I have an Adaptec 2940UW with
the latest (dec 99) firmware. Two disk attached to this card. No other
discs in this machine.
Now I have some troubles accessing the disks from OF. It can't find it.
here the dev / ls:
FF831AC8: /bandit@F2000000
FF832CB8:   /gc@10
FF8330F0:     /53c94@10000
FF834978:       /sd@0,0
FF8355A8:       /st@0,0
FF836220:     /mace@11000
FF837098:     /escc@13000
FF8371F0:       /ch-a@13020
FF8378A0:       /ch-b@13000
FF837F50:     /awacs@14000
FF838038:     /swim3@15000
FF839140:     /via-cuda@16000
FF839CD0:       /adb@0,0
FF839DC0:         /keyboard@0,0
FF83A510:         /mouse@1,0
FF83A5C0:       /pram@0,0
FF83A670:       /rtc@0,0
FF83AB38:       /power-mgt@0,0
FF83ACE0:     /nvram@1D000
FF83BD90:   /pci106b,1@B
FF83BF68:   /pci10b7,5900@D
FF83C1F8:   /ADPT,2940UW@E		<--- the card.
FF864AB8:   /pci10b7,9055@F
FF83AF90: /platinum@F8000000

Now I think I miss the /sd and /st entries behind the /ADPT entry. I
followed the parts of the yaboot-faq, to find out about disk naming
under OF.
I set the boot-device like this: /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E/@2 for
the second disk.
On boot cmd it only says can't open the above.

Are there some people having a similar card/experience?
Also, creating alias'es under this OF doesn't seem to work. (OF-1.0.5)
0 > nvalias sd /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E  ok
0 > nvstore NVRAMRC not valid

Any hints would be great,

Thanks

Andreas

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Re: OF & adaptec2940UW on 7200

[Ethan Benson]

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On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 06:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> 

[snip]
> 
> Now I think I miss the /sd and /st entries behind the /ADPT entry. I
> followed the parts of the yaboot-faq, to find out about disk naming
> under OF.
> I set the boot-device like this: /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E/@2 for
> the second disk.
> On boot cmd it only says can't open the above.

have you tried /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E/@2:0 <-- notice the :0

you need to specify that partition number to quik, quik uses partition
0 to indicate that it should use the parititon marked bootable in the
partition table.  i think you could specify the root partition here as
well but im not sure of that.

> Are there some people having a similar card/experience?
> Also, creating alias'es under this OF doesn't seem to work. (OF-1.0.5)
> 0 > nvalias sd /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E  ok
> 0 > nvstore NVRAMRC not valid

dev aliases are only tested on newworld hardware (imacs, blue G3, g4s
etc) its not guarenteed to work on older OF.  (and it seems it does
not)  it could just be a different command too hard to say. 

let me know if your kernel (if 2.2.15) boots ;-)  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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Re: OF & adaptec2940UW on 7200

[Andreas Tobler]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> have you tried /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E/@2:0 <-- notice the :0

I think I tried it, but have to retry. What I tried and what didn't work
was the following:
0 > setenv boot-device /bandit/ADPT,2940UW/@2:0  ok
0 > boot  can't OPEN: /bandit/ADPT,2940UW/@2:0

Only to show, bandit and ADPT,2940UW are known:
0 > dev /bandit  ok
0 > dev ADPT,2940UW  ok
0 > pwd /bandit@F2000000/ADPT,2940UW@E ok

Under ADPT I typed 'words' to see what's around, I didn't find a 'open'
as I find under 53c94. Doesn't mean that this is the point but it made
me curious.

>
> you need to specify that partition number to quik, quik uses partition
> 0 to indicate that it should use the parititon marked bootable in the
> partition table.  i think you could specify the root partition here as
> well but im not sure of that.

[snipp]

> let me know if your kernel (if 2.2.15) boots ;-)

Haeh, with bootx it still does, but the other way round I have to learn
a lot. Or buy a G4 ;-)

The last step would be attach an external narrow disk to the 53c94 and
try to boot from there. But this is a step back since the other disks
are UW/U2W.

Thanks,
Andreas

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