Ultra 30 - Trap 3e booting IBM 10k rpm 9GB drive?

[Charlie Smith]

I've got a problem and could use help / suggestions.

When I try to use an IBM 9gb 10k rpm drive as the boot drive
in an Ultra 30, I get a Trap 3e message and then an OK prompt.

This occurs after a power-on boot, after a reset (and boot), after
a reset-all & boot. After the trap message and OK prompt, I can enter
boot again and it will boot and continue just fine.

This occures with any of several identical drives I've got, and it occurs
in either internal slot (ID = 0 or 1) or in an external 711 case.

The drive is an IBM Type: DRVS, COMP IEC-950
Mfg date around 14 Jul 99, firmware 0270.

Here's the exact messages that I get:

Sun Ultra 30 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-II 400MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.27, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #9381808.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:8f:27:b0, Host ID: 808f27b0.

( after memory initialization )
Boot device: disk File and args:
Trap 3e
ok <---
if I enter 'boot' here, it works OK.

Anybody got any suggestions, besides use a Sun spec drive?

Charlie Smith
cha...@elektro.com
Columbus, Ohio

And, yes this U30 works fine with an UltraSparc II 400MHz processor :-)

[Barbie LeVile]

On 21 Apr 2001 04:41:15 GMT
cha...@infinet.com (Charlie Smith) wrote:

>
> I've got a problem and could use help / suggestions.
>
> When I try to use an IBM 9gb 10k rpm drive as the boot drive
> in an Ultra 30, I get a Trap 3e message and then an OK prompt.
>
> This occurs after a power-on boot, after a reset (and boot), after
> a reset-all & boot. After the trap message and OK prompt, I can enter
> boot again and it will boot and continue just fine.
>

hmm, maybe possible that the drive doesn't spins up fast enough, or is jumpered to some wired settings.
I'm using almost exclusively IBM disks, 8-36 gig and they never showed such problem.

>
> And, yes this U30 works fine with an UltraSparc II 400MHz processor :-)
>

hmmm, interesting, how did you do that?

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[Charlie Smith]

In article <3ae10f6b$0$18887$4c5e...@news.erinet.com>,

I received the answe for this in a private email from a Sun person.
There is a known problem with IBM drives (didn't say which ones),
here's the info I received:

There's a bug report that describes a similar problem with
IBM drives. The fix was to put something in NVRAMrc;

u10c(60)# eeprom nvramrc='probe-all install-console banner ? " Probing Ultra
SCSI controller to work around Trap 3e error" type cr ? " /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@
1" " show-children" execute-device-method drop'

u10c(61)# eeprom nvramrc

nvramrc=probe-all install-console banner
" Probing Ultra SCSI controller to work around Trap 3e error" type cr
" /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@1" " show-children" execute-device-method drop

u10c(62) eeprom use-nvramrc\?
use-nvramrc?=false
u10c(63)# eeprom use-nvramrc\?=true

Substitute your own SCSI controller path for /pci@....

Spaces are significant!

Use "Stop-N" on boot when this doesn't work.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Instead of the Solaris eeprom command shown, I ended up having to enter
the three lines of date using nvedit from openboot.

It works like a charm!

- Charlie Smith
cha...@elektro.com
Columbus Ohio, USA
:

[Charlie Smith]

In article <20010421224940....@toppoint.de>,

Barbie LeVile <bar...@toppoint.de> wrote:
>On 21 Apr 2001 04:41:15 GMT
>cha...@infinet.com (Charlie Smith) wrote:
>

>> boot banner on my Ultra 30:

>>
>> Sun Ultra 30 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-II 400MHz), No Keyboard
>> OpenBoot 3.27, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #9381808.
>> Ethernet address 8:0:20:8f:27:b0, Host ID: 808f27b0.
>>

>> And, yes this U30 works fine with an UltraSparc II 400MHz processor :-)
>>
>
>hmmm, interesting, how did you do that?

Easy really. Move the system board jumper J3001 to positions 2-3.
The FE handbook on the Ultra 30 says this is for clock /2 mode
(167/200 MHz). However, the Ultra 60 page says the J3001 jumper
is /2 mode for 200MHz processors and /4 mode for 450MHz processors.
And the Ultra 2 page shows the coresponding jumper meaning /2 mode
for 167/200MHz and /4 mode for 400MHz.

I set auto-boot? false and set diag-switch? true and moved the jumper
and put in the 400MHz UltraSparc II (2 MB) - and then booted via a
serial port console setup. Sure enough, it recognized the 400MHz
processor and the clock mode was /4. Timing tests showed it was running
with the 400MHz module as it should.

[Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer]

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cha...@infinet.com (Charlie Smith) writes:

>I received the answe for this in a private email from a Sun person.
>There is a known problem with IBM drives (didn't say which ones),
>here's the info I received:

Or a problem with the boot environment. Bug number is #4359255

Casper
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[wa...@qwerty.bitey.net]

Charlie Smith <cha...@infinet.com> wrote:

> I set auto-boot? false and set diag-switch? true and moved the jumper
> and put in the 400MHz UltraSparc II (2 MB) - and then booted via a
> serial port console setup. Sure enough, it recognized the 400MHz
> processor and the clock mode was /4. Timing tests showed it was running
> with the 400MHz module as it should.

This is the 501-5445/X1193A module? Man, if I had $2500 burning a hole in
my pocket...

- A.P.

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[Charlie Smith]

In article <sgXH6.3044$4X4.2...@news02.optonline.net>,

Don't have X1193A listed in my FE handbook.

It's a 501-5237 / X1194A the same as goes in an Ultra 2.

When you see them, it's closer to $1000.

Charlie Smith