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frankOnPPC Apprentice
Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 169 Location: Fulda, Hessen, Germany, Europe, Earth
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:11 am Post subject: tips and hints welcome for Ultra 5 |
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I will try to set up my ultra 5 totaly new (512MB, 333MHz, ati mach64),
running gentoon (kernel 2.6.17, well, gcc 3*, xorg 6.8.2, )
the reason for that is I got a new Harddisk, a Hitachi/IBM Harddisk with 80G.
I like to replace the original Seagate Dsik for two reasons :
o_ 9.1 G is not too much,
o_ its not fast as possible ;-D
So I have some questions :
the Harddisk can be jumpered to use 15 heads instead of 16,
logical seen would be 2,
and it can be jumpered to be "cutted" at 32G due to the issue,
that old IDE-Interfaces/PC-Bioses can not address more then 32G (well, I knowm, OpenBoot is not PCBios, but possible these old IDE - Controller in the ultra 5/10 has this limitiation too).
1. does the Ultra 5 IDE-Interface got a similar limitation with 32G ? (I didn't find a hint in the manuals from sun, but they are too old to realize more then 20G)
2. Do I have to jumper down to 15 Heads ? (the same in the manuals)
3. and how to setup the sun disk label...well, I know, not to short to answer.
Well, also, hints like RTFMF (Read THIS(gimme the url) fucking manual first) are welcome,
but not appriciated ;-D
Cheers and regards,
Frank _________________ always look at yellow site of Linux on the PPC.
Its PPCNUX. |
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frankOnPPC Apprentice
Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 169 Location: Fulda, Hessen, Germany, Europe, Earth
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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yes, it seems, that the controller can 'control' (hu8h!) the 'little big disk with 80G'.
Hopefully, it can boot from it.
I'm just installing it...
Yes, I used s to write the sun-disklabel.
Seems to work
Thanks,
krgds, well, cheers !
Frank _________________ always look at yellow site of Linux on the PPC.
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frankOnPPC Apprentice
Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 169 Location: Fulda, Hessen, Germany, Europe, Earth
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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Just to let you know :
the disk must be jumpered down to 32G and 15 heads, otherwise OBP (the version 3.15, on my u5) can't handle it.
So it comes down, that you can use disk to replace the internal seagate.
As far as I know, just the Hitachi/IBM Disk can be jumpered down to 32G.
Well, as disk not so expansive as it was in the past....
Cheers,
Frank _________________ always look at yellow site of Linux on the PPC.
Its PPCNUX. |
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Frank: An OBP upgrade might fix that,latest for u5/10 is 3.31. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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riposte n00b
Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 69 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:36 am Post subject: |
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gust4voz wrote: | Frank: An OBP upgrade might fix that,latest for u5/10 is 3.31. |
Sure will......I think the max disk size will then be 137gigs - certainly the 80gig will have no problems.
I think flashing the OBP to the latest will also allow the use of the faster 50NS ram. |
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frankOnPPC Apprentice
Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 169 Location: Fulda, Hessen, Germany, Europe, Earth
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: |
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thanks,
by the way, how to get it, how to flash OBP (without solaris) ?
I never considered this as an option, so this silly questions ...
Cheers,
Frank
And, well, Xorg 7.1 runs quite well on the u5 and its ati mach. _________________ always look at yellow site of Linux on the PPC.
Its PPCNUX. |
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w.hill Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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I scored a Sun Blade 100 which required an OBP upgrade to work. In the end I took the lazy way out and installed Solaris and then applied the OBP software.
I'm also mucking around with an Ultra 5, with a Type 5 Keyboard. So far I can't get the keyboard detected with the kernel that I've built. I'd be interested in seeing how you go. |
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/configs/
My configs are kind of loaded so you might want to trim (though not much at first if you're messing the keyboard hehe).
Anyway it's mostly modular where possible so they're not too huge - just longer build times. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
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w.hill Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 133 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:25 am Post subject: |
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I'll give it a go. Not withstanding my recent post.
Thank goodness for SSH - I'm getting tired of using the boot CD and manually remounting the drives. |
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frankOnPPC Apprentice
Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 169 Location: Fulda, Hessen, Germany, Europe, Earth
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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well, that sun type 5 keyboard drived my crazy.
I dont use the keyboard mapping. well., if you have us or engl. type its ok.
for a german type 5 I use
# /etc/conf.d/keymaps
# Use KEYMAP to specify the default console keymap. There is a complete tree
# of keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps to choose from.
#KEYMAP="sunkeymap"
#KEYMAP="sunt5-de-latin1"
KEYMAP="de"
# Should we first load the 'windowkeys' console keymap? Most x86 users will
# say "yes" here. Note that non-x86 users should leave it as "no".
SET_WINDOWKEYS="no"
# The maps to load for extended keyboards. Most users will leave this as is.
EXTENDED_KEYMAPS=""
#EXTENDED_KEYMAPS="backspace keypad euro"
# Tell dumpkeys(1) to interpret character action codes to be
# from the specified character set.
# This only matters if you set UNICODE="yes" in /etc/rc.conf.
# For a list of valid sets, run `dumpkeys --help`
DUMPKEYS_CHARSET=""
well, it does, not perfectly, but good enaugh.
Cheers Frank
BTW : xserver-1.1.1-r1 brook my xorg. Ati-lookup-Patch gone (again) ? _________________ always look at yellow site of Linux on the PPC.
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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> Cheers Frank
> BTW : xserver-1.1.1-r1 brook my xorg. Ati-lookup-Patch gone (again) ?
Sync and re-emerge xorg-server, there was a gaffe with the final patch that fixes it from upstream. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
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frankOnPPC Apprentice
Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 169 Location: Fulda, Hessen, Germany, Europe, Earth
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: |
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yes, thanks,
run as it was before.
Cheers Frank _________________ always look at yellow site of Linux on the PPC.
Its PPCNUX. |
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