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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:11 am    Post subject: tips and hints welcome for Ultra 5 Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

I just got an old Ultra5 and I'm installing Gentoo.
I don't know the answer of questions #1 and #2 (and I would be pleased to).
You can setup the sun disk label using fdisk and the s key.
See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-sparc.xml?part=1&chap=4 (sorry for the RTFM :wink:).

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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....

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Frank: An OBP upgrade might fix that,latest for u5/10 is 3.31.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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) ?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

> 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.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, thanks,
run as it was before.
Cheers Frank
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