I realized this was an RTFM after I had sent it. mea culpa.
The problem:
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I just installed a SPC (Serial Parallel Controller) SBus
card and upgraded my SPARC Classic to Solaris 2.4 3/95.
The Solaris 2.4 Open Issues and Late-Breaking News
Revision A October 1994 p7 says
"It is not necessary to load the unbundled stc driver for
the Sun SPC (Serial Parallel Controller SBus card) on top
of Solaris 2.4 Software. If you do so, several
unrecoverable errors will occur, as detailed in Bug ID
1156748"
Aside from the odd punctuation, this is not very
helpful.
I followed this advice but can find no devices for the
additional SPC ports. In short they don't exist.
I can find no patches for the mentioned bug 1156748.
Any ideas, except going back to 2.3, appreciated.
Andrewb
The real Problem:
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I was too tentative installing the card and did not push the
card far enough into the SBus slot. I identified this with
the prom monitor command "show-sbus", thanks to Scott Kamin.
The fix was to open it up and give the card a shove ;-).
Also showed "Invalid FCode start byte ffed4000" as the
first message after booting. This has gone with the fix
and now I see "SPIF/stc FCode initialization complete"
instead.
Other suggestions:
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1. boot -r
2. touch /reconfigure and init 6
Thanks to:
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gunn@lardav.com (David Gunn)
Paul Ivanov <paul@ksu.ras.ru>
brobbins@mako.Newbridge.COM (Bert Robbins)
celeste@xs.com (Celeste Stokely)
dsomers@roam.agfa.be (Dirk Somers)
paulo@dcc.unicamp.br (Paulo Licio de Geus)
root@ewi.ch (### SUPERVISOR ###)
Scott.Kamin@Central.Sun.COM (Scott Kamin [Sun Denver SE])
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Andrew Baillie email: andrewb@crufad.unsw.edu.au
Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders
University of NSW at St Vincent's Hospital
299 Forbes Street Phone: +61 2 332 1013
Darlinghurst NSW 2010 Fax: +61 2 332 4316
AUSTRALIA
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