02-21-2010
TTY Issue with Sunblade 150
I purchased a Sunblade 150 from Ebay. It had 512MB RAM and 80GB hard disk. I recently purchased additional RAM and another 80GB disk, and installed them. The RAM goes through POST without issues. I just can't get beyond the OK prompt. I am using the serial console.
I have been unable to make the on-board graphics work, and do not have a SUN mouse and keyboard. I am content with the serial console. Using the serial console, I can see the machine going through all its various tests...prior to shutting it down, I went to OBP and set the diagnostics flag to true. Everything appears copasetic
Except that I cannot send any data to the serial console. I dug out my RS-232 tester, and it does appear to have a problem. The CD (Carrier Detect), DSR (Data Set Ready), RTS (Ready to Send), DTR (Data Terminal Ready), CTS (Clear to Send), and RD (Receive Detect) lights are lit as normal, however, the TD (Transmit Detect) is not lit.
To check the cable, I connected it to my RS6000/B50 server. All 7 lights come on as expected and everything works. The problem therefore is not my cable, nor is it the XP system that I am using PuTTY to make the connection with. This cable did work prior to the installation of RAM and hard disk. I was able to install Solaris 10 via the serial console without event.
I had to purchase new IDE cables for the upgrade--the ones that came with it were far too short.
This makes no sense to me at all. Should I remove the RAM? I did try it with the 2nd Hard Disk disconnected, but the problem returned.
Why is the Sunblade not asserting TD? Everything else seems just fine.
I read elsewhere that I cannot use a standard mouse and keyboard with this thing. Further, the on-board video is deader than Elvis--at least there is a rumor that Elvis lives. Could these issues be related?
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CZ(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual CZ(4)
NAME
cz -- Cyclades-Z series multi-port serial adapter device driver
SYNOPSIS
cz* at pci? dev ? function ?
DESCRIPTION
The cz device driver supports the Cyclades-Z series of multi-port serial adapters. The Cyclades-Z is an intelligent serial controller com-
prising:
o PLX9060ES PCI bus interface
o Xilinx XC5204 FPGA
o IDT R3052 MIPS CPU
The MIPS CPU runs firmware provided by the device driver. Communication with the MIPS is performed by modifying data structures located in
board local RAM or host RAM.
The Cyclades-Z comes in three basic flavors:
o Cyclades-8Zo rev. 1 -- This is an older 8-port board with no FPGA. The serial ports are provided by an octopus cable.
o Cyclades-8Zo rev. 2 -- This is the newer 8-port board. The serial ports are provided by an octopus cable.
o Cyclades-Ze -- This is the expandable version of the Cyclades-Z. It uses an HD-50 SCSI cable to connect the board to a 1U rack
mountable serial expansion box. Each box has 16 RJ45 serial ports, and up to 4 boxes may be chained together, for a total of 64
ports. Boxes 3 and 4 require their own external power supply, otherwise the firmware will refuse to start (as it cannot communi-
cate with the UARTs in those boxes).
The Cyclades-Z has several features to improve performance under high serial I/O load:
o The board may operate in interrupt-driven mode or polled mode to reduce interrupt load.
o Each channel has a large input and output buffer.
o Each channel may be programmed to generate an interrupt based on reception of a specific character, e.g. a PPP End-Of-Frame charac-
ter.
o The MIPS CPU on the board performs all flow-control handling.
FILES
/dev/ttyCZnnnn -- dial-in (normal) TTY device
/dev/dtyCZnnnn -- dial-out TTY device
SEE ALSO
pci(4), termios(4), tty(4)
HISTORY
The cz driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.
AUTHORS
The cz driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com> and
Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com> of Zembu Labs, Inc.
BUGS
The cz driver does not currently implement communication via host RAM. While this may improve performance by reducing the number of PCI mem-
ory space read/write cycles, it is not straightforward to implement with the current bus_dma(9) API.
Interrupt mode has not been tested.
There is no support for reading or writing the EEPROM connected to the PLX PCI bus controller.
BSD
May 17, 2000 BSD