10-17-2007
Sun Blade 150 - I can't hook up extra drives
I'm not familiar with this particular machine and it's baffling me. For those that are familar with the workstation, allow me to paint a picture. If you were looking down on the machine (open) you would see the main board and then a riser board. On the left side of the riser board are jacks including an IDE jack. On the right side is another IDE Jack. The right side is where the single hard drive and CDROM are connected.
What I can't figure out is why when I hook up anything to the left side of the riser board, the machine will NOT boot. In fact, the hard drive doesn't even spin up when it's conntected on the left.
And when I connect a 2nd IDE drive in place of the CDROM (center of the ide cable), the OS doesn't see it when i run the "format" command. I have the HDD in the middle jumpered to slave, and the HDD on the end jumpered to "master w/ slave"
My goal is to hook two hard drives up to this machine which i'm using to learn Solaris 10 and become certified. I don't belive there is an malfunction, as I have two other Blade 150's and they behave the same way.
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grbeep(7d) Devices grbeep(7d)
NAME
grbeep - Platform-dependent beep driver for SMBus-based hardware
SYNOPSIS
beep@unit-address
DESCRIPTION
The grbeep driver generates beeps on platforms (including Sun Blade 100, 150, 1500, 2500) that use SMBbus-based registers and USB key-
boards. When the KIOCCMD ioctl is issued to the USB keyboard module (see usbkbm(7M)) with command KBD_CMD_BELL/KBD_CMD_NOBELL, usbkbm(7M)
passes the request to the grbeep driver to turn the beep on and off, respectively.
FILES
/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/grbeep
64-bit ELF kernel driver
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |SMBus-based SPARC |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcarx.u |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
kbd(1), attributes(5), bbc_beep(7D), kb(7M), usbkbm(7M)
Writing Device Drivers
DIAGNOSTICS
None
SunOS 5.10 18 Dec 2001 grbeep(7d)