Ultra60, OPB, & Diff SCSI adapter

From: Jon Godfrey (Jon.Godfrey@primus.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 14:28:58 EDT


I've recently pulled a dual differential SCSI adapter from one of my E420s
that wasn't using it, and my goal is to attach a D1000 to my Ultra60.
Following the docs for the card installation, I'm supposed to see the
adapter when I issue a 'probe-scsi-all' from the OBP. The problem is that
I'm not seeing this. When the system runs POST at boot up, it does see the
card during the PCI slot probe and identifies it as 'scsiscsi'. When the
system boots, no new disks are seen as present. And, yes, I did boot with
the reconfigure options ;)

My new concern is maybe the OBP is too old to properly see this SCSI host
card. The current version is "OBP 3.11.25 1998/01/16 12:22" which I know is
seriously out of date. When I try to upgrade the OPB via the flash method,
I'm getting that classic error message (shown below) stating that there are
write-protected sectors in the flash chip. Best I've found from my
searching is to replace the system board to fix this. :(

Has anyone else run across a configuration similar to this and found a
solution. I'd rather not have to replace the system board if there's any
other workaround. Thoughts? Ideas? Thanks!

-jon

OBP Error Msg:
{0} ok boot disk /flash
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0 File and args: /flash
Loading ufs-file-systemFCode UFS Reader 1.11 97/07/10 16:19:15.
Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/ufsboot
Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
|

Standalone Flash PROM Update Utility, Rev. 2.7
                        Ultra(tm) 1
                        Ultra(tm) 2
                        Ultra(tm) 5/10
                        Ultra(tm) 30
                        Ultra(tm) 60 / E220R
                        Ultra(tm) 80 / E420R
                        Ultra(tm) Enterprise(tm) 250
                        Ultra(tm) Enterprise(tm) 450
                        Sun Blade(tm) 100
                        Sun Blade(tm) 1000
                        Sun Fire (tm) 280R
                        Netra(tm) T4
                        Sun Fire (tm) 880

  The Flash PROM device in this system cannot be reprogrammed.
  You need to contact your service provider for information on updating
  the FLASH PROM device in this system. For further details, please
  refer to the latest revision of
  "Sun(tm) Flash PROM Guide for Workstations and Workgroup Servers -
  Standalone Version"

  Protected sectors: 12 13 14

Program terminated
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