Chris Newport wrote: > The last I heard the soc and socal code is unmaintained and did not make > the scsi changes from 2.2.x to 2.4.x. > IOW, if you want to use soc or socal you need to use a 2.2.x kernel or > fix the drivers. > > The easy workaround is to fit a SCSI card and forget about soc or socal. > You will need to tell the OBP to boot from the scsi interface.
Noted and aware of that but does anybody have soc working at all? I've got 2.2.20 on a SPARCserver here and even with the firmware patch (assuming I got it right, and noting the quoting problems in Sebastien's posting) I get FC: Sending REPORT_MAP/FLOGI/PLOGI packets soc0: Putting a FCP packet type 1 into hw queue 0 soc0: Putting 010f0100 into cmd soc0: Putting a FCP packet type 1 into hw queue 0 soc0: Putting 020f0100 into cmd FC: Login timeout FC: Sending REPORT_MAP/FLOGI/PLOGI packets soc0: Putting a FCP packet type 1 into hw queue 0 soc0: Putting 030f0100 into cmd soc0: Putting a FCP packet type 1 into hw queue 0 soc0: 0 IN 3 OUT 0 LAST 3 soc0: imask 000f0180 000f0180 FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on soc0 port B FC: Login timeout FC: Sending REPORT_MAP/FLOGI/PLOGI packets soc0: Putting a FCP packet type 1 into hw queue 0 soc0: EIO 000f0180 FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on soc0 port A soc0: Putting a FCP packet type 1 into hw queue 0 soc0: EIO 000f0180 FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on soc0 port B .. FC: Sending REPORT_MAP/FLOGI/PLOGI packets soc0: Putting a FCP packet type 1 into hw queue 0 soc0: EIO 000f0180 FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on soc0 port A soc0: Putting a FCP packet type 1 into hw queue 0 soc0: EIO 000f0180 FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on soc0 port B .. PLUTO: 0 channels online This is on hardware that works OK with Solaris 8. I know it's retro, I'm just trying to demonstrate that Sun kit's usable. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

