Thank you Theo and Christian for your replies. This machine has just been upgraded from 5.3 to 6.5! I did lose half the memory, POST detected errors and left me with 4GB usable.
The uplcom(4) from my previous mail has been destroyed and disposed of - a replacement uplcom(4) worked just fine. OpenBSD 6.5 (GENERIC) #153: Mon Apr 8 17:32:51 MDT 2019 dera...@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 4294967296 (4096MB) avail mem = 4203978752 (4009MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root: Sun Fire V215 cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi (rev 3.4) @ 1504 MHz cpu0: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 64K data (32 b/l), 1024K external (64 b/l) "memory-controller" at mainbus0 not configured pyro0 at mainbus0: "Fire", rev 3, ign 780, bus A 2 to 13 pyro0: dvma map c0000000-ffffffff pci0 at pyro0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "PLX PEX 8532" rev 0xbb pci1 at ppb0 bus 3 ppb1 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "PLX PEX 8532" rev 0xbb pci2 at ppb1 bus 4 ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Acer Labs M5249" rev 0x00 pci3 at ppb2 bus 5 ohci0 at pci3 dev 28 function 0 "Acer Labs M5237 USB" rev 0x03: ivec 0x780, version 1.0, legacy support ohci1 at pci3 dev 28 function 1 "Acer Labs M5237 USB" rev 0x03: ivec 0x780, version 1.0, legacy support ehci0 at pci3 dev 28 function 3 "Acer Labs M5239 USB2" rev 0x01: ivec 0x781 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "Acer Labs EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ebus0 at pci3 dev 30 function 0 "Acer Labs M1575 ISA" rev 0x00 rtc0 at ebus0 addr 70-73: m5823 pciide0 at pci3 dev 31 function 0 "Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE" rev 0xc8: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide0: using ivec 0x784 for native-PCI interrupt atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, DVD-RAM UJ-85JS, F100> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Acer Labs OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Acer Labs OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb3 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "PLX PEX 8532" rev 0xbb: msi pci4 at ppb3 bus 6 ppb4 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 "PLX PEX 8532" rev 0xbb: msi pci5 at ppb4 bus 7 ppb5 at pci1 dev 9 function 0 "PLX PEX 8532" rev 0xbb pci6 at ppb5 bus 8 ppb6 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xb5 pci7 at ppb6 bus 9 bge0 at pci7 dev 4 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5714" rev 0xa3, BCM5715 A3 (0x9003): ivec 0x795, address 00:14:4f:b0:85:1a brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5714 10/100/1000baseT/SX PHY, rev. 0 bge1 at pci7 dev 4 function 1 "Broadcom BCM5714" rev 0xa3, BCM5715 A3 (0x9003): ivec 0x796, address 00:14:4f:b0:85:1b brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5714 10/100/1000baseT/SX PHY, rev. 0 ppb7 at pci7 dev 8 function 0 "ServerWorks HT-1000 PCIX" rev 0xb4 pci8 at ppb7 bus 10 ppb8 at pci1 dev 10 function 0 "PLX PEX 8532" rev 0xbb pci9 at ppb8 bus 11 ppb9 at pci9 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks PCIE-PCIX" rev 0xb5 pci10 at ppb9 bus 12 bge2 at pci10 dev 4 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5714" rev 0xa3, BCM5715 A3 (0x9003): ivec 0x796, address 00:14:4f:b0:85:1c brgphy2 at bge2 phy 1: BCM5714 10/100/1000baseT/SX PHY, rev. 0 bge3 at pci10 dev 4 function 1 "Broadcom BCM5714" rev 0xa3, BCM5715 A3 (0x9003): ivec 0x797, address 00:14:4f:b0:85:1d brgphy3 at bge3 phy 1: BCM5714 10/100/1000baseT/SX PHY, rev. 0 ppb10 at pci10 dev 8 function 0 "ServerWorks HT-1000 PCIX" rev 0xb4 pci11 at ppb10 bus 13 mpi0 at pci11 dev 1 function 0 "Symbios Logic SAS1064" rev 0x02: msi mpi0: SAS1064, firmware 1.8.4.0 scsibus2 at mpi0: 63 targets sym0 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST973402SSUN72G, 0603> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.5000c50007e1df0b sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST973402SSUN72G, 0603> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.5000c50007e1df0b sd0: 70007MB, 512 bytes/sector, 143374738 sectors sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <FUJITSU, MBB2073RCSUN72G, 0505> SCSI2 0/direct fixed naa.500000e019033ec0 sd1: 70007MB, 512 bytes/sector, 143374738 sectors pyro1 at mainbus0: "Fire", rev 3, ign 7c0, bus B 2 to 255 pyro1: dvma map c0000000-ffffffff pci12 at pyro1 ebus1 at mainbus0 "flashprom" at ebus1 addr 0-1fffff not configured com0 at ebus1 addr 80-87 ivec 0x7c8: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console com1 at ebus1 addr 40-47 ivec 0x7c9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo "rmc-comm" at ebus1 addr 0-7 ivec 0x7ca not configured "gpio" at ebus1 addr c0-c0 not configured led0 at ebus1 addr 0-80: rev 0x5a power0 at ebus1 addr 40-c1 ivec 0x7c3 "i2c" at mainbus0 not configured vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets bootpath: /pci@1e,600000/pci@0,0/pci@a,0/pci@0,0/pci@8,0/scsi@1,0/disk@0,0 root on sd0a (e580d48835930ea5.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 09:44:39PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: | Hi all, | | In an attempt to resurrect some old machines (and test some 6.5 | snaps), I pulled out a bunch of old sparc64 machines from storage | yesterday. These have been shelved for a very long time (and i've | tossed two out because they have definitely failed). | | Unfortunately, I've not been able to type anything useful on the | serial console. So my current thought is that this simply doesn't | work with the USB to serial adapter I'm trying: | | uplcom0 at uhub3 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller" rev 1.10/3.00 addr 9 | | Could there be pin-out or flow control issues that allow incoming data | (from serial console on the sparc64 box to the cu(1) running on my | laptop with this uplcom(4)), but that give erratic behavior when | trying to type? Pressing enter once at a login prompt gives me: | | Please login: | Please login: | Please login: | Please login: | Please login: Sun(tm) Advanced Lights Out Man | Please Enter password: | | I've uploaded a couple of script(1) typescripts for the four machines | I tried that have the cu session output captured: | | http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/serial_script/v210_1.txt | http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/serial_script/v210_2.txt | http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/serial_script/v215.txt | http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/serial_script/solair_workstation.txt | | In all cases I just did `script -c "cu -l cuaU0"`, none of them | properly responds to any input on the console. The solair machine | doesn't respond at all, it just sits there, the v210 machines don't | boot (admittedly, I forgot the ALOM password, but I can't type it in | either). The v215 actually boots into an old OpenBSD 5.3 install but | has completely garbled up output after it boots. | | Any advice on how to get any of these going again? Will this work at | all with the uplcom(4) device, or do I need a true serial port on a | machine somewhere? | | Thanks, | | Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd | | -- | >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ | +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] | http://www.weirdnet.nl/ | -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/