[XCSSA] Anyone have experience with a Sun V880?

[Dennis Myhand]

I am no rising Sun but I would say that they never intended for the 
machine to boot from the tape drive so there is probably nothing in the 
firmware that would tell the machine to boot from there, no matter what 
the install says to do.  Probably, without the Fibre Channel HDs, it 
ain't gonna boot unless you can figure a way to modify the firmware, or 
whatever Sun has used in place of BIOS.  JMTC, YMMV, UAOR, VWP, DTTAH, 
PEACE, Dennis in Victoria

KC wrote:
> I have this delicious behemoth taking up residence in my garage... A friend saved it from the crusher when I couldn't afford to and then didn't have a home for it... 
> 
> Spent a few nights working on it. The only thing it doesn't have is the hard drives. FC. Don't have any lying around, and I don't have the caddies, either. Have lots of SCSIs lying around. Hooked up a SCSI drive to the ribbon that Sun intended for a tape drive, instead. Ran through the Solaris 10 install, looked successful, but I speak bash, not Solaris.
> 
> It installs, but when it tells me to reboot, it just wont reboot. Goes back to Diags and same loops.
> 
> I'm starting to wonder if Sun intentionally made it so that it would not boot from a non-Sun hard drive... or a hard drive that is not in the original FC slots.
> 
> Just, off the cuff, anyone know Sun well enough to say if that sounds credible?
> 
> I'm sure I will keep digging on it...
> 
> kc
> 
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