Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D - FreeBSD

Hardware info on main page.

This machine runs the sparc64 version of FreeBSD.

Work log

2009-06-14: getting sound to work - just load the snd_audiocs kernel module. dmesg output after 'kldload snd_audiocs':

Jun 14 20:44:57 ultra1 kernel: pcm0: <Sun Audiocs> mem 0xc000000-0xc0001ff irq 2020 on sbus0
Jun 14 20:44:57 ultra1 kernel: pcm0: [ITHREAD]
Jun 14 20:44:57 ultra1 kernel: pcm0: <CS4231A Codec Id. 10>

and 'cat /dev/sndstat':

root@ultra1# cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/sparc64)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Sun Audiocs> at mem 0xc000000 irq 2020 bufsz 32768 [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)

2009-06-14: getting moused and the mouse to work. This machine has a Sun type 5c keyboard, with attached mouse. The keyboard and mouse use connectors that looks like ps/2 plugs, but they are connected to serial ports on the machine. The mouse is connected to the /dev/cuau3 port. These lines in /etc/rc.conf does the magic:

moused_enable="YES"
moused_port="/dev/cuau3"
moused_type="mousesystems"

2009-06-13: I installed FreeBSD 7.2-release from CD (disc1) onto a small disk drive (2 GB) that I had. auto partitioning didn't work, so I manually created the following partitions (from disklabel -h):

8 partitions:
#
#    size       offset
#    ---------- ----------
  a:     537.0M         0B
  b:     778.2M     537.0M
  c:       2.1G         0B
  d:     268.5M    1315.2M
  e:     268.5M    1583.7M
  f:     274.7M    1852.2M

from swapinfo -m and df -h:

root@ultra2# swapinfo -m
Device          1M-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/da0b             742        0      742     0%
root@ultra2# df -h
Filesystem    Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0a     496M    147M    309M    32%    /
devfs         1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/da0e     248M     26K    228M     0%    /tmp
/dev/da0f     254M    141M     92M    60%    /usr
/dev/da0d     248M    270K    228M     0%    /var

Output from dmesg: normal, verbose.

2009-06-13: I found a working CD-ROM drive - see main page.

2009-06-13: The CD-ROM drive was disconnected. I reconnected power and data cables, and booted the machine. From dmesg:

cd0 at esp0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
cd0: <TOSHIBA XM5701TASUN12XCD 0997> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8)
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Media load or eject failed

and there are "motor noises" coming from the drive upon boot, and when the eject button is pressed. The drive is not working.

2009-06-06: I booted FreeBSD 5.3-stable on this machine. dmesg output: normal. console bug: I must type slowly, or some keystrokes doesn't register. The disk drive (da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device) whines. Disk layout:

root@ultra1# disklabel -h da0
# /dev/da0:
text: FreeBSD34G cyl 4460 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63
bytes/sectors: 512
sectors/cylinder: 16065
sectors/unit: 71649900

8 partitions:
#
#    size       offset
#    ---------- ----------
  a:     271.4M         0B
  b:     781.4M     271.4M
  c:      36.7G         0B
  d:     271.4M    1052.8M
  e:     271.4M    1324.3M
  f:      16.3G    1595.7M

from swapinfo and df:

root@ultra1# swapinfo -k
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/da0b          763080        0   763080     0%
root@ultra1# df -h
Filesystem    Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0a     251M     58M    172M    25%    /
devfs         1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/da0e     251M     10K    230M     0%    /tmp
/dev/da0f      15G    5.3G    8.2G    39%    /usr
/dev/da0d     251M     20M    210M     9%    /var

2004 and older - complete history not recorded.

2004-11-01: I wrote an article called Netbooting a Sun machine from a FreeBSD machine (via archive.org).