[rescue] howto make multiple main boards work on a Sun Sparc 670/MP

[Michael S. Schiller]

Would that be the 'skip-vme-loopback?' setting? Or is this another setting?

-Mike

Dave McGuire wrote:

>   You need to be running relatively new boot ROMs, though I don't
> recall which version in particular...if you do a "printenv" at the
> "ok" prompt and you see an option called "vme-loopback?" then you ROMs
> are new enough.  Set that option to "yes"...multiple boards can now
> coexist in the same backplane.  I've seen this done with up to four or
> five 4/600 boards in a 690 chassis.
>
>   UMD, eh?  I'm up Route 1 from you in Laurel.
>
>            -Dave McGuire
>
> On June 14, Rob wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently picked up a Sun 670/MP, and a spare cpu board, and it would be
> > really nifty if I could get them to both work at the same time.  From talking
> > to Wise People, it would seem that  I can't get them to work as one computer
> > with shared resources: is that correct?  If I read the FAQ correctly, I am
> > talking about two fully populated (4cpu, 128 mb) 501-1899 boards, but I can't
> > find the number on the boards to confirm the model number.
> >
> > If that is the case, I read in a different FAQ something about being able to
> > make them work as multiple independent computers.  Unfortunately, all it says
> > about *how* to do this is it would be 'tricky'.  This is from
> > http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref2.html , "Miscellaneous Questions and
> > Answers" #9 .   Does anyone have any information about how to do this?
> >
> > I apologize if this is a common question.  I tried looking through the
> > archives, but if there is a search feature, I couldn't find it.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > - Rob
> > .
> >
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