Force Computers SPARC CPU-3CE, Installation Manual

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Page 3: ...ed Switches 9 1 5 9 Parallel Port or Floppy Interface via VME P2 Connector 10 1 5 10 Ethernet via Front Panel or VME P2 Connector 11 1 6 OpenBoot Firmware 12 1 6 1 Boot the System 12 1 6 2 NVRAM Boot...

Page 4: ...Table of Contents SPARC CPU 5CE Installation Guide Page ii FORCE COMPUTERS...

Page 5: ...Parallel Port Interface Via VME P2 Connector 10 Figure 4 Ethernet Interface Availability 11 Figure 5 Diagram of the Front Panel 23 Figure 6 Pinout of theEthernet Cable Connector 26 Figure 7 Serial Por...

Page 6: ...List of Figures SPARC CPU 5CE Installation Guide Page iv FORCE COMPUTERS...

Page 7: ...atures of the Front Panel 24 Table 7 SPARC CPU 5CE Connectors 25 Table 8 Ethernet the Connector Pinout 26 Table 9 Serial Ports A and B Connector Pinout for RS 232 27 Table 10 Keyboard Mouse Connector...

Page 8: ...List of Tables SPARC CPU 5CE Installation Guide Page vi FORCE COMPUTERS...

Page 9: ...ect board installation and uninstallation can damage circuits or shorten their lifetime Before installing or uninstalling the board read this Installation section Before installing or uninstalling the...

Page 10: ...l Reference Manual as well as two additional books The SPARC CPU 5CE Technical Reference Manual provides a comprehensive hardware and software guide to your board and is intended for those persons who...

Page 11: ...FORCE COMPUTERS Page 3 SSPARC CPU 5CE Installation Guide FIGURE 1 Diagram of the CPU 5CE...

Page 12: ...E 2 Highlighted Diagram of the CPU 5CE SW8 Rotary Switch SW5 SW9 S4 VME SBus Slot 1 at P3 microSPARC II NCR89105 NCR89100 SBus Slot 2 at P4 B3 B1 B2 SW2 USER EPROM RTC NVRAM BOOT EPROM J125 J124 Devic...

Page 13: ...SW2 4 SW2 3 OFF OFF User Flash EPROM write protection ON disable OFF enable Boot Flash EPROM write protection ON disable OFF enable SW2 2 SW2 1 ON OFF Test Switch must be ON Test Switch must be OFF SW...

Page 14: ...ON Available OFF Not Available SW4 5 ON CTS on Front Panel Connector for RS 232 or CTS on Front Panel Connector for RS 422 ON Available OFF Not Available SW4 6 OFF RTXC on Front Panel Connector for R...

Page 15: ...ot set the switches SW4 1 and SW4 2 or SW4 3 and SW4 4 or SW4 5 and SW4 6 to ON at the same time SWITCH 9 SW9 2 SW9 1 ON ON External VMEbus SYSRESET ON VMEbus SYSRESET generates on board RESET OFF VME...

Page 16: ...SPARC CPU 5CE in a miniforce chassis please first disable the VMEbus System Controller function by setting switch SW5 1 to OFF 1 5 2 VMEbus SYSRESET Switches When the SPARC CPU 5CE is a VMEbus slot 1...

Page 17: ...a microforce chassis please first disable the SCSI termination by setting switch SW2 6 to OFF 1 5 6 Boot Flash EPROM Write Protection Both Boot Flash EPROMs are write protected via the switch SW2 3 Wh...

Page 18: ...switch matrix plugged into B2 and B3 This means of course that by default the parallel port interface is not available via the VMEbus P2 connector To enable the parallel port interface via the VME P2...

Page 19: ...uration must be changed Take a moment to examine the diagram to see how one achieves the desired configuration FIGURE 4 Ethernet Interface Availability By default the Ethernet interface is available t...

Page 20: ...booting the system Booting is the process of loading and executing a stand alone program such as the operating system After it is powered on the system usually boots automatically after it has passed...

Page 21: ...o be booted filename is relative to the root of the selected device If no filename is specified the boot command uses the value of boot file NVRAM parameter The NVRAM parameters used for booting are d...

Page 22: ...s espdma esp sd 3 0 First internal disk SCSI ID 3 disk2 iommu sbus espdma esp sd 2 0 Additional internal disk SCSI ID 2 disk1 iommu sbus espdma esp sd 1 0 External disk SCSI ID 1 disk0 iommu sbus espd...

Page 23: ...nor a filename is supplied the boot command of the Forth Monitor takes the omitted values form the NVRAM configuration parameters If the parameter diag switch is false boot device and boot file are u...

Page 24: ...table below lists several diagnostic routines Table 4 Diagnostic Routines To check the on board SCSI bus for connected devices type Command Description probe scsi Identify devices connected to the on...

Page 25: ...are tested When you use the memory testing routine the system tests the number of megabytes of memory specified in the NVRAM configuration parameter selftest megs If the NVRAM configuration parameter...

Page 26: ...raffic displaying each time it receives a valid packet and displaying X each time it receives a packet with an error that can be detected by the network hardware interface ok watch clock Watching the...

Page 27: ...fic to each individual machine including the serial number date of manufacture and assigned Ethernet address The following table lists these commands Table 5 Commands to Display System Information Com...

Page 28: ...pe A list of all available help categories is displayed These categories may also contain subcategories To get help for special forth words or subcategories just type help name An example is shown on...

Page 29: ...ok ok help memory Category Memory access dump addr length display memory at addr for length bytes fill addr length byte fill memory starting at addr with byte move src dest length copy length bytes f...

Page 30: ...urn off the power before handling the board or its components Turn off the power before installing the board in a VMEbus rack 1 6 7 2 Replacing the ROMs 1 Remove the existing OpenBoot ROM from socket...

Page 31: ...FORCE COMPUTERS Page 23 SSPARC CPU 5CE Installation Guide 1 7 Front Panel FIGURE 5 Diagram of the Front Panel RESET ABORT RUN BM STATUS A E T H E R N E T B K B D S E R I A L D I A G...

Page 32: ...in Section 3 of the SPARC CPU 5CE Technical Reference Manual Table 6 Features of the Front Panel Device Function Name Switch Reset RESET Switch Abort ABORT LED RUN RESET RUN LED VMEbus Bus Master BM L...

Page 33: ...onnectors Function Location Type Manufacturer Part Number Ethernet Front Panel 15 pin D Sub AMP 747845 4 Serial Port A Front Panel 26 pin Fine Pitch AMP 749831 2 Serial Port B Front Panel 26 pin Fine...

Page 34: ...rnet connector The figure below shows the Ethernet connector and pin numbers FIGURE 6 Pinout of theEthernet Cable Connector Table 8 Ethernet the Connector Pinout Pin Function 1 GND 2 Collision 3 Trans...

Page 35: ...o serial I O ports are independent full duplex channels The table below shows the pinout of serial ports A and B The table is valid for both serial I O connectors A and B FIGURE 7 Serial Ports A and B...

Page 36: ...nector Pinout The keyboard and mouse port is available on the front panel via a Mini DIN connector FIGURE 8 Keyboard Mouse Connector Table 10 Keyboard Mouse Connector Pinout Pin Function 1 GND 2 GND 3...

Page 37: ...R Data 5 8 SCSI Data 7 8 VME A28 8 FPY MOTEN CENTR Data 6 9 SCSI DP 9 VME A29 9 FPY DIR CENTR Data 7 10 GND 10 VME A30 10 FPY STEP CENTR ACK 11 GND 11 VME A31 11 FPY WRDATA CENTR BSY 12 GND 12 GND 12...

Page 38: ...TH TRA 2 26 RESERVED 26 VME D27 26 ETH COL 2 ETH COL 2 27 RESERVED 27 VME D28 27 ETH COL 2 ETH COL 2 28 RESERVED 28 VME D29 28 GND GND 29 TxD Port A 29 VME D30 29 TxD Port B TxD Port B 30 RxD Port A 3...

Page 39: ...connector The diagram below shows all the connectors This IOBP 10 back panel is especially designed for the SPARC CPU 5CE Do not use any other I O back panels on the SPARC CPU 5CE for example the IOBP...

Page 40: ...NTR Data 6 9 SCSI DP 9 N C 9 FPY DIR CENTR Data 7 10 GND 10 N C 10 FPY STEP CENTR ACK 11 GND 11 N C 11 FPY WRDATA CENTR BSY 12 GND 12 GND 12 FPY WRGATE CENTR PE 13 TERMPWR 13 N C 13 FPY TRACK0 CENTR A...

Page 41: ...ailability on page 11 27 RESERVED 27 N C 27 ETH COL 2 ETH COL 2 28 RESERVED 28 N C 28 GND GND 29 TxD Port A 29 N C 29 TxD Port B TxD Port B 30 RxD Port A 30 N C 30 RxD Port B RxD Port B 31 RTS Port A...

Page 42: ...CSI Data 3 9 GND 10 SCSI Data 4 11 GND 12 SCSI Data 5 13 GND 14 SCSI Data 6 15 GND 16 SCSI Data 7 17 GND 18 SCSI DP 19 GND 20 GND 21 GND 22 GND 23 GND 24 GND 25 GND 26 TERMPWR 27 N C 28 GND 29 GND 30...

Page 43: ...Y EJECT 2 FPY DENSEL 3 GND 4 FPY DENSENS 5 GND 6 N C 7 GND 8 FPY INDEX 9 GND 10 FPY DRVSEL 11 GND 12 N C 13 GND 14 N C 15 GND 16 FPY MOTEN 17 GND 18 FPY DIR 19 GND 20 FPY STEP 21 GND 22 FPY WRDATA 23...

Page 44: ...5 CENTR Data 1 6 GND 7 CENTR Data 2 8 GND 9 CENTR Data 3 10 GND 11 CENTR Data 4 12 GND 13 CENTR Data 5 14 GND 15 CENTR Data 6 16 GND 17 CENTR Data 7 18 GND 19 CENTR ACK 20 GND 21 CENTR BSY 22 GND 23 C...

Page 45: ...3 RESERVED 4 RESERVED 5 TxD Port B 6 TxD Port A 7 RxD Port B 8 RxD Port A 9 RTS Port B 10 RTS Port A 11 CTS Port B 12 CTS Port A 13 GND 14 GND Table 17 IOBP 10 Pinout Ethernet Pin Function 1 GND 2 Col...

Page 46: ...48 bit 6 byte Ethernet address FIGURE 11 The 32 bit 4 byte host ID ok banner 47 40 39 32 31 24 23 16 15 8 7 0 0 0 8 0 4 2 Byte 5 4 3 2 1 0 B 0 X X X X These 3 bytes always remain 0016 8016 4216 Speci...

Page 47: ...ion of the publication history of this SPARC CPU 5CE Installation Guide Table 18 History of Manual Revision No Description Date 1 First Print July 1994 2 Editorial Changes July 1995 3 BusNet and How t...

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