I've recently acquired a Sun A1000 raid box (with no drives).

For initial testing, I made up the necessary serial cable and connected
it to ttya of the Ultra-2 (with Solaris 9), and put in a differential
wide SCSI card into the system, and a differential terminator on the far
side of the A1000

probe-scsi-all sees the box as a number of devices at a single
(selectable) SCSI id. (While the box still has no drives installed.)

The battery took a charge and appears to be happy.

*But* -- when trying to log into the box to examine/tune its
configuration, I was confronted with a request for a password. (At this
time I captured the screen output, including the device serial number.

After trying several passwords and non-passwords, I decided to
see whether I could flush the password from the system.

To this end, I pulled the "Snap-Hat" battery/crystal assembly
from the chip which appears to be clock and NV-RAM (similar to the
monolithic one in the usual Sun machines).

Well ... I may have *changed* the password, but I did not
*clear* it.

However, I *do* appear to have cleared the serial number, which
now shows up as:


================================================== ====================
Press within 5 seconds: <ESC> for SHELL, <BREAK> for baud rate


################################################## #
### ###
### LSI Logic Series 3/4 SCSI RAID Controller ###
### Copyright 1999, LSI Logic Inc. ###
### ###
### Serial number: TN#0000000000000 ###
### ###
################################################## #


Enter password to access shell:
================================================== ====================

FWIW -- the serial number used to be:


================================================== ====================
### Serial number: 1T04470503 ###
================================================== ====================

Any clues as to my next steps?

One would be to purchase the board from a D1000, and use that to
convert this to a "JABOD" (in Sun's terminology). This should actually
suffice for my needs, but the RAID capability would be nicer. (After
getting beyond this, if possible, I then start digging into the
Solaris-9 CD-ROMs, to see whether the program to communicate with this is
present, or whether I will need to purchase this. The cost of that may
still make the conversion to a D1000 the better choice.

Thanks,
DoN.
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