[Debootloaders-silo] Bug#688521: SILO first boot after power-on or reset fails on Netra T1 200

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

All the drives I've tested are 9Gb SCA. Of the discs available to me 
(WD, Seagate, Fujitsu, IBM) no disc that has been branded Compaq works 
adequately, while discs that have been branded Sun or are generic (e.g. 
straight from Seagate) are OK. I have never seen this problem on any 
other systems, Sun or otherwise.

My suspicion is that the variant/version of OBP on these machines 
recognises that a disc has been badged by an OEM, assumes that it's Sun 
without checking in further detail, and tries to do something Sun-specific.

I think this issue should probably be closed since I don't think it's a 
Linux or SILO problem. The most that can be done is make sure a warning 
is available in an appropriate place in platform-specific notes.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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