[Suns-at-Home] Re: ss10 simms

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: "snowflake snowflake" <bdeath@hotmail.com>
"
"I recently noticed that my sun sparc 2 had 2 interfaces (aui). One onboard, 
"and one extra card. So i decided to pull out the card and install it in a 
"newer sparc, sun sparc 10 (64 megs ram etc etc) which would do nicely as a 
"firewall. Ofcourse, somehow the card did not fit, but i figured i probably 
"missed out on something so i kind of "ripped" out the metal which is holding 

hack jobs are never a good idea -- hacks due to impatience + ignorance
the worst...

"out to put the network card in nicely. That worked. no problemo. (is there 
"some kind of weird trick to put these cards in or are they just not 
"compatible???) Anyway i had to pull one memory simm out as well, laying it 
"on the floor.

the sbus-card faceplates are different, but iirc the 10's is the
bigger...  maybe i have it backwards.

i don't understand at all why you had to touch the simms to install an
sbus card.

"After i completely screwed my sparc ;-( i rebooted it and it said;
"
"48 megs of ram <= not true! i had 64 megs
"and something like
""can't deduct msgbuf from physical memory (program terminated)

this is a symptom of bad/loose/missing simm in the low memory slot.
there -must- be a simm in this slot!  confusing this is that the slots
are -not- in mem-address order.

"I'm really pissed at myself that i've gone this far and now i most likely 
"fscked up a perfectly good sparc. I think it might had some static 
"eletricity or something.

this is possible.
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