From eric@xenrix.net Sun Apr 8 17:51:43 2007 From: eric@xenrix.net (Mr Eric Rudolph Pizzani) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 02:51:43 +1000 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Stopping Sun PCi Kernel Panicing Message-ID: <45EF01E1-9007-41DF-A66F-6CED21CA1538@xenrix.net> Hey all, I'm just wondering if anyone knows how to stop the Sun PCi card from Kernel Panicing on Solaris 10. Obviously, it's the version 1 card. I've got the thing booting using the trick of copying the Solaris 8 drives to be Solaris 10 ones, but in the process of installing Windows 2000 Professional eventually it gets to a point where the machine kernel panics. From my dim dim memory, this is when it loads some sort of graphics driver? If so, presumably using external video would help? or stopping 2000 from changing the drivers? Any thoughts are welcome. :-) Many thanks, Eric. From kahrs@caip.rutgers.edu Thu Apr 12 17:17:57 2007 From: kahrs@caip.rutgers.edu (Mark KAHRS) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:17:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] T3 electrical -> fibre interface Message-ID: Honestly, it too was too cheap. So I bought it, yes, a T3. But it has electrical FC interfaces when the rest of my FC stuff is optical. Will any copper-fibre interface do? Also, can people share their experience with the T3 and Solaris/Linux/UCB? Thanks! From rjw@alembic.com Thu Apr 12 21:00:39 2007 From: rjw@alembic.com (Ron Wickersham) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] T3 electrical -> fibre interface In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Mark KAHRS wrote: > Honestly, it too was too cheap. > So I bought it, yes, a T3. > > But it has electrical FC interfaces when the rest of my FC stuff is > optical. > > Will any copper-fibre interface do? there are different connectors, 9-pin D or a special one somewhat reminding of usb or firewire, but it's own different type. but i think most equipment has a plug-in interface so you can just swap out the copper interface for the optical interface (which seem to go for cheap on ebay). so you can keep with the connection scheme you've already started for your network. -ron From hessel.keegstra@chello.nl Fri Apr 13 09:16:06 2007 From: hessel.keegstra@chello.nl (hessel.keegstra@chello.nl) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:16:06 +0200 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] T3 electrical -> fibre interface Message-ID: <8091206.1176452166040.JavaMail.root@amsfep12> Hi, Did SUN offer the T3 with an electrical FC HSSDC connector instead of optical? Never seen that. What kind of controller board does your T3 have? Both the T3 and the later T3+ that I know of have a SC resp. LC-SFF optical connector. The two D-Sub 9 connectors at the back are for local interconnects creating "Partner Groups" and cannot be used to connect a computer to. I have a couple of T3+ arrays at home connected to a E4K5 and a Blade2K. Works beautifully (running Solaris). Regards, Hessel ---- Mark KAHRS wrote: > > Honestly, it too was too cheap. > So I bought it, yes, a T3. > > But it has electrical FC interfaces when the rest of my FC stuff is > optical. > > Will any copper-fibre interface do? > > Also, can people share their experience with the T3 and Solaris/Linux/UCB? > > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > Suns-at-Home mailing list > Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com > http://www.net-kitchen.com/mailman/listinfo/suns-at-home From shel@tandem.artell.net Sun Apr 15 01:56:24 2007 From: shel@tandem.artell.net (Sheldon T. Hall) Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:56:24 -0700 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Fiber optic cables available Message-ID: <001801c77ef8$e4760f00$7000a8c0@artell.net> In cleaning out some boxes of old crap I've found 2 small coils of fiber optic cabling. These are available free for the asking. Two coils. Each a single run of fiber. Each about 25 feet long. Terminated with professional-looking ends. Captive safety caps on both ends of each cable. Connectors are round, metal screw-on units, labeled "MX". Cable has the following on it: Siecor Optical Cable - 07/95 SMF-28 fiber TBII Type OFNR (UL) Type OFN FT4 (CSA) A stick-on label on one end of one cable says: LO2A T3 SN: 66397 I have no idea what thee are for, or why I have them. They don't fit anything I own. Yours for postage from 98110. -Shel From thorsten.nitsch@web.de Wed Apr 18 12:49:02 2007 From: thorsten.nitsch@web.de (Thorsten Nitsch) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:49:02 +0200 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Gigabit Ethernet for Ultra 10 Message-ID: <1548784130@web.de> Hi everyone, the topic already tells the story, I'm looking for a 1GBit Ethernet Adapter for use with Solaris 10 in my Ultra 10. Does anybody have a recommendation for an inexpensive, off-the-shelve PCI card which is working with Solaris 10? Thorsten _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192 From paul@anastrophe.com Wed Apr 18 18:40:29 2007 From: paul@anastrophe.com (Paul Theodoropoulos) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:40:29 -0700 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Gigabit Ethernet for Ultra 10 In-Reply-To: <1548784130@web.de> References: <1548784130@web.de> Message-ID: <20070418174057.2566B93C8@tigger.net-kitchen.com> At 04:49 AM 4/18/2007, Thorsten Nitsch wrote: >Hi everyone, > >the topic already tells the story, I'm looking for a 1GBit Ethernet >Adapter for use with Solaris 10 in my Ultra 10. >Does anybody have a recommendation for an inexpensive, >off-the-shelve PCI card which is working with Solaris 10? as an aside, something to keep in mind is that - at least when gigabit networking first hit the 'street' back about 1998, Sun was recommending at least 300mhz of CPU capacity available to support a single gbit adapter - over and above your other computational needs. since the ultra 10 is from that general era, it may be applicable. Paul Theodoropoulos http://www.anastrophe.com From thorsten.nitsch@web.de Wed Apr 18 20:50:06 2007 From: thorsten.nitsch@web.de (Thorsten Nitsch) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:50:06 +0200 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Gigabit Ethernet for Ultra 10 Message-ID: <1549668749@web.de> > recommending at least 300mhz of CPU capacity available to support a=20 > single gbit adapter - over and above your other computational needs.=20 > since the ultra 10 is from that general era, it may be applicable. Thank you (and G=E9rard as well) for the guidance to the CPU. I have a 440MHz CPU installed, so this =5Fmight=5F be enough to make it faster= than a 100MBit interface. Honestly, I haven't thought much about CPU or similar limitations so I'm g= rateful for every additional information. 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Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/=3Fmc=3D021192 From paul@anastrophe.com Wed Apr 18 20:56:28 2007 From: paul@anastrophe.com (Paul Theodoropoulos) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:56:28 -0700 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Gigabit Ethernet for Ultra 10 In-Reply-To: <1549668749@web.de> References: <1549668749@web.de> Message-ID: <20070418195632.EDA7D93C8@tigger.net-kitchen.com> At 12:50 PM 4/18/2007, Thorsten Nitsch wrote: > > recommending at least 300mhz of CPU capacity available to support a > > single gbit adapter - over and above your other computational needs. > > since the ultra 10 is from that general era, it may be applicable. >Thank you (and G=E9rard as well) for the guidance to the CPU. >I have a 440MHz CPU installed, so this _might_=20 >be enough to make it faster than a 100MBit interface. >Honestly, I haven't thought much about CPU or=20 >similar limitations so I'm grateful for every additional information. happy to assist. of course, newer gbit adapters=20 may have some processing power on the card to=20 offload the work, so the caveat may be moot. Paul Theodoropoulos http://www.anastrophe.com From silvercreekvalley@yahoo.com Fri Apr 20 12:53:24 2007 From: silvercreekvalley@yahoo.com (silvercreekvalley) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] PS/2 Keyboards and Suns Message-ID: <787363.79032.qm@web56202.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Hi, I'm using a PS/2 keyboard with an Ultra 5 by using the Belkin sun<->PS/2 adapter unit. When I switch on the Ultra 5, the keyboard works fine with the boot prompt if necessary and I can boot OK. However with CDE for some reason the keyboard stops working (although the mouse is OK). If I unplug the sun keyboard lead and plug it back in, the Sun drops to the boot prompt, however if I type 'go' then the sun resumes and the keyboard works. The keyboard works ok with regular console incidently and also OpenLook - it just seems to be CDE. Any ideas. I'm using an older version of Solaris incidently - version 2.5. Cheers Ian. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From sastevens@earthlink.net Sat Apr 21 22:01:51 2007 From: sastevens@earthlink.net (Scott Stevens) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:01:51 -0400 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Free to good home: Large (complete?) set of Solaris 2.5 docs In-Reply-To: <787363.79032.qm@web56202.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <787363.79032.qm@web56202.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20070421170151.250d04d8.sastevens@earthlink.net> I have a large set of printed bound Solaris 2.5 documentation. It is probably a complete set, some of the volumes are still in shrinkwrap. When I received it, it had to come in two boxes and probably would be vastly expensive to ship by any other means than book rate. I haven't weighed it, but I believe it is two 50+ pound boxes. I would prefer for somebody to pick it up, rather than ship it. I live in a small town that is a half miles drive from Indianapolis, Indiana. As an incentive for someone to make a pickup I would very likely throw in some older Sun hardware to make your load complete (SparcStation 2/5/10 type stuff.) Would also throw in an Ultra 5 for $15. (see, I want this doc set to go to a Good Home, and am willing to make sure it does) I would rather not break the set up, and am going to wait a week for a 'pick it up' offer to arrive. Then, if nobody wants to do the pickup method, I will try to fairly do a 'first come, first serve' to someone and ship it USPS Book Rate. It would be far, far more expensive to ship outside the US than anybody but a very wealthy individual could afford. This doc set is really good stuff if you're a Solaris enthusiast. I just haven't used it enough to be the honored individual who owns it. From raub@ufl.edu Mon Apr 30 04:34:05 2007 From: raub@ufl.edu (Mauricio Tavares) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:34:05 -0400 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Solaris and HP Photosmart 7150 printer Message-ID: <463563AD.3080705@ufl.edu> Has anyone used this printer with a Solaris 10 box? I assume cups would be happy with it, but would Solaris be happy with a usb printer?