Date: Sat, 9 Jul 88 11:52:50 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@mckay.UUCP Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V1 #18 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 9 Jul 88 Volume 1 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: 2/120 2/120 SCSI serial port hang up? Surge protectors uucp +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @ea.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!mckay!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 12:09:30 PDT From: pur-ee!sun.com!kevin (Kevin Sheehan (Consulting Poster Child)) Subject: 2/120 To: suns-at-home@ea.ecn.purdue.edu I wouldn't recommend buying a 2/120 unless it was dirt cheap either. I have one of the first ten we ever made at home, and I got it dirt cheap, and it's just fine for the work I do there. You do have to watch the dirt buildup, but they are a great way to warm the room during winter (if you can't find other ways :-) and it runs X, so I can use it for all kinds of things besides the worlds largest intelligent terminal. I will say that there were some 120's that may not be the best thing Sun ever did, but mine hasn't had a problem since the day we built it, either as a (heavily abused) work machine, or at home. When someone write the book about Sun, the 2/120 will be a couple of chapters at least, believe me. I wouldn't even think of running 4.0 on a 2/120 - I'm staying with 3.5, just like Celeste. In my case I have one of the prototype skins, so getting to the disk (a 42MB!!) and tape almost involves getting out the torch :-) l & h, kev Kevin Sheehan Sun Microsystems 2475 Garcia MV CA 94043 kevin@sun.com or ...!sun!kevin The opinions here are mine, just mine... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 88 11:51:42 EST From: dwight (Dwight D. McKay) Subject: 2/120 SCSI serial port hang up? To: sah On my personal Sun 2/120, a 2/120 we have at work and some of my co-worker's 2/120's we've experienced the following: - Start output on one of the SCSI board serial ports (ttys0, etc). - Output runs for a while and then hangs. This is not always fatal as you can sometimes un-wedge the port by sending it input (a series of ^Q's on the terminal attached to the port, for example). The ports, also seem to hangup in pairs. (ie: ttys0 & ttys1, ttys2 & ttys3) This happens with both SunOS 3.0 & SunOS 3.5. Is this common problem? Is there a fix for it? --Dwight D. McKay, Moderator of Suns-at-Home ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 17:22:41 EST From: pur-ee!arthur.cs.purdue.edu!integin!svb (Stephan Bechtolsheim) Subject: Surge protectors To: suns-at-home@ea.ecn.purdue.edu Any qualified opinions: are they recommended?! Do they REALLY protect your equipment when there is a need?! Stephan v. Bechtolsheim, integin!svb@arthur.cs.purdue.edu, (317) 463 0162 2550 Yeager Rd, #3-11 W Lafayette, IN 47906 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 16:26:45 EST From: pur-ee!arthur.cs.purdue.edu!integin!svb (Stephan Bechtolsheim) Subject: uucp To: suns-at-home@ea.ecn.purdue.edu I had difficulties installing uucp till I found that the ownership of some directories was wrong (root instead of uucp). You may want to watch out for that. Sorry for not being more specific (I didn't take any notes). Stephan v. Bechtolsheim, integin!svb@arthur.cs.purdue.edu, (317) 463 0162 2550 Yeager Rd, #3-11 W Lafayette, IN 47906 ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************