Date: Sun, 10 Aug 97 13:21:09 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #29 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 10 Aug 97 Volume 10 : Issue 29 Today's Topics: Anybody interested? New Sun archive/FAQ web site Pre-Owned Weitek PowerUP Chips Sun 3/80 NVRAM Sun cables, etc. Suns-at-Home Sun VME-bus boards and testing +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:58:19 -0400 From: earl@baugh.org (Earl Baugh) Subject: Anybody interested? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com While I know it's not the practice to advertise on this list, I do have some things that I don't need that perhaps someone out there would be interested in. 1) I have a copy of Solaris 2.5 for X86 (Server version...the whole shebang of stuff...) I simply have another copy of Solaris 2.5.1 for X.86 that I use, so I don't need this as well. The differences I've found between 2.5 and 2.5.1 for x86 are incredibly minor, and you can find the set of patches on the Sun site to be able to use this with darn near any hardware configuration. 2) I have two cart tapes for the Sun 386i. They worked last time I used the (the machine as since been traded in...) A) Application Sun OS 4.0.1 B) Developer's Toolkit for 4.0.1 C) Hardware diagnostics (floppy) D) Lockd Fix diskette If you're interested, drop me a line. Thanks. Earl D. Baugh Jr. Internet : earl@baugh.org - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 14:47:58 -0500 From: Bill Bradford Subject: New Sun archive/FAQ web site To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I've recently put up http://www.sunhelp.com - a compendum of all the FAQs, tips, tricks, and stuff I've learned and things that were useful during my experience with Sun equipment over the past three years. I'm also planning a BIG major section on the Sun 386i soon, as I'm getting one of these machines (and plenty of spare parts) in about two weeks. Check it out, let me know if you like it, feel free to mail suggestions. Thanks to Mr. McKay for letting me mirror the SAH Digest! BTW, if you have anything 386i related for sale, let me know, I'm interested. -- Bill Bradford * mrbill@texas.net * Texas Networking, Inc., Austin, TX Senior Systems Engineer, Sun Certified Systems & Network Admin, BOFH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's important to remember that the creatures of the night aren't simply the people of the day staying up late because they think that makes them cool and interesting. It takes a lot more than heavy makeup and a pale complexion to cross the divide." - Terry Pratchett, _Soul Music_ - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 08:39:38 -0400 From: Thomas Parrish Subject: Pre-Owned Weitek PowerUP Chips To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have recently upgraded all my SPARC2s to Ultras or SPARC 5s. These SPARC2s all were Weitek upgraded. The chips or less that 5 months OLD and are working fine. If any one is interested I amd asking $250.00 dollars each. About 1/2 the cost of a new chip. TIP - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 07:39:06 -0700 From: bob@reef.cs.wwu.edu (bob hayes) Subject: Sun 3/80 NVRAM To: bbrush@ace.acomp.usf.edu Brian, I did the configuration of the nvram (90% of it anyway) on a sparc1, then put it into the 3/80. The latest nvram.faq had a specific section detailing the 3/80 pagemapping so that you could write the parts that the monitor "q" command will not update. The sparc1 will boot without an nvram, and then you hot-socket the new one into place, write what you need and shutdown and remove into the 3/80 -- not a lot of help if you only have one machine, I know. If you can't find the newest NVram faq, I can get the details ( they are not here at work, right now) for you. Last NVram ( and other Sun-info stuff) that Henderson had were on squirrel ( http://www.rahul.net/squirrel , from the bookmark, also www.squirrel.com). Since the last post, I have gotten the scsi bus to so some things, and it may in fact be working OK. I can load from tape and disk, but get access errors, bus errors, etc from any loaded programs. I can read the ascii in memory at the 0x4000 load point, alll chars seem to be there, and bit 7 *does* get set on program loads, so I suspect mmu or other buffer problems that happen when memory maping takes place. (the tapes can be loaded onto a 3/160 and execute OK, so I think that they are fine). Anyone have any good diagnostics or pointers to the operation of the mmu on the 3/80 -- page mapping tests I might be able to manually perform, etc. It seems like there was a diagnostic program on early tapes of the 68K series, I can't recall for sure. Bob Hayes < bob@cs.wwu.edu > Western Washington University Computer Science Dept., Bond Hall 302 Mail Stop 9062 Bellingham, Washington 98225 Obbligato Disclaimer: Tell `em Uncle Bob sez so! - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 23:41:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Frisch Subject: Sun cables, etc. To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com (I hope this isn't considered commercial spam. I just want to help out fellow "Suns-at-Home" users.) [ This is OK by me. I frown upon lengthy ads, but I'm happy to pass along ] [ pointers to web sites, etc. --ddm ] I just wanted to make the readers of the Suns-at-Home list aware of the Sun cabling and accessories I sell. My web site is: http://saturn.tlug.org/sunstuff/ I sell Sun cabling for the entire line up from the oldest Sun 3 to the newest Ultras. Prices are very competitive compared to other vendors which cater primarily to corporate Sun users. I am not a bigwig Sun dealer, I simply have suppliers carrying these sometimes hard to get cables at a decent price. Mike. ====================================================================== Mike Frisch Email: mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch Newmarket, Ontario, Canada - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Aug 97 20:35:06 -0500 From: jmz@onyx.bcl.net Subject: Suns-at-Home To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I am relocating and would appreciate the person who contacted me regarding the SSn 1+ chassis I have gathering dust getting back to me on them. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 14:37:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. D. Davis" Subject: Sun VME-bus boards and testing To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Greetings, Recently, I've obtained a few (approximately 100) Sun VMEbus boards, mostly for Sun 3 workstations. I've also obtained a few 6-slot chasis and a few 3/60s (no keyboards, no mice, no monitore, no RAM), as well as a couple of 3/50 boards w/Sunflower memory boards attached. In this bunch of boards are CPUs, some memory (not much), some CG3 and CG5 graphics boards, SCSI and SMD/tape controllers, a couple of graphics accellerators and a few sort of "empty" boards (the empty frame with a VME <-> ? (I forget)) converters, etc. I think that there may be a couple of Sun-2 SCSI boards as well. In addition to Ethernet boards, there are a couple of "Whisper-net" boards. Does anyone know anything about these? There also an Ungermann-Bass cable modem and a couple of 16-port boards. What I'd like to do is test these boards, sell (I'm not interested in making a profit, but would like to break even) or trade some (most - they talke up too much space and attract spiders!) of them and keep some of them. However, I'm not exactly sure at this point what to charge for them or how to go about safely testing them, as I don't know if any contain direct shorts, etc. Most appear to be in good physical condition (except for a little rust on the DB-xx connectors), but a few have a bit more rust and a few bent pins, etc. The six-slot chasis that I was going to test them in is labeled as a 3/150. My concern is frying either the PSU or, worse yet, the backplane if any of these boards contain bad shorts. I've also got to find an appropriate color monitor to use to test these boards. Any suggestions? I also obtained a few sun Sparc CPUs (4/330, for example) that I'd like to use with these boards in a 3/150 chasis; can I use a Sun-3 CG3 or CG5 board and a graphics accelerator with these? Can I do all of the testing using the same SunOS 4.1.1 tape that I loaded the OS onto my 3/60 with for any Sun-3 or Sun-4 system? It appears that I may have bit off more than I can chew when I agreed to purchase the lot of these boards... :-) -- R.D. Davis http://www.access.digex.net/~rdd rdd@access.digex.net Computer preservationist. Many types of ...!uunet!mystica!rdd unwanted older computer systems disassembled, Office telephone: 1-410-744-4900 removed for free (locally) and preserved. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************