Date: Fri, 21 Nov 97 21:03:16 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #41 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Fri, 21 Nov 97 Volume 10 : Issue 41 Today's Topics: More Sparc2 memory stuff (V10 #40) More Sparc2 memory stuff... No Subject Performane comparisons of SS5 / SS10 SPARC IPC SPARC IPC. Sun 3/60 and keyboards +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:08:35 -0600 From: Matt Crawford Subject: More Sparc2 memory stuff (V10 #40) To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Before I go to the expense of tracking down Official Sun Memory for this > (is this actually available now?) I would just like to confirm that I > cannot put standard PC 30 pin SIMMS in there (with/without parity?) > instead. Anyone done this? I've moved such SIMMs between my sparcstation-1 and a 486 PC. Given the right speed specs I'm sure you can use PC SIMMs (WITH parity, and in groups of 4) in a SS-2. Matt - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 09:37:41 +1100 (EST) From: Craig Dewick Subject: More Sparc2 memory stuff... To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Before I go to the expense of tracking down Official Sun Memory for this > (is this actually available now?) I would just like to confirm that I > cannot put standard PC 30 pin SIMMS in there (with/without parity?) > instead. Anyone done this? You can definitely use normal 30-pin 4 meg *parity* SIMM's in a Sparc-2. Any speed of 80 ns or faster should work fine. Try to avoid the 3-chip full-parity SIMM's - they give problems in most of the older machines. > Also, if anyone out there has any details on the old Sparc2, could you > please forward it onto me - the only info I've really managed to find is > the (v. useful, admittedly) Sun Hardware FAQ by James W. Birdsall. What would you like to know? Regards, Craig. -- Craig Dewick. Send email to 'cdewick@lios.apana.org.au' Point a web browser at 'http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick/sun_shack.html' to access my archive of Sun information and links to other places. For info about Sun Ripened Kernels, go to 'http://www.zeta.org.au/~craig/srk' - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 21:23:47 -0400 From: BRANDON WILLIAM HUME Subject: No Subject To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > (is this actually available now?) I would just like to confirm that I > cannot put standard PC 30 pin SIMMS in there (with/without parity?) My Sun 4/75... Sparc 2... is currently filled to the brim with sixteen parity, 30 pin 4-meg SIMMs, purchased from a regular, run-of-the-mill computer retail shop. I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to do the same. The only difficulty I had was that 30-pin SIMMs are getting increasingly annoying to get hold of. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:42:24 -0100 From: wanderer Subject: Performane comparisons of SS5 / SS10 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, This may be a dumb question, but can somebody tell me what the performance comparison is between a SS5 with a 75Mhz processor and a SS10 with a SM41 / SM51 or SM61 processor is in terms of MIPS, SPECint's etc? I checked the various FAQ's but could not find any related info. Reason I'm asking is that I'm considering buying a SS10 to replace my trusted little IPX. Thanks, Edward wanderer@bos.nl - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:43:45 +0000 From: MJ Hughes Subject: SPARC IPC To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com My (got yesterday for a really knockdown price, of three hubcaps and a bottle opener) SPARCstation IPC looks very nice on my desk, with all its external storage packs, and 19" monitor. It doesn't work properly yet, but it looks nice... I am having several problems with it. 1) It keeps returning an error message, saying it cant access (the device) le0, it does this every 30 seconds or so. It reports this as being on Sbus slot 0, this being the system bus on an IPC, I think it was used as a network server, and I would imagine that se0 is the network connection. 2) it refuses to format any disks, saying that they are the wrong density, I have tried a couple of different disks, and none of them work. 3) the mouse seems to have died, it is a type four. If there are any common and easily fixable faults with this sort of mouse, please tell me, before I buy a new one. 4) how DO i get the simms out? OJH OJH@hughesm.force9.net - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 14:04:22 PST From: "J Hughes" Subject: SPARC IPC. To: suns-at-home-request@tigger.net-kitchen.com I just got a SPARC IPC system today, and am a *little lost*, because my previous experience only covers Linux on the PC ("StartX, StartX damn you!!") and the previous users had one of those wonderfully *diverse* set-ups... the SPARC IPC appears to have 30 pin sockets, and I have heard that the 386i, with the same sockets will happily take standard 9 chip true Parity RAM. does this hold for the IPC? Also, I was wondering how to set about doing a clean install from CD-ROM, of Solaris. Thank you for your time. OJH ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:37:27 -0600 (CST) From: "Mark 'Hex' Hershberger" Subject: Sun 3/60 and keyboards To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a 3/60 "on loan" pretty much permanantly from the school here. I am using it as an X-Terminal off of my Linux box. Right now, though, I'm stuck using the Type 3 keyboard. Is there anyway I can hook up the newer Type 4 keyboard (or a PC keyboard)? Thanks for your help. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************