Date: Sat, 11 Apr 98 16:56:57 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #14 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 11 Apr 98 Volume 11 : Issue 14 Today's Topics: *NIX and Hard Drives CD-ROM Driver FS: SS20 & SS5 Openwin via telnet problem loading OS Sparc Linux, Netalink, Samba, etc. Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #13 X servers, etc. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com | | Requests: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 98 07:57:00 PST From: Robert Blackshaw Subject: *NIX and Hard Drives To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com After recently attempting to format a Maxtor XT8760E on my SUN 3/60 I am somewhat puzzled by the way hard drives are handled. Physically this drive is hard sectored at 54 sectors per track and 1632 cylinders. The format.dat FAQ rates it at 1616 ncyl, 6 acyl, and 50 sectors. The previous owner had formatted it at 1624 ncyl, 2 acyl, and 51 sectors. Why? Also the only documentation I can find on the Emulex MD-21 ESDI to SCSI controller suggests 52 sectors and I notice that this same document suggests 36 sectors for my Micropolis 1558 and format does it at 35 sectors. Anyone with information on jumper settings for the MD-21, I would appreciate it if you could e-mail this to me. Bob ------------------------------------- Name: Robert Blackshaw E-mail: blckshaw@clark.net Date: 04/03/98 Time: 07:57:00 RB & Associates ---------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 18:56:09 +1000 (EST) From: Craig Dewick Subject: CD-ROM Driver To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:55:31 -0500 > From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <76701.103@compuserve.com> > Subject: CD-ROM Driver > > Folks- > > OK, I have a weird one for you.... > > I've just re-installed Solaris 2.5.1 on my IPX, from CD-ROM. No problems > installing it, but I can't actually _mount_ a CD-ROM and read it! The log > file claims there's no driver. You might want to try rebooting with the -r argument to force the kernel to scan for available devices and create appropriate device files for them in '/devices'. To watch the progress, type 'boot -rv' from the 'ok' monitor prompt. The 'v' will force it into verbose mode as it boots, printing all the info about devices, etc. as the kernel loads and starts up. 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: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 13:17:15 -0600 From: The Big CaT Subject: FS: SS20 & SS5 To: "Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com" These systems are approx. 2 years old and were used lightly in a QA setup for the company I worked for. I got them when the company folded a couple of months ago. Both were on SUN maint. contracts and are in excellent condition. I'm looking for reasonable offers. Buyer pays shipping outside of Austin TX USA. > > > > > SparcStation SS20: (very scalable desktop server/workstation) 50MHZ SuperSparc CPU w/1MB internal cache 32MB RAM Turbo GX graphics card 1.2GBInt. HD T5 Kbd Mouse and Pad SUN 20" color monitor (Trinitron) digital controls Solaris 2.5 OS $2750/OBO > > > > > SparcStation SS5: 85MHZ MicroSparc II CPU 64MB RAM Turbo GX graphics card 1.2 GB Int. HD T5 Kbd. Mouse and Pad SUN 20" color monitor (Trinitron) Digital controls Solaris 2.5 OS $2300/OBO - ------------------------------ Date: 3 Apr 1998 07:20:10 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Openwin via telnet To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >However, if I telnet in using the X-Window shareware package XWin32 (for >Win95), I get "access denied" types of error messages. What are you doing? Trying to run openwin or trying to use X programs with your DISPLAY setto the sddress of your X server? If the former, do the latter. If the latter, go into your X server's configuration and tell it to accept connections from the IPX. -- This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 05:00:37 PDT From: "Steven Ashbrook" Subject: problem loading OS To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a 4/360 in a 4/110 case. It had solaris 2.4 min. install running on three 1xx meg drives. I replaced the drives with 0ne 850 meg, one 480 meg, and one 250 meg drives then borrowed a sun cdrom. I have had no luck getting it to reload, the following is what ive tried and the error i get. from the > promt b sr(0,30,1) finds cd reads it displays the os banner then i get the tumbling cursor after a few min. itgives the following: error sensekey=0 error=0 cannot load driver for can't load root filesystem abort >some memory address > I have checked all my connections and have checked my scsi id's which i think are correct. also, i cant seem to do a probe-scsi when i do it gives me a list of memory addresses is there a way on this machine to get a list of installed scsi dev's any help will be greatly appreciated Steve mailto:sash357@hotmail.com - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 10:07:45 +0200 From: John Cushnie Subject: Sparc Linux, Netalink, Samba, etc. To: "'Suns-at-Home Mailing List'" Hi Folks, I'm new to this Mailing list but please bear with me. I have a SparcStation 2 at home with disks and a tape drive, but no monitor. I also have an old Toshiba SCSI CDROM that I hope to do the Sun 512k mod on when I get time. At the moment I can connect to the Sun via a Serial terminal emulation on my PC, and I can get the Sparcstation to power up and boot from the Solaris system on one of the disks. Looking at the power up diagnostics it looks like the NVRAM chip has died, ie no ethernet hardware address.... This station was a 'gift' from the company I work at, ie it was in the trash ! So once I have the new NVRAM chip (vendors, via the FAQ) and done the Toshiba hardware mod (SUN CDROM FAQ) I will be ready to install RedHat SPARC Linux on the beast. I have the RedHat 4.2 Powertools CDs. My aim is to get the Sun up and running Linux with all the usual goodies - Compilers, Linkers, X, EMACS, TK/TCL, Perl, etc. I have already done most of this on an old 486 laptop with success. Once I have done that I want to set up the following : - Netatalk - as a bridge between Linux and Macintosh systems - Samba - as a bridge between Linux and Windoz systems I'm hoping that with Linux in the middle I should be able to go from Windoz to Mac for printing on both sides and file sharing etc. I also have a DEC VAX VMS system, with tcp/ip running, on my Network at home and hopefully this can also integrate into this environment also for file sharing and printer serving. My problem is I have a Apple Laserprinter, a Windoz bubblejet printer and a VMS dot-matrix printer. It would be nice to be able to print to the laser from the Windoz and the VMS systems, etc.... Anyone already done any of this ? If so how did you get on ? Also I have a SCSI ZIP drive, and I also hope to get this up and running on the Sun. Wish me luck. Once I have a running system - probably in a few months, since I'm pretty over-worked at the moment - I will write up my experiences for the mailing list. >From what I have seen so far this mailing list is more aimed at what I require than all the developer stuff in the SunSparc lists. I'm not really interested in the mechanisms behind getting Linux to run on the Sun platform. That is a little low level for me at this moment. Just an observation. Thanks. Regards ______________________________________________________________ John Cushnie jcushnie@ccs-munich.de - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 23:39:36 -0500 From: Al Potter Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #13 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > However, if I telnet in using the X-Window shareware package XWin32 (for > Win95), I get "access denied" types of error messages. > > I assume that I have some setting up to do on the IPX to enable X-type > telnet logins, but I cannot find any "cookbook" reference on how to do it. Umm, this is a little complicated, but I'm guessing that the X-server (your PC) is denying permission to display to the client (the "telnet" you mention). Best advice is to get a copy of the X sysadmin guide, which is vol 8 in the series from OREILLY. READ this, and you will learn gobs about X, and networking. It's really one of the best volumes out there for a sysadmin. AL -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Al Potter Network Security Analyst | | International Computer Security Association | | #include apotter @ planetcable.net | | #include Remove the spaces to reply | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 17:07:40 -0500 From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <76701.103@compuserve.com> Subject: X servers, etc. To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com Folks- Thanks to some excellent and patient help from Peter da Silva and Al Potter, I've got the X thing pretty much running. The problems turned out to be on the PC end, so I probably should have posted my plea to the "Sometimes-fscking-PCs-make-me-spit" list instead of the "Suns-are-fun" list. The X server tool I'm using on the PC, a shareware thing called XWin32, seems to work OK, but, in the true shareware tradition, the doco sucks. Well, if it had any doco, I'm sure it would suck; as it is, it has only some rather vague help files, and a set of "as-shipped" defaults that could charitably be called perverted. I mean, defaulting to a zero-by-zero pixel screen size is not very useful, nor is defaulting to a no-password logon. Not to mention that in the absence of a setup program that walks you through the possible settings, there's not much reason to suspect that either of those things would be the default. However, it's now mostly working, and, as usual, the S@H group has saved me a lot of trouble. Thanks. -Shel - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************