Date: Wed, 24 Jun 98 21:02:34 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #21 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Wed, 24 Jun 98 Volume 11 : Issue 21 Today's Topics: boards and not racks Help with SPARC II MD 21 with two disks. Problems getting Sun IPX to use new external SCSI disk Roadrunner OS installation SunOS 4.1.4 ppp / ipmasq functionality Sun speakerbox / sparc5 connectors Suspend not working X-Win shareware fr Win95 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:45:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Francesco Messineo Subject: boards and not racks To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com Hi sunlovers :-) Hi recently got some sun (and soulbourne) boards and I'd like to revive them. Unfortunately I don't have rack nor cases for them so I thought I could first try to fix/run them without a case and then find one if they turn out to be working well. Here're the part numbers: 500-1316-xxxx which should be sun 4/330 cpu board (maybe an early version because is 500 and not 501); my question is: can I run it on a 3/60 case? 501-1532-xxxx should be a vme cg6 framebuffer, I assume I can mount it on the 4/330, right? It appears that there's a missing chip on it, there's an empty plcc84 socket just near the 13W3 connector, should it contain a chip (imo most likely) or not? The soolbourne one has the serial number FP00081M0 serial number, can anyone tell me what's this monster? Can I just run it by connecting a power source to what it appears as a power supply connector? Any info on the pinouts of that connector? Thanks in advance. Francesco Messineo - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 19:16:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Yong S. Yi" Subject: Help with SPARC II To: Suns-at-Home-List@net-kitchen.com DBell@mobile.bam.com wrote: [ SNIP ] :3. Go with BSD - I really, really like OpenBSD, and it performs better :than SunOS on my sparc2 (which dual boots OpenBSD/Solaris 2.5.1). The :only negative I can think of is the lack of support for commercial :software. I know it's possible to run SunOS & Solaris binaries, but it's :a bit involved to set up, so I've never bothered. The OpenBSD team is :very active as far as bug/security fixes go, and the ports collection :makes adding software pretty easy. The install is also really easy (a :little easier, in my opinion, than redhat's). I agree, being an (Open)BSD fan. As far as the BSD's go, you have an option: OpenBSD or NetBSD. As Daniel Bell mentioned, there is a lack of commercial software, but there's the binary emulation (which is a bit sketchy), and the ports collection (which is very nice). And oh, knowing your disk geometry helps, too, in OpenBSD installation. [ SNIP ] :As far a virtual consoles, I don't know whether or not linux for sparc :supports this, but it's probably the most like candidate if you want that :functionality. Anyone know for sure? I hope this helps. Here's *my* $0.02 on this. I've never used (RedHat) Linux on SPARC, so I would not know about Linux/SPARC and virtual consoles, but from using SunOS and Solaris, I use a nice freeware (GNU) program called 'screen' that may come to use. And it also has some extra features that you may enjoy, as well. This can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/screen-3.7.4.tar.gz Or a modification of the above program, with ANSI color support: ftp://ftp.bitchx.com/pub/BitchX/misc/screen-3.7.4+ansi.tar.gz I hope this info comes of use. Enjoy! - Yong -- Yong S. Yi | finger ysyi@tick.sdsc.org for PGP key "Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school. -- George Ade - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:39:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: frank@sun01.ccii.unipi.it Subject: MD 21 with two disks. To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com I realized lately that MD 21/S2 ESDI to SCSI bridge (that everybody here should know quite well) can't handle two disks with different geometry. I tried several times to connect two ESDI disks with different geometry and always the second one (which is mapped on LUN 1) gives a lot of soft errors when accessed by the host (a Sun 3/60). It made me always wonder why the same disk, when connected alone, was working just fine. Since I had already three MD 21/S2 running with two disks each (Maxtor XT8760E, Micropolis 1558) I couldn't believe it was MD-21's fault. One day I tried with combinations of four disks: 1558, XT4380E, IBM 0671 and Fujitsu M2261E. Only Micropolis 1558-15 and Maxtor XT4380E can work together on the same MD-21 and (guess why!) they have the same geometry. So I wonder if that was a well known thing I always missed or if I'm missing some configuration tips... or whatever. Francesco Messineo frank@ing.unipi.it PGP public key: http://sirius.ccii.unipi.it/~frank/public.asc KeyID 1024/2937E1A5 Key fingerprint = 5B 41 DC 7C 06 90 29 CA 39 05 59 F5 B3 CC 9A 9D - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 20:36:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve McCarthy Subject: Problems getting Sun IPX to use new external SCSI disk To: Dwight McKay > I have been advised to check the SCSI power fuse on the IPX's motherboard but > I can't find anything like a fuse. Does anyone know: > > - Where about the fuse is? According to the manual I have, the "SCSI Fuse or PTC" is located in the bottom half at the front panel. From front to back it is between the Speaker connector and SIMM Slot 0. From side to side, it is between the Diskette drive data cable and the Hard drive data cable. Hope this helps, -- Steve McCarthy Current wind and temp at my house sjm@halcyon.com www.halcyon.com/sjm/wx/latest.shtml www.halcyon.com/sjm - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:35:46 +0000 From: "David Cantrell" Subject: Roadrunner OS installation To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Does anyone out there in SAH-land have experience of a Sun 386i/250 (aka Roadrunner)? I bought one recently, third-hand without disks or manuals, and the 300Mb disk is, frankly, full of crap. So rather than weed through it by hand, I'm trying to reinstall the OS, using the disk images which I found at ftp://sun386i.mono.org. The diagnostic disk, somewhat bizarrely, reports an error in the CPU (!) but everything else checks out OK. When I booted off the app-01 installation disk, it muttered to itself for a few seconds, and then asked for the second disk. I put that in, it said it was initialising the RAM-disk. I then went and watched the football ;-) When I got back to the machine 2 hours later, it was _still_ initialising the RAM-disk. The floppy drive light was flashing occasionally, but nothing else was happening. Is this normal? Does it really take _hours_ to read this disk? Any wisdom would be appreciated ;-) -- David Cantrell, Senior Developer, Wirestation http://www.wirestation.co.uk - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:34:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Bobby Subject: SunOS 4.1.4 ppp / ipmasq functionality To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com So far the Sparc 2 is doing great, I have loaded SunOS and everything seems to be working fine. I have gcc, bash, less compiled and working. I am not finding many SunOS 4.x binaries (found acrobat reader, Netscape) on the net and am thinking maybe I should put at least the gcc binaries out on my website, to help others. I am considering using the sparc to gateway the homenet to the internet via dial ppp. Presently I am using Linux/intel and ipmasq to hide my private ip addresses behind the firewall. Is there something (other than a comercial firewall) that will do that for SunOS, or is this another reason to move to Sparc/Linux? I will soon have a caddy & connector set to go with my extra 425mb drive so that I will be able to boot either Linux or SunOS. Switching back and forth will not be pretty, but it should work until I find out which OS I like better. -- Bobby [ Take a look at ipfilter. It works well here. ] [ http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ --ddm ] - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:19:04 +0000 From: wanderer Subject: Sun speakerbox / sparc5 connectors To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com I got a speakerbox, but have a sparc5, which does not has the proper connector. Is it possible to use the speakerbox in a way whereby the volumecontrol at the top can be used, and to use only those wires from the cable to connect directly to the microphone and speaker output from the machine? Also, at the back of a sparc5, there a 2 small miniature connectors, where are they used for? (I do not have any user guides). Thanks, Ed - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 09:01:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Massimo Brogioni Subject: Suspend not working To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com I have a SS5 at home with Solaris 2.6 installed. Until some days ago suspend worked flawlessy, but now the system says: "Saving system state....." writing in white over the black screen and then nothing. I have to powerdown/powerup the system to work again. If while the system says so I try to STOP-A ancd syng the system panicked. Anybody know what is happening ? Ciao MB-) =============================================================================== "So you think you could tell heaven from hell, blue skies from pain..." Cybermarket SysAdmin - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:19:25 -0400 From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <76701.103@compuserve.com> Subject: X-Win shareware fr Win95 To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 21:48:34 -0500, "Brian Scott" said: >Does anyone know of a shareware or freeware program that will allow me to >admin my Solaris 2.5.1 machine from a Win95 machine? I use "X-Win32" which I got from one of the big on-line file repositories, probably www.winfile.com. It's shareware, but works OK. Setup is a bit opaque, however. For one thing, it defaults to a 0-by-0 pixel window, which could be charitably described as "useless." Once you get that, and the startup scripts on the Solaris box, straightened out, it's fine. -Shel - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************