Date: Wed, 18 Nov 98 13:03:46 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #32 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Wed, 18 Nov 98 Volume 11 : Issue 32 Today's Topics: Big Disks under SunOS 4.1.4 CDROM for SUN. Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #31 Wanted or trade: working 3/80 system +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:45:06 -0500 From: Jan Wolter Subject: Big Disks under SunOS 4.1.4 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com We've got an old Sun 4 that we run as a free shell / conferencing system (grex.org if you'd like an account). We are scratching our heads over putting more disk on it. Rumor says that you can't have partitions bigger than 2Gig under SunOS 4.1.4, which seems sensible. But some of our gang aren't convinced that you can put disks bigger than 2Gig on the thing, even if you dice them up into 2Gig parititions. I don't want to use our hard-begged money to buy any more 2 Gig disks if I can help it though. The things aren't very cost effective and are getting hard to find. Can anyone reassure us that bigger disks will work? Thanks Jan Wolter - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:58:36 +0100 From: "John Cushnie" Subject: CDROM for SUN. To: Hi, If you need a CDRom for your Sun, don't hold out too much hope for a resonable priced second hand one. I looked for ages - DEC and APPLE OEM ones work as well as the SUN ones I'm told. Eventually I bought a new (with 2year warranty) Plextor 32x one. They work out at approx. 90 UKP, probably cheaper now. Or see if there are any where you work that you could borrow. Plextor are recommended time and time again, since they are fully configured and work everywhere - PCs, SUN, SGI, Linux, UNIX, OpenVMS etc. That's my 2 pence. Regarding the networking, just hook them together over ethernet, set up the addresses in the same IP subnet and then you should be able to get the two of them talking with ping, nfs, telnet, ftp, finger, etc. Start with the easy ones first and progress. I would suggest ping and telnet first. They are both industry strength platforms and as long as the OS's are installed and not botched then it should all work. If the Next box has a CD then if you get them both up on the net you should be able to do an nfs/ip load on the SUN from the Next CDrom. Checkout the how-to's on the WWW. Good luck and all the best. ______________________________________________________________ Regards John Cushnie Cumbria UK Email: cushnie@csi.com - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:05:56 -0800 From: "James W. Birdsall" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #31 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com From: Blake Sobiloff >Subject: ecc errors on mem0 > >I have a 4/260 with 32 MB of RAM running Solaris 2.4 (patched to >101945-59). I can let it sit and not do much and it seems happy doing >that (144 days of uptime). However, if I actually try and use it much >(compiling perl5, for example) it'll eventually generate a soft ecc >error on mem0. This leads to a BAD TRAP warning [...] That's odd, because a soft ecc error means that the memory error has been corrected. Of course, if the ecc circuitry is incorrectly signalling a successful correction, that might cause the observed symptoms. >I assume that I've got some flakey memory on the mainboard (right?). Flaky memory, yes. On the mainboard, no. There is no system memory on the CPU board. It is all located on other boards, which are easily identified by having five large LEDs on the back. >so I'm trying to >figure out what my options are. I don't want to spend too much money on >this system. Is there someone who will test the mainboard and replace >the faulty RAM for cheap? If you can find the memory boards for this system, they're dirt cheap. The "mem0" means that the problem is being caused (as far as the system can tell) by the first memory board, the one that is jumpered for 0 in the jumper block on the back near the LEDs. If you have more than one memory board, then you can probably get around the problem by removing mem0. Note that if you do so, you'll have to rejumper the boards. Each board should be jumpered for only one number, and the numbers must be contiguous starting from 0, although it doesn't matter what number is in what slot of the chassis. You'll also need to be sure that the terminating resistor pack is in the rightmost memory board and that no other memory board has a terminator pack. Also, memory boards must be installed in slots 2 through 6 (slot 1 is where the CPU should be). --James Birdsall - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 20:57:12 -0500 From: "Mike Pepe" Subject: Wanted or trade: working 3/80 system To: Hi. I'm looking for a working 3/80. My trusty old beast finally ran its last bus cycle. I have some Sparc 1+ parts (case/board) I would trade for a working 3/80 if interested. If not I would be interested in buying one. Thanks! d8b d8b 98P d8b M I K E P E P E 98P.ooo.98P Maintainer of CLUB BEAST, LAMUNE COMPLEAT, and other junk. d88888b "Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas" 8888888 E-mail: lamune@cybercomm.net | ICQ# 11768763 `9888P' WWW: http://www.cybercomm.net/~lamune/ - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************