Date: Sun, 24 Jan 99 14:10:04 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #3 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 24 Jan 99 Volume 12 : Issue 3 Today's Topics: "chattering" ELC 3/60 zaphoding Alternate internal drives for SS-1 ? network question Problems installing 2.6 Solaris 2.6 and bash problems? Solaris2.6 run on Sparc2 with Weitek Power Up Chip ? Sun hardware needing new home +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 17 Jan 1999 15:11:44 -0600 From: "Frank Mango" Subject: "chattering" ELC To: "Suns-At-Home" I'm having a hardware problem with my ELC. The problem started a few months ago, and was intermittent at that time. It has been getting progressively more frequent, and now occurs almost every time I power up the system. As soon as the power switch is turned on, the keyboard LEDs and the main power LED begin flashing quickly. The keyboard makes a chattering sound, while a chirping sound comes from somewhere inside the monitor chassis. All of this begins before the unit is able to perform a memory test, much less try to boot. It continues until power is switched off. Once in a while, the system will start up normally instead, and proceed to boot and run. A couple of times, reseating the motherboard seemed to clear up the problem for a while. Or maybe it was just a coincidence. Any ideas? Frank Mango fmango@ix.netcom.com - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:02:43 -0800 (PST) From: Anthony Talltree Subject: 3/60 zaphoding To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >Problem: Moving the mouse from cgfour monitor to bwtwo monitor causes >cgfour X display to disappear, exposing the boot output. ... > The fundamental problem is that some cgfours have an overlay plane which >can be used as another bwtwo device. I think what you're describing is a 3/60 board that started off just having a bw2. 3/60's that were ordered with cg4's didn't have the bw2 logic on the motherboard, so the cg4's bw2 configures as bwtwo0. When a cg4 is added to a a motherboard with a bw2, the cg4's bw2 configures as bwtwo1 and the onboard as bwtwo0, IIRC. Which OS and X server are you running? I seem to recall that under SunOS 4, I just compiled special kernels for such machines with the line(s) for the onboard bw2 commented out so that the cg4's was configured as bwtwo0. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:45:18 -0600 From: Matt Crawford Subject: Alternate internal drives for SS-1 ? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com My SPARCstation 1 will be 10 years old come the 30th. (One owner, high mileage.) Both of the internal Quantum 105 MB drives are developing the "stiction" problem that old-timers may remember. (Many of those drives had that problem when new. Mine didn't until now.) Luckily, my somewhat more recent external disk has room and I squoze everything over there in advance of ultimate failure. But I'm wondering ... When the 1+ and 2 came out, they had bigger internal drives which allegedly couldn't be put into the 1 because of power and/or cooling requirements. Science has marched a long way forward since then. Does anyone know whether some current, largish SCSI disk can go into the internal SS-1 bays and work? ______________________________________________________________________ Matt Crawford matt@severian.batavia.il.us Mens sana in campari soda - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:22:16 -0800 From: "Peter J. Harbeson" Subject: network question To: Hi all, I have a simple 10Base2 Ethernet network in my home office, using a cheap 5-port hub. I'd like to extend the network to another room, and there's already some coax cable (cable-TV stuff) that could be used for the network, since it's not used for TV. However, can anyone tell me: How would I interface my 10Base2 hub to a 10BaseT connection? (I'd rather keep the existing 10Base2 than switch everything because I have 3 Intel boxes with only RJ-type connections.) TV cable has 75-ohm resistance, while thinnet cable is rated at 50 ohms. Can I use it anyway over a distance of about 3 meters? Thanks! --- Peter J. Harbeson Technical Writing, Instructional Design, Help System Engineering 408-779-4886 voice 408-782-9525 fax harbeson@garlic.com - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 99 14:26:43 -0800 From: "Paul Khoury" Subject: Problems installing 2.6 To: "Sunhelp List" , I'm trying to install Solaris 2.6 5/98 hardware on my SPARCbook 3GX. Everything goes okay until it gets to where it says: Starting OpenWIndows... waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . Then I get a trap (after it tries to initialize the framebuffer), and tries to sync the file system, where it constantly displays panid: Data fault syncing file systems... 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 Then it displays something else, and reboots. I'm watching it do this right now. I really can't afford a new machine, but I'd really like to get this one running. Is there a workaround, or has anyone experianced a similiar problem? -- Paul Khoury | | Sent from my K5-200 http://warped.cswnet.com/~pkhoury/index.html Running OS/2 3/4, Win NT 4.0, Sun Solaris 2.3/2.4 and Newton OS 2.0 ICQ#22543041 AIM - pkhoury12 - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:12:29 -0800 From: Jan Steinman Subject: Solaris 2.6 and bash problems? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I recently installed 2.6 and the standard desktop, abandoning IXI's Motif to ease maintenance. Now I cannot use bash as my default shell. When I log in, the CDE 1.2 splash comes up, then the screen blanks with the hourglass, then I'm back at the login prompt. Sound familiar? So I keep the shell as sh, log in, open a terminal window, and start bash in it. Everything seems to work for a while, but at some point, I come back to a blank screen, and nothing I do can get a screen back, including logging in remotely and killing the login shell. When this happens, I log in remotely and do a ps, and there appear to be hundreds of alternating /usr/dt/bin/dtscreen and /usr/dt/bin/dtexec processes none associated with a device ("?" where it usually says "pts/n"). When I started killing them, new ones appear. So I re-boot. Any clues appreciated. I had gotten to where I could fix Motif problems, but CDE is still alien to me! : Jan Steinman : 19280 Rydman Court, West Linn, OR 97068-1331 USA : +1.503.635.3229 - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:44:35 -0500 (EST) From: Ronald Florence Subject: Solaris2.6 run on Sparc2 with Weitek Power Up Chip ? To: Luc Martin Luc Martin writes: Does anyone has experience with Solaris 2.6 and Power Up ? My son has an IPX with a Weitek Power-UP, 64mb, running Solaris-2.6, in his room at Yale. It is reliable, but slow. We had the same experience with a Sparc-2/Power-UP, 64mb here. -- Ronald Florence Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT ron@mlfarm.com http://www.connix.com/~mlfarm - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 21:38:39 PST From: "Nanker Phelge" Subject: Sun hardware needing new home To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Command Computer Surplus in Wichita,KS has a pretty huge pile of SPARClassics and LXs they "don't know what to do with".Their phone is 316-722-6596. Be advised we are not dealing with the proverbial rocket scientist here...They also have a s***load of assorted fixed freq monitors for non-Suns. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************