Date: Sat, 11 Sep 99 21:30:25 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #25 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 11 Sep 99 Volume 12 : Issue 25 Today's Topics: 4/110 no longer boots FS: thinnet transceivers & adapter cables Hello... anyone have any spare 60mb tape drives? How to setup networing in Solaris 2.7 Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #24 (2 msgs) +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 5 Sep 1999 18:30:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. D. Davis" Subject: 4/110 no longer boots To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com About a weekor so ago, when moving some things out of the way of water coming into the basement, I moved the shoeboxes on top of my 4/110, running Solaris 2.4, about an inch or so while they were spinning... yes, I know, a bad thing to do. Upon powering up the system yesterday, there were some bad sector errors from the root partition... all other partitions went through fsck with no problems. The system then told me to run fsck manually, which I did. Apparently I answered some of the questions wrong, as now when I attempt to boot the system, I just get "device not found" for sd(0,0,0). (When this gets fixed, I'm going to install a second bootable partition!) To complicate things a bit, when I attempt to boot from the CD-ROM drive, sd(0,30,1), I also get "device not found." It's been months since I've used the CD-ROM drive on this system, and I guess it still works or is configured correctly; it's set for SCSI ID 6. For some reason, pins for IDs 1,2 and 4 were all jumpered, so I removed the jumper for ID 1. I don't have "parity" jumpered; should I? I don't see any pins numbered on the drive's SCSI connector, so I'm guessing that pin-1 is furtherest from the SCSI jumpers - nonetheless, I tried switching the SCSI connector around the other way, and that still didn't work. Once I get the CD-ROM recognized, what's the best way to undo whatever I've done wrong, aside from any files I may have messed up with fsck? Any help with this will be greatly appreciated! It's my main file server at home. -- R. D. Davis rdd@perqlogic.com Be careful what you wish for --- you http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd may get your wish ...and it might not Tel: (410) 744-4900 be what you were expecting. - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:12:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Ronald Florence Subject: FS: thinnet transceivers & adapter cables To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com We recently converted to a hub/UTC ethernet setup, and I now have 4 Milan AUI/thinnet transceivers available for sale cheap, along with the special sun cable that connects from a Sparc 5/10/20 to an AUI adapter. I'll sell all or part of the lot cheap. -- Ronald Florence 18 James Street, Providence, RI ron@18james.com http://users.ids.net/~18james - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:04:42 -0400 (EDT) From: BSD Bob Subject: Hello... anyone have any spare 60mb tape drives? To: Suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I was wondering if anyone had any spare Wangtek tape drives for the old Sun3 boxes? My spare drive bin is down to zero, because the rubber drive wheels on mine are slowly decomposing into goo. One other thing I am looking for is a spare Carrera 4M ram board to round my 3/110 out to 16mb. And, lastly I am looking for a sun3 SunOS-4.1.1 Fortran tape. I have the Sunos-3.5 running Fortran, but 3.5 does not like writing to tapes on my hardware, where SunOS-4.1.1 did fine. Any pointers to such bits and pieces are appreciated. Thanks Bob (Anyone on the list in the central North Carolina area?) - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:47:14 -0400 From: "Brian D. Cook" Subject: How to setup networing in Solaris 2.7 To: Hello, I have been the proud owner of a sparc5 for over a year now. I've been running linux for over three years, and when I acquired the sparc I took off the SunOS that was on it, and put linux on it. Well, I've also just come into Solaris 2.7 (developers edition - $20 how could you go wrong?) , any way my main home machine is a linux machine as well. I have installed Solaris on the sparc (with I'm sure way too much stuff 895mb install) It asked for the hostname and IP and subnet and such, but never asked for the domain, or gateway, or anything else.. which is fine, but how can I put this information in? I have dial-on-demand happing on the main machine, and I can ping the linux server from the sparc, but I can't see what the default route, domain.. is. ...And upon doing a search in the OS included help section on networking, came up with 0 hits :) go figure. HotJava only asks for proxies, so how do I accomplish what I'm looking to do? I thank everyone for taking the time to read this message Brian D. Cook Cim-Tech - Software Developer Designing for Industry - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 06:32:56 -0500 From: TOM BUZEK Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #24 To: "'Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com'" I just picked up a sparc2 for home use, is there any place that I can find info on this dinosaur? Info on spare parts? Or if you have spare parts . - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:14:58 -0500 From: "Buzek" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #24 To: Im to to clear on what hardware I can use on a sparc 2, does anyone know if I can put a new, say 18 gig scsi drive in it? - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************