Date: Sat, 16 Oct 99 17:15:07 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #29 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 16 Oct 99 Volume 12 : Issue 29 Today's Topics: DNS w/IP forwarding Exabyte and Solaris 7 Sparc LX has static in video display Sparc LX video problems... Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #28 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 10 Oct 1999 21:03:47 -0600 From: Jeffrey Hauser Subject: DNS w/IP forwarding To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello All - I recently acquired a Sun Sparc2; and with the help of various people and much experimentaion, finally have it working well. I have one remaining problem that I have not been able to solve. I have DSL, and have it set up so that my linux machine does ip forwarding. (It has two NICs, etc.) The Sun plugs into the hub, etc, and has access to the internet. I issue the route add command, and I'm all set. The Linux box forwards the sun's packets out, no problem. My difficulty is that the Sun will not to a DNS lookup. I can ping IPs all day, but not a name. I've got the resolv.conf file in /etc, but it does not work. I'm running SunOS 4.1.4. My resolv.conf looks like this search dnvr.uswest.net uswest.net nameserver 206.196.128.1 nameserver 204.147.80.5 What do I need to do to get this to work? Thanks jeff jhauser1@uswest.net "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -Thomas Watson Chairman of IBM, 1943 "No gentleman allows crass commercial considerations to govern his hobby." -Sheldon T. Hall - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:32:05 +0100 (BST) From: Charles Lindsey Subject: Exabyte and Solaris 7 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:00:56 +0100 (BST) > > From: Charles Lindsey > > Subject: Exabyte and Solaris 7 > > To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > > > I have an Exabyte tape drive and have just installed Solaris 7 (sparc). > > The two do not get on well together. It will rewind and shift back and > > forth over files (using the mt command) but any attempt to read gives > > immediate read failures (using dd, or anything else). It worked fine under > > Solaris 2.5.1, so it is not a hardware problem. Indeed, it sounds like a > > driver problem. Thanks to all the people who replied to this one. Here is what I did. 1. It seems you have to configure /kernel/drv/st.conf. I have never had to do this before for my old QIC-24 tapes, nor for my Exabyte on Sol 2.5.1 (moreover, the st man page says nothing about what the defaults are). Anyway, I configured it, but it made no difference. 2. I checked the revision levels of the two EPROMs, and they were way out of date. I considered burning new ones (you can download the binaries from www.exabyte.com). I may yet do this someday. 3. I obtained patch #107460-03 "SunOS 5.7 st driver patch" and tried the st driver fron it, but no difference again (not that I would have expected it to from the texts with the patch). 4. I installed the st driver from Solaris 2.5.1, and that worked. Not nice to be running out of date drivers, but at least I was able to dump my complete system for the first time in about six weeks. 5. And then I saw the following from Hugh Couchman: > Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:45:26 -0400 (EDT) > From: Hugh Couchman > Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #27 > To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > I had this same problem with an old Exabyte 8200 on upgrade to Solaris > 7. I found something on sunsolve which said that one had to make sure > that switch 5 on the MX card had to be on (Exabyte's web site said > that I needed a PROM upgrade). Anyway, turing this switch on actually > made it work - much to my surprise. The only thing is that doing mt > status on an empty drive sits there doing nothing for a long time but > otherwise it seems fine. And yes, switch 5 was off. So I set it on (also switch 2 to enable parity), reverted to the official Solaris 7 driver, and it all works again. Oddly enough, it had switch 8 set on. This seems to be something to do with the Cartridge Type (P5 rather than P6). Does anyone know what this means? Also, I see from the st man page that it is possible to enable the Write Data Buffering feature by means of suitable incantations in st.conf. This should speed up transfer speed when writing. Has anybody any experience of doing this? Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Email: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Voice/Fax: +44 161 437 4506 Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:25:24 +0200 From: Volker Borchert Subject: Sparc LX has static in video display To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com |> The video gets hashed up whenever there is heavy disk access going on. I |> have the box hooked up with a Sun-to-PC video adapter and am using an |> iiyama VisionMaster Pro 450 19" PC monitor for display. ? Electromagnetic interference. Check whether any video cabling runs parallel to SCSI and/or disk power cabling. ? Poor power cabling, maybe a loose mainboard connector. Remove and re-seat all power cables. ? Poor video cabling, maybe insufficient, broken or improperly connected shield. Try another cable. Wrap existing cable in aluminium from the kitchen, connected to Sun chassis. Connect Sun and monitor chassis with extra cable. ? Dying power supply. Try to supply power to disk from external supply (spare connector in some peecee). ? Monitor operating outside of specified sync frequency ranges. Does it "officially" support 1152x900 @ 66kHz/66Hz? ? Disk drawing excessive power, maybe going to die soon. If you can borrow another disk, give it a try. Do you get any SCSI errors (media error, command timeout, etc.)? Volker - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:08:27 -0400 From: "Ken Hansen" Subject: Sparc LX video problems... To: John, I wonder if the 2 G drive might be putting too much of a load on the PS - have you tried removing the drive from the box and using an external drive instead? You could also try a different framebuffer to see if that is the weak point... If all else fails, you could probably get a replacement LX for about $50-75 (bare), but you have all the extras already... Hope this helps, Ken khansen@njcc.com -----Original Message----- >Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 16:26:28 +0000 >From: John Hagen >Subject: Sparc LX has static in video display >To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com > >Hi all, > >I just acquired a Sparc LX with an unknown 2 GB hard disk and 72 MB of >RAM (all slots filled). > >I booted it up for the first time tonight and it seems to run Solaris >2.6 just fine, with one problem: > >The video gets hashed up whenever there is heavy disk access going on. I >have the box hooked up with a Sun-to-PC video adapter and am using an >iiyama VisionMaster Pro 450 19" PC monitor for display. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 00:15:04 -0400 From: Howard Huntley Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #28 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I wonder what application software does Sun at home users run on there systems?? If a new user wanted to learn the sun system what application software would you recommend to get him started. I have always wondered how many subscribers there are to this news letter?? - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************