Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 10:57:04 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #41 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 9 Nov 92 Volume 5 : Issue 41 Today's Topics: 16550AFN for 386i? Bug in compress command? new "sun" owner Running DOS apps from SunOS Sun 2/120, SunOS v3.5, Micropolis 1578 SCSI +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 05:35:00 UTC From: rick@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) Subject: 16550AFN for 386i? To: Sun-386i@ssg.com Is there any hope of replacing the UART driving the primary serial port with a 16550AFN instead of whatever chip is in there? While 4.0.2 recognizes 19.2kb (hurray!), the buffer overruns are embarassing. I could, I suppose, put an AT serial board on the bus and stuff a 16550AFN in their but I'd rather not. Rick | Richard B. Emerson | Replies may be sent to: | | System Support Group | rick@ssg.com | | 940 Delaware Avenue |-------------------------------------------------+ | Lansdale, PA 19446 USA | "...don't forget to listen to the steady beat, | | Voice: 215.855.1607 | don't forget to balance on your ready feet." | ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 17:40:53 PST From: gpitcher@teamnet.cts.com Subject: Bug in compress command? To: suns@teamnet.cts.com I've been attempting to decompress a large tar file for sometime now (X11R5 - ~12M compressed) and each time, I receive a 'corrupt input' message after decompressign about 4 meg worth yet I have no problems uncompressing this file on my EISA machine running Interactive Unix. Does anyone know about a bug in this program and if so, is there possibly a replacement for it? -- Glenn Pitcher p4casb!gpitcher (work) System Administrator gpitcher@teamnet.cts.com (home) (and Unix Guru in Training) gpitcher@crash.cts.com (just for fun) United States Bankruptcy Court Southern District of California * Proud member of Team.Net * =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 18:31:16 EST From: halmonster Subject: new "sun" owner To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Greetings, all. I'm new to the world of sun ownership. I just purchased a SPARC 1+ for use at home. I've got a nice 19" color monitor, 32 MB of RAM, and a 200 MB internal SCSI HD. What i'm shopping for now are peripherals to complete the environemnt. I figure I need a good modem, a BIG hard disk, and some kind of tape backup. I'm considering the Telebit Worldblazer, a 1.2 GB disk from Acropolis (internal), and maybe an Exabyte 8mm tape drive. Can anyone comment on these choices? Also, what's the best place to go to purchase these things? My guess is a catalog, but I'm not sure which. Any pointers would be most welcome. Thanks! Hal <=============================================================================> Hal J Eisen, TMWTMOASS | "Violence is the last refuge of eisen@cs.jhu.edu (personal) | the incompetent" --Salvor Hardin eisen@jhuigf (BITNET) | Safer Sacs: Overprotect with mimsy.umd.edu!empress1!eisen (work) | Nimzovitch's Prophylaxis bus error (passengers dumped) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Nov 92 22:03:34 UTC From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) Subject: Running DOS apps from SunOS To: Sun-386i@ssg.com When I run a MS-DOS program that requires a window (e.g., a storm tracking program), after it completes I get something like "[Press any key to continue]." That's a real pain in the neck because a) the window won't close until the requested keystroke is received and b) the script won't continue until the keystroke is received (in this particular case following the dos command with an "&" can't be used because the rest of the script has to wait until the program is finished). Question: Is there any way to suppress this message and the associated wait for a keystroke? This message occurs with other programs, too, not just the tracking program. This rules out some effect from just one program. Rick | Richard B. Emerson | Replies may be sent to: | | System Support Group | unixsys@ssg.com -or- rick@ssg.com | | 940 Delaware Avenue |-------------------------------------------------+ | Lansdale, PA 19446 USA | "If I knew what I was doing, | | Voice: 215.855.1607 | I wouldn't do it." - Me | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 18:42:08 CST From: egf-bbs!mike@plains.NoDak.edu (System Operator) Subject: Sun 2/120, SunOS v3.5, Micropolis 1578 SCSI To: Suns-At-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Suns-at-Home mailing list) I'm using a drive from work for a couple days and if I can get it to work for me I might try and buy it. It's a 382M (unformatted) Micropolis 1578-15 SCSI drive. I'm running the ESDI version (Micropolis 1558) on my Sun 2/120, SunOS v3.5 right now and I really like it. Anyway, using diag on the Sun it gives me the option of Emulex SCSI<->ESDI or Adaptec ST506<->SCSI. Which of these should I tell it I'm using (I'm just plugging the drive into the second SCSI card). I can get it to query the drive, sort of, but it doesn't exactly find it. I _might_ have a jumper set wrong since I don't know what any of the jumpers do. Can someone give me some clues how to set up an embedded SCSI disk on a Sun 2/120 under SunOS v3.5? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Aos Preferred-> plains!egf-bbs!mike This egf-bbs.uucp (218) 773-1084 Checked daily-> plains!milo!maos message Sun 2/120 RR#1 Box 40 Last resort-> maos@nyx.cs.du.edu delayed (218) 773-3124 East Grand Forks, MN 56721-9703 24 hrs Login as 'guest' ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************