Date: Mon, 30 Nov 92 09:48:46 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #44 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 30 Nov 92 Volume 5 : Issue 44 Today's Topics: HELP!! SCSI tape error Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #43 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 92 17:18:59 PST From: gpitcher@teamnet.cts.com Subject: HELP!! SCSI tape error To: sun-386i@teamnet.cts.com, suns@teamnet.cts.com Yesterday I started encountering problems with my 1/4" SCSI tape. They system is acting like it's not plugged in but all connections are secure. The green status light which is usually flashing - isn't. There is another green LED on the tape's board inside which is constantly flashing which I'm assuming means as far as the tape drive's circuitry concerned, everything is OK. Here's the startup messages I'm getting... Nov 27 16:49:59 teamnet SunOS Release 4.0.2 (TEAMNET) #2: Thu Jan 31 18:23:44 PST 1991 Nov 27 16:50:00 teamnet Copyright (c) 1988 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Nov 27 16:50:00 teamnet mem = 8192K (0x800000) Nov 27 16:50:00 teamnet avail mem = 7340032 Nov 27 16:50:00 teamnet 32. level 1 page tables, 64. level 2 page tables Nov 27 16:50:00 teamnet Ethernet address = 8:0:20:2:60:86 Nov 27 16:50:00 teamnet wds0 at obmem 0xfb000000 <6>irq 16 pri 2 <6> Nov 27 16:50:01 teamnet sd0 at wds0 slave 0 Nov 27 16:50:01 teamnet sd1 at wds0 slave 8 Nov 27 16:50:01 teamnet sd2 at wds0 slave 16 Nov 27 16:50:01 teamnet sd2: Nov 27 16:50:01 teamnet sd3 at wds0 slave 24 Nov 27 16:50:01 teamnet st4 at wds0 slave 32 Nov 27 16:50:01 teamnet fdc0 at atmem 0x1000 <6>irq 14 pri 2 <6> Nov 27 16:50:01 teamnet fd0 at fdc0 slave 0 Nov 27 16:50:02 teamnet fd2 at fdc0 slave 1 Nov 27 16:50:02 teamnet ie0 at obmem 0xd0000000 <6>irq 21 pri 3 <6> Nov 27 16:50:02 teamnet cgthree0 at obmem 0xa0400000 <6> Nov 27 16:50:02 teamnet zs0 at obmem 0xfc000000 <6>irq 9 pri 6 <6> Nov 27 16:50:02 teamnet zs1 at obmem 0xa0000020 <6>irq 9 pri 6 <6> Nov 27 16:50:02 teamnet pp0 at atio 0x378 <6>irq 15 pri 2 <6> Nov 27 16:50:02 teamnet root on sd02a fstype 4.2 Nov 27 16:50:03 teamnet swap on sd02b fstype spec size 15750K Nov 27 16:50:03 teamnet dump on sd02b fstype spec Nov 27 16:50:03 teamnet sd2h: read recoverable, blk 56045 (abs blk 143615) Nov 27 16:50:03 teamnet sense key(0x1): soft error, error code(0x17): recoverable error Nov 27 16:50:25 teamnet lpd[105]: /usr/spool/lw/lw-log: No such file or directory Nov 27 16:52:28 teamnet scsi: unexpected interrupt status: 0x0 Nov 27 16:52:37 teamnet sd2h: read retry, blk 206656 (abs blk 294226) Nov 27 16:52:37 teamnet sense key(0x6): unit attention, error code(0x29): reset Nov 27 16:54:56 teamnet scsi: unexpected interrupt status: 0x0 Nov 27 16:55:05 teamnet sd2h: write retry, blk 8552 (abs blk 96122) Nov 27 16:55:05 teamnet sense key(0x6): unit attention, error code(0x29): reset Nov 27 17:01:22 teamnet su: gpitcher on /dev/console Nov 27 17:01:33 teamnet halt: halted by gpitcher Nov 27 17:01:34 teamnet syslogd: going down on signal 15 If anyone can give me some assistance I'd really appriciate 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: Mon, 23 Nov 92 14:33:19 -0500 From: mikem@ll.mit.edu (Michael J Maciolek) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #43 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Saw your note in a Suns-at-home digest. > I figure it would be best to reinstall the OS and start from scratch. > Of course the system did not come with boot tapes or much doc. I'd agree - it sounds like a re-install is your best bet. Since it was already running 4.1.1, there won't be a licensing problem. If you can obtain the release tapes, you can legally load and run that release on your system. Unfortunately, I don't really know what the legalities are regarding copying SunOS tapes, and I wouldn't be willing to entrust my one set to the care of either the US Postal Service or UPS (pronounced "oops"). Hopefully, someone nearby will turn up who has a legal set of tapes you can borrow. X will be quite useable on a 3/260. The 68020 processor runs at 25 MHz, and 24 megs of memory is quite generous for a Sun3. Your disk capacity is also generous; you'll have absolutely no trouble fitting the entire SunOS release, plus a complete MIT X11R5 if you like, with plenty of room to spare for various other PD utilities. To use any color monitor at all, you'd need a separate VME color frame buffer...the cheapest would be called a "cgthree". You can probably find them from used computer dealers for a couple hundred dollars...I don't know exactly, as I haven't priced them lately. I don't know about the HP monitor you mentioned; but any monitor would have to sync to 66 Hz. The resolution on a color Sun monitor is 1152 x 900, noticeably less than the 1600 x 1280 that you get with your monochrome hi-res monitor. Hope this helps. -- Mike Maciolek mikem@ll.mit.edu ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************