Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:45:27 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #4 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 25 Jan 93 Volume 6 : Issue 4 Today's Topics: CDROM on Sun 3 CG3 board to RGB monitor? ELC at home Maxtor LXT200S replies SCSI 4/260 SMD Disk Question +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:31:29 PST From: grover@vulcan1.hac.com (Dean Grover) Subject: CDROM on Sun 3 To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I am considering getting a CDROM for my Sun 3/110. I would like to hear from anyone who has connected a CDROM to a Sun 3 system. Will it work ? It appears to be supported under SunOS 4.1.1 (the sr driver is there). Thanks, Dean //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Dean Grover Hughes Aircraft Company adgrover@hac2arpa.hac.com or grover@vulcan1.edsg.hac.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 17:56:44 EST From: Roger Grywalski Subject: CG3 board to RGB monitor? To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I have just acquired a CG3 board for my Sun 3/260, the board has red, green, blue, and sync connectors, I would like to use this board with a monitor that has only red, green, and blue connectors (with the sync signal sharing the green connector). Can this be done? Is it as easy as putting my outgoing green and sync lines into a T connector and then into the green connector on the monitor? What are the odds of me breaking my board and/or monitor by experimenting? -- Roger Grywalski roger@alta-oh.com ALTA Analytics PH# (614) 792-2222 555 Metro Place North Dublin, Oh 43017 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 15:07:44 -0500 (EST) From: Nico Tjandra Subject: ELC at home To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Greetings, I have a Sparc-ELC at home with 200MB disk and 8 Mbyte memory. My question is what would be a minimum amount of memory needed to get a respectable performance. Right now it does continues paging especially for openwindows which degrades performance. The next question would be what type of personal productivity (wordprocessor, spreadsheets, etc) softwares would be recomended for suns-at-home, if budget is constrained (a lot). Thanks for all the info. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:33:49 EST From: hkatz@NUCMED.MED.NYU.EDU (Henry Katz) Subject: Maxtor LXT200S replies To: sah@ecn.purdue.edu Last wekk I deperately sought help about a formatting problem on a Maxtor LXT200S in my SS 1+. The most important issue was resolved, however, by a customer support tech who reported that the PROM on the drive was not compatible with a Sun. Obviously the vendor goofed, so it's on its way back for an exchange. I shall be sure to try these suggestions when the new drive arrives. Thanks to all who replied about the formatting problem on the Maxtor: bsmart@verdix.com sauruggerpn@phibred.com rna!sinan@sunup.West.Sun.Com polaris1!support!lv@uunet.UU.NET Henry Katz hkatz@nucmed10.med.nyu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 22:27:03 EST From: pilot@sunpix.East.Sun.COM (Vic Tolomei - Sun NC Development) Subject: SCSI 4/260 To: smb@genrad.com First, make DARN sure that the total SCSI cable length does not exceed about 6'-8', or you'll have intermittant problems galore. Second, what devices do you want to add? How many? Third, you will probably need to deal with terminators both on the existing tape drive, and on the newly added devices -- only have the terminators on the last device in the daisy chain. Fourth, in the old 4.x days, there wasn't a lot of multiple SCSI device set up in the generic conf file for the kernel -- so you had to add them yourself (see question 2 above). You need to understand the device formats, the flags, etc. for the SCSI driver. You may even need a 2nd SCSI host adaptor in the pathological case. Vic Tolomei ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 9:18:07 EST From: Roger Grywalski Subject: SMD Disk Question To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I have a Sun3/260 with a 501-1166 Xylogics 451 SMD controller connected to a X606 560M pedestal (containing two Fujitsu 280M disks). I have an opertunity to get a Fujitsu SMD M2372K disk. Can I connect the Fujitsu SMD M2372K to my X606 pedestal? It has two unused "SMD command" ports on the back. Will my controller handle three disks? Thanks... -- Roger Grywalski roger@alta-oh.com ALTA Analytics PH# (614) 792-2222 555 Metro Place North Dublin, Oh 43017 ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************