Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 09:13:15 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #28 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Thu, 16 Sep 93 Volume 6 : Issue 28 Today's Topics: capabilities of ALM-2 card in a Sun 3/260 is there a way to run 3/60's serial ports reliably faster than 19k? Need info on turning a Sun 3/80 into a home X-Term Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #27 (3 msgs) Sun shoebox booting problem and blinking LEDs Taylor-uucp error What is a boot tape for a 3/60? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 21:14:20 CDT From: matt@severian.chi.il.us (Matt Crawford) Subject: capabilities of ALM-2 card in a Sun 3/260 To: simon@internode.com.au The first 4 ports of the ALM-2 have modem control, the other 12 do not. I'm not sure whether "modem control" in this case includes inbound flow control when the buffer or fifo is full, but it will certainly honor the modem's CTS signal for outbound flow control, and this is generally most of what you want. Matt Crawford ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1993 19:36:12 -0500 (EST) From: craig@orb.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) Subject: is there a way to run 3/60's serial ports reliably faster than 19k? To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I have seen mention made (in one of the comp.sys.sun newsgroups) of a way to modify the serial port hardware/software on the 3/60 to enable the use of port speeds higher than 19200 bps reliably. The reason I want to know is that along with upgrading the CPU clock to 24 MHz, I'd like to be able to connect to my V42/V42bis capable modem at 38400 bps reliably, as using this speed at present causes problems with lost characters, etc. as many people will be well aware. I understand that the mods to the serial stuff render some slower speeds unusable, but this isn't a problem so long as I can still use 19200 and 9600 bps as well as higher rates (38400 and 56700?). If anyone can offer some info I'd appreciate it. If no-one here can help I'll post to comp.sys.sun.hardware with this request. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 14:58:39 EDT From: ddoherty@chipcom.com (Dave Doherty) Subject: Need info on turning a Sun 3/80 into a home X-Term To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Need info on turning a Sun 3/80 into a home X-Term... or something like that... FOR HOME USE: What I have is a Sun 3/80 witha color monitor and a small (100Mb?) hard disk. I also have a Telebit QBlazer. AT WORK: Various UNIX machines that I can dial into (all Sun 4's). One of them on our net is my Sparc 10 that I have root access to. Modems I can dial into are Telebit T2500's. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO: I would like to be able to have a Sun work environment at home. I would like to have something running off my Sparc 10 that will give me a Openwindows work environment. I'm thinking the Sun 3/80 being an Xterm or something. OR AS CLOSE TO THIS AS I CAN GET... Thanks in advance Dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 13:19:41 EDT From: smb@research.att.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #27 To: halmonster I'm finally in the market for a laser printer for home. I've seen HP's A word of caution -- laser printers draw a lot of current. When I finally got one, I had to run a new branch circuit. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 19:41:11 -0500 (EDT) From: Michael Chapman Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #27 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I've got a few questions: What do I need to do to use an NEC CDR-25 for the PC on an SS1+ to boot from? Does anyone know if NEC offers a firmware upgrade? Are there any CPU replacements for the SS1+ like there are for the SS2? I'm not interested in buying a whole new logic board, but a new CPU with a doubled clock would be a nice option. Are there any cheap ways for me to learn SPARC machine language? I really don't want to buy a book for $50. Is there any way to improve the performance of the floppy disk drive reading MS-DOS disks? Does anyone know where I could get detailed performance comparisons between an old 2-slot GX board and more recent hardware for multiple platforms? Thanks for any and all help. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 14:58:53 -0700 (MST) From: castalia@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu (Bradford Castalia) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #27 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu We are using an ALM-2 here, and I have found out from our friendly Sun (Kodak) Field Service person that it only supports RTS/CTS hardware flow control on ports 0-3; all the ports support carrier detect (which, of course, must be enabled in software - we do this by setting the "remote" status flag for the port in the /etc/ttytab file). We do not run any port over 19.2 (because of the numerous warnings from other system administrators). Bradford Castalia castalia@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 21:54:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert D. Davis" Subject: Sun shoebox booting problem and blinking LEDs To: suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Greetings, Hopefully, someone reading this is familiar with what blinking LEDs on the SCSI to ESDI converter and tape drive controller mean. When attempting to boot my 3/60 from a shoebox, the following things happen: Turn shoebox on. LED 1 & 2 on tape drive controller go on at same time then both go off. HD spins up. Green LED on SCSI to ESDI controller begins blinking (and remains blinking). Turn on 3/60 & it checks memory. "Auto-boot in progress" message appears. Tape drive grunts twice and LED 2 comes on and stays on. LED 1 starts flashing. Tape drive motor begins spinning. Disk access occurs. Tape drive motor keeps spinning & front light stays on. A timeout bus error occurs. The following is on the screen: Boot: sd(0,0,0) Timeout bus error Vaddr: 80000000, Paddr: 00000000, Type 0, Read, FC 5, Size 1 at 0000415C If I attempt another boot ("b sd()") from the monitor prompt, the following error appears: Timeout bus error Vaddr: 1FFFE000, Paddr: 00BFC000, Type 0, Write, FC 5, Size 2 at 00004022 In addition, something different, but similar, happens sometimes (actually, most of the time now). When the shoebox is first turned on, the tape drive grunts twice and LED 1 (on the tape drive controller) begins blinking. LED 2 stays on steady. The tape drive morot starts spinning. When the 3/60 attempts to boot, the tape drive stops spinning and grunts twice, Both LEDs on controller go off and back on and LED 1 starts blinking again. Tape motor resumes spinning. Disk access occurs. Same error messages that appear above appear. Does anyone know what is causing this strange behavior and what the blinking LEDs mean? First, a bit of history: I recently purchased the shoebox knowing that there was something wrong with it (a problem with the hard disk). One of the probems turned out to be a stiction problem with the hard disk. When the shoebox was powered up, the hard disk would not spin up. I carefully, manually, spun the drive, reconnected it and it started spinning when power was applied. I had removed the tape drive to get a better look at the DIP switch settings on the SCSI to ESDI converter board. When I put it back and re-connected the SCSI controller, I accidentally connected it wrong. Instead of the cable-side connector being on both rows of pins on the tape controller board, it was accidentally connected to only one row on pins. Before this happened, both lights on the tape-controller board remained on continuously. Did I short something out? If so, is it easily repairable? Thanks for any information that anyone can provide! -- Robert D. Davis Eccentrics have more fun! :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 11:08:06 +0200 From: gj@sunshine.fido.de (Goeran Jensen) Subject: Taylor-uucp error To: suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu (Suns-at-home) Hello Sun-gurus, I compiled the Taylor-uucp V1.04 on my Sun LX under Solaris 2.2. After setting up a remote host and trying to test the transfer, the dialup ACU connected to the remote host and the login was sucsessfull. After a few seconds the modem hangs up and I got the following error in the "Debug"-File: Can't set CLOCAL Does anybody know what's wrong? Is it a permission error? Thanks for advise. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 10:44:21 -0700 From: Marc.Berkowitz@Barra.COM (Marc Berkowitz) Subject: What is a boot tape for a 3/60? To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I have a 3/60 at home that I bought second-hand from a fellow who has since disappeared. It runs 4.1.1 and has one 360meg disk and a QIC-24 tape. I have backup tapes of / and /usr, but doesn't this leave me sunk if my disk drive goes? What constitutes a boot tape and how can I make one myself? -- Marc Berkowitz marc@barra.com ...!uupsi!barra!marc 1-510-649-4617 ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************