Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 09:25:46 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #30 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 27 Sep 93 Volume 6 : Issue 30 Today's Topics: 3/60 jumper blocks Disk installation problem Openwin 3.0 with Sparc IPC Sun 3/50 to Sun 3/60 Too stupid to boot from st0 ?!? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 93 4:47:17 EST From: craig@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick) Subject: 3/60 jumper blocks To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu > I have a Sun 3/60 that I suspect is configured to use the AUI > connector not the BNC connector (thinnet) for ethernet. Another > person in town who has a SUN 3/60 told me there was a set of 8 > jumpers within 5 inch radius of the BNC connector... I have > pulled the motherboard out several times looking in vain for > this jumper block to switch it from AUI to BNC. I lent out my > EEPROM manual and haven't gotten it back. :-( It seems to me > there was a way to reconfigure later SUN 3/60's using software > only.. Or am I confusing a SPARC reference manual with the SUN 3/60? looking at the main board with the back panel facing you, there should be a strip of jumper pins near the top left of the board. There are 8 jumpers in all, six of which enable the six 4 meg banks of DRAM (the left-most group), the seventh does something (don't know what), and the last one (right-most pair) is the one that changes the ethernet selection. (If you're really confused, hold the board so that the SIMM module sockets are in the top half of the board in the middle. This should have the rear panel [the one with all the connectors on it] at the bottom). When I received mine I had to change this jumper, as it had previously been used as an Xterminal over thick ethernet. I don't recall whether the block has to be fitted or not to enable the thin ethernet - just try it on and off to see which interface it uses. My machine was manufactured in 1989, so it's a reasonably recent revision. There should be no jumpers anywhere near the BNC connector - I don't know where your informant got this info. I looked there myself until I was told to change the 8th jumper on the set in the top left corner. ANother simple way to find it is look for the clock battery - the jumper array is near this. I hope this helps. Craig. [There were about a dozen responses to this question. Craig's seems pretty] [clear so I am not including the others. Thank you to all those 3/60 ] [experts who responded! --ddm ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 15:43:04 +0400 (AST) From: Ahmed Bentiba Subject: Disk installation problem To: Dwight McKay Hi everyone I installed a disk (1.05 GB) on a Sun Sparc station Ipc . I followed the manufacturer guide. When I issued the command df the disk doesn't appear on the list. I asked the dealer and he told me that I have to mount it and add an entry in the fstab file. It is a very simple thing to do to an experienced Unix-person. I am not an Unix expert. Whats the command to use if one would know the name of the device assigned to the disk during the installation? Can someone help me, in details, to mount that disk? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 09:13:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: root Subject: Openwin 3.0 with Sparc IPC To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I've installed the new release of OW 3.0 with the patch utility, everything seems to work properly but after the login i have to wait more than 2 minutes before getting the windows shell , with OW 2 everything gone faster than now. So , what are the advantages i can get with the new release if i waste a lot of time with every OW utility ? Where i get wrong ? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 14:41:29 -0400 (EDT) From: selig@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Paul D. Selig) Subject: Sun 3/50 to Sun 3/60 To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu Hi Everyone! Since we're on the topic of Sun 3/60's, I have a few questions: 1) I currently have a Sun 3/50 that I'd like to upgrade to a Sun 3/60. I've found a 3/60 motherboard for $200, but I guess I need an additional frame buffer to make the unit operational. Can anyone tell me what kind of frame buffer I should order to let the 3/60 work with my 3/50 monitor? 2) I have a monitor here which, according to the Sun Field Engineering Manuals, is a 19" High Resolution ECL with OCLI. What does the "OCLI" stand for, and what machine is this monitor usable with? I can't get it to sync up with any Sun 3 or Sun 4 that I can get my hands on. 3) Does anyone have a set of SunOS 4.1.1 Rev B tapes they can part with? All I have is the CD-ROM version, which makes it kinda difficult to boot a Sun-3 with!! Or, alternatively, can anyone tell me the proper steps needed to write a useable tape using the data from the CD-ROM? I do have a 60 Meg tape drive I can connect up to write a tape... Thanks for all your help! Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 20:07:34 +0200 From: Soenke Behrens Subject: Too stupid to boot from st0 ?!? To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Suns-At-Home Mailing) Hallo, I have a little (or maybe big) problem with my old Sun 3/60: It seems I can't boot from tape. First, my setup: It's a Shoebox with an ESDI HD and one of them old 60MB tapes that have a special SCSI-to-something (forgot what) board with them. All this is connected to the 3/60 with a 3 metre cable. I have, alas, no shorter one. The ROM revision of the Sun is 1.9. Now, what happens is this: I go into the boot monitor, type b st(). Tape whirrs for a while, I get a "Bus Timeout" error. I type b st() again, the mini-kernel on tape loads. Someway through the process, usually when putting the mini-root on the swap partition, I get a "Bus Timeout" again and the machine either reboots or goes straight to never-never-land. I tried removing the internal terminators from the HD and putting on external ones .... no change. I left out the external ones ... again, no change. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is my tape drive damaged, or should I just try a shorter SCSI cable (which is, alas, rather expensive with the silly connectors Sun chose :)? If enough interest's there, I'll summarize responses and mail them back to this list. Thanks a lot Soenke ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************