Date: Mon, 8 Nov 93 09:57:29 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #36 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 8 Nov 93 Volume 6 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: cg3 forsale, parallel board wanted NetBSD/Sun3 Sun 3/50 interferes with FM reception Sun 3/50 Monitor Problems Sun 4/110 Motherboard wanted Sun Shoebox (w/disk + tape) for sale. Wanted: DEC DSP3105 format.dat entry +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 12:33:31 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Chapman Subject: cg3 forsale, parallel board wanted To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I have an sbus cg3 forsale, BO, and I'm looking for a parallel port board (maybe with serial ports also, sbus) - I'd trade the cg3 for one, or purchase. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1993 11:09:59 -0800 From: Adam Glass Subject: NetBSD/Sun3 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu [i posted this to comp.sys.sun3.announce. one of the respondents suggested i send it here as well. good to hear this list still exists] Subject: NetBSD/Sun3: Looking for a few good sun3 hackers Sun3 hackers: Feeling abandoned by Sun? (YES!!!) Miss the easy access to source of the old days? (YES!!!) Want to prove that you can make a Sun3 go faster than Sun could? (YES!!!) Are you a sun3 whiz who feels alienated among sparcs (or someone who owns a few too many sun3s? (YES!!!) If you answered yes to a few of these questions, you may be interested in the following paragraphs. If not, you may be anyway, so be patient. First, what the hell is NetBSD?: -------------------------------- NetBSD is a Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2) -derived system. It is a fully functional UNIX-like system which runs on several architectures and is being ported to more. NetBSD, as the name implies, is a creation of the members of the network community and without the net it's likely that it would never have been successful. NetBSD is freely redistributable, with all of the kernel and most of the utilities under berkeley-style copyright/license, with the rest being under the GPL. In general, we favor non-GPLed code where possible, and in particular our kernel is GPL-free. NetBSD is primarily a source-oriented release, with binary releases provided for convinience. NetBSD currently runs on the i386 (PCs), hp300, amiga, mac, pc532, sparc, and a 68k SBC, though not all of these ports have been released yet. Now the *COOL* part: ------------------ A few months ago, I undertook the task of porting NetBSD to the sun3. At the present time, the sun3 port boots over NFS, and execs init. Sounds kind of simple, but it was actually a considerable amount of work much of it is tied to some of the wierder aspects of the sun3 architecture. The port however still requires a lot of work before it can be described as production quality. Some device-drivers are needed, some work to sync it up with the current NetBSD tree, some known and probably unknown bugs need to be fixed, a real distribution must be built, etc. Fortunately, we already have sunos compatibility code from the sparc port, it just needs some glue-code. The work remaining is not trivial, but most of the truly difficult work is done. The Problem: ------------ I am the only person who has really worked on this port. Many things have transpired since the port was started, some of which have limited my ability to finish the port. New responsibilities are making it increasingly difficult to spend any time on the port, and other factors are forcing a change of platform. The Solution: You. ------------- The NetBSD project, and myself in particular are looking for a few good hackers who have the time, equipment, experience, and commitment to take the sun3 port the rest of the way, the eventual goal a full NetBSD/Sun3 release. In return, you gain fame, experience, and hopefully have a good time. To make this happen, the NetBSD project will support these volunteers with our best resource, the collected experience of the NetBSD project. In particular, said volunteers will have high-priority access to me, and the other NetBSD porting veterans. Persons interested in this great project should contact me directly via e-mail. later, Adam Glass glass@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu later, Adam Glass ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 14:14 EST From: paulh@ox.com (Paul Haas) Subject: Sun 3/50 interferes with FM reception To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I have a Sun 3/50 with a Parity Systems memory expansion card. I use screenblank. When the screen is blanked I can get 101.9 FM WDET just fine on the stereo receiver about 8 feet away. When the screen unblanks, I get a lot of static. This isn't a problem on the other stations I listen to, I presume this is because WDET has a relatively weak signal. I still get static with the monitor turned off and the video cable removed. So I believe the source for the interference is the system box. Are there any simple and cheap things to do to cut down this RFI (radio frequency interference)? -- Paul Haas paulh@ox.com (313) 998-0196 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 10:34:10 EST From: "Michael J. Donahoo" Subject: Sun 3/50 Monitor Problems To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu My Sun 3/50 19" monochrome monitor is blank (yes, it's turned on). The problem started with turning on my monitor to find a jumbled screen which eventually corrected itself (after the monitor got warm). Now when I turn it on, regardless of how long I leave it on, it is blank. Any ideas on which component is fried? I have a dumb terminal hooked up so I know the 3/50 still works (I can even log onto the console which I verify with the dumb terminal). Any help would be appreciated Thanks Jeff (mjd@cc.gatech.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 16:17 PST From: Steve_Goyette@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Goyette) Subject: Sun 4/110 Motherboard wanted To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Hi all, I'm looking to upgrade my trusty 3/110 system and heard it was possible to replace the motherboard with one from a 4/110. If this is possible, would anyone have one (Preferably working) that they would be willing to sell or trade for something else?? This is just a home system, so I'm trying to get away cheap (Yeah, I know, that c word again) Anyway, if anyone has anything could you please let me know. Thankx, ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 10:46:01 PST From: dougd@uts.amdahl.com (Douglas DeMers) Subject: Sun Shoebox (w/disk + tape) for sale. To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu I have a Sun shoebox for sale which has a 60MB tape drive and 141MB hard disk. I guarantee it will work on a 386i (not all of the Sun shoebox/tape combinations will work with the 386i - believe me, I found that out!) It should also work fine at least on the other Sun 3 platforms. I added a 150MB tape drive and a 327MB disk to my 386i at home, so I don't need this shoebox any more. $500/obo. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 16:35:43 GMT From: Adam BJ Quantrill Subject: Wanted: DEC DSP3105 format.dat entry To: sah@ecn.purdue.edu Says it all, really. Replies on a disk block, please to: ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************