Date: Tue, 28 Dec 93 14:31:55 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #41 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Tue, 28 Dec 93 Volume 6 : Issue 41 Today's Topics: Adding disk & CD-ROM to SS1+ A Sun to permit Internet Connection Newsprint installation QIC Tapes 300XL/P and 300XL? RAM for Sun 3/75 Suggestions for getting a SUN workstation at home Sun 3/75 FAQ? sun4 Architecture Docs... Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #40 Toshiba CD-ROM Which Sun Monitor is this? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 13:38:04 EST From: helen@nomad.urich.edu (Helen C. O'Boyle) Subject: Adding disk & CD-ROM to SS1+ To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Hi! I seem to have an old SS1+ in my possession. I also have a Fujitsu 1.2 meg drive. And a Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM. And the terminators for both of the above. And an internal 2-device PC SCSI cable. And an internal 1-device PC SCSI cable. And some power connectors. And a Solaris 2.2 CD-ROM. ... and lots of trouble trying to put these things together after too many years of working on AT&T equipment, even though I've played with UNIX for 8 or 9 years! ;-) I can make it hit the CD-ROM drive (ie, the light on the CD-ROM will light when I tell it to read), but it will complain that the file I told it to run is not in boot file format. Questions which will rank me as an absolute newbie at this Suns-at-home business: 1) Why are there two SCSI connectors on the motherboard? Which one does my disk plug into? What should I do with the other one? Does it need some sort of terminating resistor block? 2) It seems the folks on Usenet haven't had much luck making a Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM drive work on Suns without a hardware mod. Has anyone on this list had better luck with it? 3) What inexpensive CD-ROM drives are available in the typical PC outlets (CompUSA, Circuit City, etc.) which work on Suns, without neat modifications like cutting traces (what I hear is necessary for the Toshiba) or exchanging ROMS (see previous Suns-at-Home)? Double-speed is ideal, but even a slow one That Will Work would do. 4) Should I be able to boot the Solaris 2.2 CD-ROM, given that the machine is an older-model Sparc? (Doesn't the SS1 series use a different format of boot file?) 5) What is the monitor command to accomplish #3? (Note: "boot cdrom" doesn't do it; my ROMs don't know of the CD-ROM device). 6) Is there a place to get those plastic internal drive brackets cheaply? (My box came without them.) (Yes, I *know* Solaris 2.2 is not the winningest OS ever released; it was free in the box with the machine, though, so that makes it good enough at least temporarily!) Help with any or all of these questions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! -- * Helen * ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 15:09:34 +0100 From: stefano@agcis1.agcis.ST.IT (Stefano Bonacina) Subject: A Sun to permit Internet Connection To: suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Hi all. I've a Sun and I'd like to establish a service to permit remote users to log in my sun via modem and phone lines and than to connect to Internet. For the Internet connection I think I'll use PPP or SLIP, I was wondering if is there any quite easy way to have several phone lines on the same number (maybe BBS use this way) to have one line for the phone, one for the Internet connection and the other for the incoming connection. Anybody can help me? Thanks in advance, I will sumarize. Stefano ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 15:22:50 -0300 (ADT) From: Ahmed Bentiba Subject: Newsprint installation To: sun at home Hi sun users After adding an external disk on a IPC spark station, I tried to reinstall NewsPrint and I got the following message: "install unknown group staff unable to create /home/newsprint please check the directory permissions and try again" Do you have any idea of how to solve this problem? Ahmed Bentiba bentiba@umoncton.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 13:28:35 PST From: killion@public.btr.com (Richard R. Killion killion@btr.com) Subject: QIC Tapes 300XL/P and 300XL? To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu I have surplus quarter inch tapes with part numbers 300XL/P and 300XL. What are their capacities? Can I use them reliably in my Sun 60MB or 150MB tape drives? killion@btr.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 13:45:14 PST From: killion@public.btr.com (Richard R. Killion killion@btr.com) Subject: RAM for Sun 3/75 To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu What do I need to get an old Sun 3/75 populated with RAM? The second card , which has a scsi connector has 2 connectors with 3 rows of 32 holes. Part number of board is 501112201227 I assume you plug in ram cards here? How fast should the ram be? My old Sun 3/60 took the 100 Nanosecond simms. killion@btr.com P.S. It boots up saying it is a model Sun-3/75M or Sun 3/160M. (Rom Rev 2.7). Are these two machines essentially the same? The part # on my motherboard is 501116405157. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 20:38:08 EST From: "Don Amby, HEI, (414)797-6713" Subject: Suggestions for getting a SUN workstation at home To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I am in the market for a new machine at home, and I have been looking into 486 class machines. I want to run UNIX as my main platform, with the ability to run MS-windows (or MS-DOS) applications. At a recent Milwaukee Unix Users Group meeting someone from SunSoft was demonstrating the new Wabi product, to run MS-windows application in a window on a workstation. Someone suggested that maybe I should look into a used or reconditioned Sun workstation. As this is all a new area for me, any suggestions, hints, etc.? P.S. I have sent several requests to "Suns-at-Home-Archives" for back issues that may have covered this question. However, I have yet to get any of them (several in one message). [Check your mail configuration, Don. The archive server logs shows] [only "Don Amby, HEI, (414)797-6713" as your return address. --ed ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 20:05:49 PST From: killion@public.btr.com (Richard R. Killion killion@btr.com) Subject: Sun 3/75 FAQ? To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Is there a FAQ on the Sun 3/75? I may buy used one & I'm trying to get it working. killion@btr.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 17:28:41 EST From: dschieb@muse.CV.NRAO.EDU (Darrell Schiebel) Subject: sun4 Architecture Docs... To: suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Can anyone suggest places where I can find information about the sun4 architecture? I'm looking for information about the MMU, designing boot code, etc. Basically sources for information about microprogramming on SPARCstations. I'm trying to determine the difficulty involved in a license free port of the Mach 3.0 micro kernel to sun4s. So if you have any information about SPARC microprogramming or porting Mach or other 'alternative OSes' to SPARCstations, I'd really appreciate your comments or suggestions... thanks, Darrell Schiebel dschieb@nrao.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 16:49:20 +0100 From: Soenke Behrens Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #40 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu > Date: Wed, 8 Dec 93 10:47:59 EST > From: hkatz@mcns02.med.nyu.edu (Henry Katz) > Subject: fine tuning a monitor > To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu [...] > Is it possible for a mere software person to pop open a Sony GDM-1950 19" > color monitor with the purpose of fine tuning the electron beams which are > beyond the limits of the front panel controls without risk of electrocution? I'd say so, yes. But you won't have much success. 19" monitors are tricky beasts, and fine-tuning them is an artform, to say the least. You will not be able to do it "by sight", unless you are either more than just a software person or are willing to dedicate an unreasonable amount of time to it. Your local TV repair shop should do better, I guess ... Regards Soenke ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 15:58:14 -0500 From: "That Whispering Wolf..." Subject: Toshiba CD-ROM To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I recently aquired a SCSI CD-Rom drive and now have it on the SCSI chain on my SparcStation 1+. On boot, I get the following message: sr0: Unrecongized Vendor 'TOSHIBA ', product 'CD-ROM DRIVE:XM 'sr0 at esp0 target 6 lun 0 Attempting to mount the drive results in lots of nice errors. Specificially: esp0: data transfer overrun State=DATA Last State=RESEL Latched stat=0x11 intr=0x10 fifo 0x0 last msg out: ; last msg in: IDENTIFY DMA csr=0x80000000 addr=ff0b9000 last=ff0b8800 last_count=800 Cmd dump for Target 6 Lun 0: cdb=[ 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x10 0x10 0x0 ] pkt_state 0xf pkt_flags 0x0 pkt_statistics 0x1 cmd_flags=0x25 cmd_timeout 180 Mapped Dma Space: Base = 0xff0b7000 Count = 0x2000 Transfer History: Base = 0xff0b7000 Count = 0x2000 sr0: SCSI transport failed: reason 'data_ovr': retrying command sr0: disk not responding to selection esp0: Target 3 now Synchronous at 3.572 mb/s max transmit rate Can anyone tell me what I need to make this drive work? It's worked on this machine before (with the guy who owned the machine before me), but he took the software he used with him when he left. Thanks! -WW ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 20:10:44 PST From: killion@public.btr.com (Richard R. Killion killion@btr.com) Subject: Which Sun Monitor is this? To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu I have run across 2 monitors I'm considering to buy. One looks like the newer type monitors with the "kind-of" D-connector that has a bnc looking-lead, as well as the usual pins. The Model # is 17SMM1 Part #365-1055-01 Is this a color monitor? Can I use this on my Sun 3/60 with the appropriate 13W3 to BNC adaptor cable? Also ther is a monitor with # 540-1062-01. Any info on this? Is there an FTP site that may archive info like this? Thank you. killion@btr.com ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************