Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 08:16:49 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #6 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 7 Feb 94 Volume 7 : Issue 6 Today's Topics: 4/40 (sun4c) Where to get PMEG thrashing fix? Archives: back issues of Suns-At-Home Digest HELP HELP on PPP NEC Silentwriter 95 and Sun sparcstation? ST-2209N format.dat SUMMARY: Sun 4/280 woe Sun Equip 4-sale +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 94 13:23:14 MET From: Marinos Yannikos Subject: 4/40 (sun4c) Where to get PMEG thrashing fix? To: suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu I think I am experiencing the symptoms of the so-called `PMEG-thrashing' bug on my SparcStation IPC with 24Mb RAM. I have searched for a fix, but haven't found anything that supports the sun4c architecture. I'm running SunOS 4.1. Does anyone know where to get the older fixes? thanks, Marinos. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 15:26:38 -0500 (EST) From: bet@std.sbi.com (Bennett Todd) Subject: Archives: back issues of Suns-At-Home Digest To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Well, I finally got all the back issues. I used a little script to request them, with the requests spaced out over time (two minutes between, and I only requested 10-20 per day) so I didn't clobber anybody. Here's the heart of the script: while read d f;do echo send $d $f | Mail -s "send $d $f" suns-at-home-archives@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu echo Requested $d $f sleep 120 done That, carefully fed from a list created by editing the Index, did the trick. Now as I expected, the back issues are quite compact. Wrapped up with tar and gzip, the files look like so: -rw-r--r-- 1 bet daemon 9958 Jan 18 18:29 Index.shar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 bet daemon 45002 Feb 4 15:14 vol1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 bet daemon 37814 Feb 4 15:14 vol2.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 bet daemon 46044 Feb 4 15:14 vol3.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 bet daemon 47517 Feb 4 15:14 vol4.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 bet daemon 74215 Feb 4 15:14 vol5.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 bet daemon 79223 Feb 4 15:14 vol6.tar.gz It sure would have saved me some effort if I could have just gotten these.... If anybody else wants complete back issues, just let me know; an entire volume is small enough to be safe to mail, tar->gzip->uuencode. Can anybody put these things up for anon FTP? -Bennett bet@sbi.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 20:47:22 PST From: trost@cloud.rain.com (Bill Trost) Subject: HELP HELP on PPP To: pag@scg.boulder.co.us (Peter Gross) Peter Gross writes: PATTON_RONALD@tandem.com writes: > A little while ago I sent a message regarding the location of >PPP for the Sun 3/60 workstation. Thanks to all who responded. >I down loaded a copy of dialup PPP (dp-2.3). Everything compiled >OK. The modload appears to work fine and the dp deamon appears >to start fine but nothing works. I am clueless as to what I have >wrong in my configuration. Below is a diagram of the connection >I am attempting to set up. > |-------------------------- > | LAN 130.252.54.0 > ----|------- -------------- > |130.245.54.6| | 486 PC | > | | | DOS 6.0 | > | Sun |130.252.54.99 PPP 130.252.54.100 | FTP INC. | > | |---------------------------------------| | > | | (null modem) | | > ------------ -------------- Note with dp-2.3 (despite what the docs say) you do not need a separate IP address for each ppp connection. Thus you can use 130.245.54.6 for the Sun end of the dp link (no need to waste IP address 130.252.54.99). Actually, you can go even further than that. You can eliminate the seperate subnet all together and use something like 130.252.54.100 for the DOS box. To do this, you do the following on the Sun ifconfig dp0 130.245.54.6 130.252.54.100 arp -s 130.252.54.100 pub Where is the Ethernet address for your Sun (for example, "8:0:20:0:4d:84"). You need the arp command so that 130.245.54.1 knows to send packets destined for the PC to the Sun. The "pub" tells the Sun to publish the address. This technique is referred to as "proxy arp". (Lots of people claim to have problems finding their machine's eithernet address; I find my almost immediately by looking at the output from "dmesg". Maybe my OS is just superior to theirs.... (-: ) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 19:31:23 EST From: pirmann@cs.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann) Subject: NEC Silentwriter 95 and Sun sparcstation? To: suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Hi there, Has anyone successfully gotten a NEC Silentwriter 95f printer (built in Postscript) working with a Sun Sparcstation? I have a floor model Silentwriter (ergo no manual), and have not had any luck getting a printout other than the test page. doing a "cat file.ps >/dev/ttyb" changes the printer's display from "READY PS" to alternating "PROCESSING" and "WAITING", and when the file is finished, "WAITING" remains on the display until it times out. What is it waiting for? Relevant settings: ttyb-mode=9600,8,n,1,- ttyb-rts-dtr-off=false ttyb-ignore-cd=true Printer: Postscript, RS-232, 9600,8,n,1 Flow control: XON/XOFF (can also set to "DTR"-- doesn't work either) My tests have been conducted using "cat file >/dev/ttyb" so printcap and lpd settings are not an issue. Any help will be appreciated, Dave pirmann@cs.rutgers.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 07:42:02 -0800 From: guycole@netcom.com (Guy Cole) Subject: ST-2209N format.dat To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Does anybody have a format.dat entry for the Seagate ST-2209N drive? It is not listed in the sun-managers format.dat file on ra.mcs.anl.gov I dialed up the Seagate BBS and downloaded the specifications for this drive. Based upon that information, I tried: 1542 data cyls, 2 alt cyls, 5 heads, 45 sectors. This formats, and passes the surface analysis tests. When I write to the drive, it generates an enormous quantity of error messages. I think the drive is probably OK, but the format is wrong. Any ideas? TIA! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Guy Cole (KQ6J) * "Expert Plain And Fancy Bit Twiddling" * guycole@netcom.com Check Six! * P.O. Box 2269, Ramona, CA. 92065 * (619) 789-8106 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 17:55:29 PST From: rkou@hto.usc.edu (Roger H. Kou) Subject: SUMMARY: Sun 4/280 woe To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu, suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Hi, My original post was long, so I will just sum it up here. After the earthquake, our Sun 4/280 server started to have problem. The cpu appear to keep "turn itself off" at random; i.e., the fan and hard drives would be going, but the cpu LED would have no lights dancing on it. And that happens during the diag, after I login, just at random. Anyway, at first I just reseated everything, checked everything(connector, pins, memory chips, etc...), thinking that the problem might be with either the memory boards or the MMU. Put different combination of the memory boards in the VME box. And still get the same result. So power supply was suspected, so that was tested. And it is indeed, at least for now, the problem. It appears that 5 volt is added or substracted at random. So I guess the power surge killed the power supply. Thanks to everyone who have helped! I hope I didn't miss anyone below. And btw: Fons is right on the money about the problem. thanks. (I hope I got everyone's name right. I am sorry if I don't.) Fons Ullings, VU Amsterdam Walter Fergusson Pete Zaitcev John DiMarco Eirik Fuller Dan Schmitt Cris Rhea Linn Stanton Perry Hutchison David Reisner Alex Dumitru David Tomomatsu Tom Fisher And of course Paul Hardy best, -RK PS: does anyone know how much a power supply go for nowadays? And where should I get them? Also, any quick fixes? thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 94 10:59:54 PST From: James Smart Subject: Sun Equip 4-sale To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu I assume this information is allowed on this mailing list..... Time to clean out my garage. Summary: 1MB SIMMS (Qty 8) 300MB ESDI Disk Drives (Qty 4) Emulex MD21 ESDI<->SCSI adapters (Qty 2-4) Disk enclosures w/ power supplys and cables (Qty 2) Wangtek Tape drive and Emulex MT02 QIC<->SCSI adapter Adaptec ACB4000 MFM<->SCSI adapters (Qty 2) 9U-6U VME SCSI adapter Video/Kbd Extender Cables - 6 ft mono, 25 ft color SunOS 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.3 Doc Set SunOS 4.1 Doc Set SunOS 3.5.X & 4.0.X 1/4" Release Tapes (68020) SunOS 4.0.X 1/4" Release Tapes (SPARC) VME Deskside Enclosure If you think a price is a bit high, give me a reasonable offer. -- James (see signature below) Detailed descriptions: -------------------------------------------------- 1MB SIMMS (Qty 8) I believe they're all 80ns. Maybe a couple 100ns. Work fine in 3/60's, SS1, SS2, probably others too. PRICE: $40/SIMM + shipping -------------------------------------------------- 300MB ESDI Disk Drives (Qty 4) Emulex MD21 ESDI<->SCSI adapters (Qty 2-4) Disk enclosures w/ power supplys and cables (Qty 2) Currently in use on my system at Home. Works on sun3s, sun4s, SparcStations, etc Would like to sell the drives, adapters and enclosures together. Depending on demand (let me know if you just want a particular item), may split them up. PRICE: Looking for ~$250.00/drive + shipping. Would include enclosure, MD21, etc. -------------------------------------------------- Wangtek Tape drive and Emulex MT02 QIC<->SCSI adapter Reads and writes QIC-24 and QIC-11. Tape drive shipped on all systems prior to Sun's switch to 150MB drives PRICE: $50.00 + shipping. -------------------------------------------------- Adaptec ACB4000 MFM<->SCSI adapters (Qty 2) Lets those old PC MFM disks work on your sun. PRICE: $10.00/each + shipping -------------------------------------------------- 9U-6U VME SCSI adapter Used to adapt the old Sun "sc" or "si" SCSI controllers to the 9U form factor. PRICE: $30.00 + shipping. -------------------------------------------------- Video/Kbd Extender Cables - 1 - 6 ft Monochrome cable 1 - 25 ft Color cable PRICE: $20/each + shipping -------------------------------------------------- SunOS 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.3 Doc Set PRICE: $50.00 + shipping -------------------------------------------------- SunOS 4.1 Doc Set PRICE: $50.00 + shipping -------------------------------------------------- SunOS 3.5.X & 4.0.X 1/4" Release Tapes (68020) SunOS 4.0.X 1/4" Release Tapes (SPARC) You're responsible for the RTU's. Also have 4.0 and 3.4 in 1/2" media (68020) PRICE: MAKE OFFER + shipping -------------------------------------------------- VME Deskside Enclosure - 5 - 9U slots 4 - 6U slots Oak Cover The SUN OEM I used to work for shipped Sun 3/4's in these. I'll through in the VME backplane pieces I have as well. PRICE: $5.00 + shipping That's right - I just want to get rid of it. -------------------------------------------------- James Smart jws@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com 1825 Lucaya Ct ucsd.edu!sv001!jws Vista, CA 92083 Hm #: 619-598-1014 Wk #: 619-485-3546 Disclaimer: All that I say are my opinions only and are not representative of my employer, associations, etc. ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************