Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 09:33:15 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #10 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 7 Mar 94 Volume 7 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: 3/60 19in color monitor wanted Floppy drive on a 3/80 Fwd: ["David Herron" : SCSI but out of phase (phase error)] Simple Database programs? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 18:19:13 -0400 (EDT) From: GEOSH@antioc.antioch.edu Subject: 3/60 19in color monitor wanted To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I'm looking for a 365-1056 19 in color monitor to use with a cgfour framebuffer and my sun 3/60. This is the kind with the 4 bnc connectors. Geosh Antioc College geosh@antioch.edu geosh@bokonon.antioch.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 10:20:13 GMT From: Iain A F Fleming Subject: Floppy drive on a 3/80 To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu, comp.sys.sun.hardware@news.demon.co.uk According to the comp.sys.sun.hardware FAQ: > The 3/80 has . . . 3.5 inch 1.44 meg floppy drive . . . Now, my 3/80 doesn't have a 3.5 inch floppy drive. So I want to fit one. This leads me to these questions: 1) What type (make, model, etc) of floppy drive do I need? - obviously *any* 3.5 inch floppy drive won't do, as it needs auto-eject, and I don't want to hack up the casing. 2) What are the pin-outs of the board connector? (I presume its the 2-row pin array beside the empty sled). Also, can anyone supply me with any technical data on the 3/80 - Sun white papers, etc? Thanks, -- Iain A F Fleming f90 Compiler Development Group NAG Ltd Oxford UK iainf@nag.co.uk tel: +44.865.511245 x255 fax: +44.865.311205 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 12:30:28 PST From: "David Herron" Subject: Fwd: ["David Herron" : SCSI but out of phase (phase error)] To: "Suns@Home" Greetings! I am a member of this list but subscribed from my home system. Unfortunately, as described in the following, my home system is dead. If someone can provide some advice you'll need to respond to david@twg.com since my home address (david@davids.mmdf.com) is dead and thus I won't be able to see an answer there or in the mailing list until the system comes back to life..... David From: "David Herron" Subject: SCSI but out of phase (phase error) Greetings! The other night my home SPARCStation (A SSII clone motherboard) went weird on me. The console was printing messages about the SCSI bus being out of phase, and one of the tape drives (standard Sun 60 meg SCSI that's an Archive tape hanging off an Emulex MT-02 controller) was repeatedly retensioning the tape cassette. At some moment the system decided to panic and reboot. I don't remember the exact wording of any of the error messages, unfortunately. However now if the system is booted while one of the disk drives, the boot drive unfortunately, is connected to the SCSI bus the system refuses to boot. The actions are the following: When the system is turned on there's a message about which CPU and HOSTID. Then almost immediately is a message like "SCSI phase error (e0000000)". I' m 90% certain the `e0000000' is correct but might be off in the number of 0's. Then it checks memory. Then it prints a summary of the SBUS devices (a CG3 and a Magma 2S+1P card). Then, after a longish pause, it prints another message about the boot device not working and more about phase errors on the SCSI bus. Don't have particulars on this message handy... (It's two lines of text though ...) The SCSI bus contains boot disk 600 meg Seagate 5 1/4" FH drive that is ~ 3 years old Physically located in a PC-XT style case that's been used to hold the disk drives for various systems over the years. The latest configuration of the system necessitated I run this w/o the cover. disk 500 meg Fujitsu 3.5" drive that's ~ 1 year old. Physically located inside the SSII box tape Traditional Sun 60 meg tape drive that's a HH Archive drive with a HH frame holding the Emulex MT-02 controller card. Physically located in the PC-XT case. This drive has been reliable but slow and small. tape Archive DAT drive that is new to me but was refurbished Physically located in the PC-XT case. This drive has not been very reliable. cdrom Sun CD-ROM drive in its own personal pizza size box. Swapping devices in and out narrows it down to the boot disk which is having problems. So long as the boot disk is NOT in the system then the phase errors do NOT happen. Any combination of the system which DOES have the boot disk on the bus DOES have the phase errors. I've never seen this message before. I don't know what it is supposed to mean. Unfortunately the system backups are rather old. The most recent ones were done with the DAT drive. But, as I say, that drive hasn't been reliable and attempting to read from that drive last night gave me an I/O error. (I'd booted off the SunOS distribution tape). Can anybody give some advice??? Thanks, David ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 11:38:13 EST From: pirmann@cs.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann) Subject: Simple Database programs? To: suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Hi, I'm looking for a simple database program that can handle relatively simple tasks like address list management, keep track of my CD collection, etc. I used to use "Appleworks" on an Apple IIgs to do this and was happy with its features. Is there anything comparable out there on the net for the Sparcstation? (I'm also going to look into the Apple II emulator that's out there. If anyone has this working let me know...) thanks! Dave ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************