Date: Mon, 23 May 94 08:48:30 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #19 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 23 May 94 Volume 7 : Issue 19 Today's Topics: Need Replacement Battery for SLC motherboard QIC-24 tape drives SCSI drives for sale Seeking SLIP, printing information Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #18 (2 msgs) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 May 94 14:05:41 PDT From: Rumi Zahir Subject: Need Replacement Battery for SLC motherboard To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu Need Replacement Battery for SLC motherboard On my SPARCstation SLC (4/20) the real-time clock has stopped working. Also some of the configuration data in the NVRAM seems to have been forgotten. Therefore, I am in search of a replacement battery/NVRAM for the SLC. Any hints where I can get one ? Second-hand SPARC shops ? Anyplace in the Bay Area will do. Thanks Rumi Zahir (rzahir@mipos2.intel.com) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 94 12:55:40 BST From: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Subject: QIC-24 tape drives To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Thanks to all the people who recommended me to obtain a tape cleaner. I used this (not much brown muck came off that I could see), and things seem better now. Charles H. Lindsey ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 May 94 11:46:28 PDT From: bwalker@antares.com (Brad Walker) Subject: SCSI drives for sale To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu Please don't flame me if you get this. I'm posting this because of other Sun people like me who might be interested in an additional SCSI drive. I recently needed an additional SCSI drive for my machine. Our local VAR had an overrun and as such I was able to pick up 2.4 GB drives cheaply. Micropolis 2.4GB drives -includes warranty -runs on any Sun workstation that has SCSI. I've tested it on my 3/160 at home. I have 2 extras, as I only needed 1 but had to pay for all 3. I paid $1200 for each. And would like to get $1300 a piece if possible. I would pay for shipping. And these are in the orginal boxes. E-mail me if interested. Thanks. -brad w. bwalker@antares.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 22:50:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: eble@reardon.freinet.de (Axel Eble) Subject: Seeking SLIP, printing information To: davido@phoenix.princeton.edu Hi David, whether you have to rebuild a kernel depends. I believe you are running SunOS 4.1.X with X possibly 3. There is a modloadable SLIP where you don't have to build a new kernel. This would be CSlip 2.6 or 2.7 with the modload- patches. This simply installs a loadable kernel module. The only thing you can't do is unload the module (which you should be able to). But then, you can't have everything. I'm quite satisfied with it. It won't autodial if a packet is destined to go over a non-active slip link but at least it does it's job well. The package should be available at your nearest ftp server ;o) or from ftp.informatik.uni-freiburg.de. Remember, this is transatlantic link so please only use it during our night time and only if you don't find the software anywhere nearer to you. As to your printer problem: You need of course a special cable since the mac printers usually have some kind of 5-ping round plugs whereas the suns tend to have a 25 pin sub-d plug. I might be able to find this out for you if no- body else answers. Regards, Axel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:34:27 +0200 From: Thomas Tornblom Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #18 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Date: Fri, 13 May 94 09:46:18 EDT From: "David Lawrence Oppenheimer" Subject: Seeking SLIP, printing information To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I have two questions about setting up a Sun (SS5 in this case): (1) I would like to use SLIP as my network connection. I currently am using SLIP on a Macintosh. I have a modem, and a cable which connects the modem to the Mac serial port. What additional hardware and/or software will I need to use SLIP with the Sun? Does the SS5 have SLIP built into the kernel? Does it come with software to dial and establish the SLIP link? I assume the SS5 runs Solaris 2.3. Solaris 2.3 doesn't have SLIP support, although it has asynch PPP. You could run PPP on the Mac. If anyone has a working SLIP implementation I'm interested in checking it out. One of my colleagues runs som old SVR3 PC that does SLIP but not PPP. (2) I have an AppleTalk PostScript printer (Apple Personal LaserWriter NT) which I would like to use with my Sun. Do I need any special cables and/or software to use this printer? Can I use a non-Appletalk PostScript printer (like the LaserWriter Select 310) with the Sun? If the Personal LW only has LocalTalk I think the only practical solution is to get a LocalTalk SBUS card with software. I think Helios has a board. If the port can be switched to asynch mode you could hook it to one of the serial ports. If the SS5 has a parallel port you can connect the LW 310 directly to it. I have one of these on my 386i and it works pretty well. The 310 does have both a serial and a parallel port. It listens to both after power on and uses whichever shows any sign of life. Unfortunately it listens to the serial port at 57.6 kbps, which is a non supported speed on suns. If however it has selected the parallel port, the serial port is set to 9600 bps. It still listens on both, so after the parallel port has been selected, one can still feed data through the serial port. It doesn't arbitrate the ports so you can't have two computers talking to it at the same time. It is unfortunate that the 310 doesn't have any NVRAM where the configuration can be setup. Thomas ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 20:23:17 +0200 From: peter@sunflower.sub.org (Peter Dieth) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #18 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Howdy, > (1) I would like to use SLIP as my network connection. I currently am using > SLIP on a Macintosh. I have a modem, and a cable which connects the modem to > the Mac serial port. What additional hardware and/or software will I need to > use SLIP with the Sun? Does the SS5 have SLIP built into the kernel? Does it > come with software to dial and establish the SLIP link? It depends on the OS running on your SS5. SunOS4.1.3 (Solaris1.1) and SunOS5.3 (Solaris2.3) DO NOT have builtin SLIP support. If you are running SunOS4.1.3, you can add slip functionality to your kernel with the "cslip" package (ftp.berkeley.edu). IMHO the current version of cslip is 2.7. BTW: If you have problems to build a new kernel or to configure this package => email me. If you are running SunOS2.3 you loose. :-) (BTW: I don't know exactly if there is a free slip package for Solaris2.3). If you want to spend a few hundred dollars you can get the nice MorningStar PPP package that features a good ppp and slip implementation. > (2) I have an AppleTalk PostScript printer (Apple Personal LaserWriter NT) > which I would like to use with my Sun. Do I need any special cables and/or > software to use this printer? Can I use a non-Appletalk PostScript printer > (like the LaserWriter Select 310) with the Sun? If you want to print over appletalk, you could try to run CAP (columbia apple talk) on your machine. It implements Appletalk on the Unix OS and allows Apple Macintoshes to use Unix machines as file/print server. I don't know if this printer has a serial or parallel port, which would be easiest way to connect the printer to the SS5. Ciao, Peter ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************