Date: Mon, 7 Nov 94 08:28:23 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #37 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 7 Nov 94 Volume 7 : Issue 37 Today's Topics: ethernet on a 3/60 SLIP for 2.x Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #36 Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #36 (IP[CX]/L[CX] lookalike SCSI enclosure ?) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 16:08:32 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew G Newcomb Subject: ethernet on a 3/60 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu G'day, Does anyone know which chip on the 3/60 is the ethernet controller chip? I think mine has gone bad. It is not the fuse.. The chip transmits but does not recieve. Thanks for any help.. Matt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 11:16 PST From: danny@TFS.COM (Danny Reid) Subject: SLIP for 2.x To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I know that Solaris 2.x comes with PPP, but does anyone have or know of a working SLIP for Solaris 2.3 and 2.4. Danny E. Reid danny@tfs.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 10:23:40 MST From: castalia@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu (Bradford Castalia) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #36 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu A small, but significant, comment on the excellent description of the 4/110 system architecture provided by Toerless Eckert: Though the 4/110 has both thick and thin enet on the double wide motherboard, the selection of which interface to use must be made manually by a switch (it does not auto-switch). Switch J1800 (next to J800) on the edge of the motherboard right behind the enet connectors should be ON to select AUI. We have three 4/110 systems here (they've been solid workstations) which were tested by our vendor (Solar Systems of Redmond, WA) via thin enet. When we recieved them and plugged them into our thick enet they failed to boot (SunOS 4.1.1). When the vendor's tech support people told us about this switch the system functioned just fine. Brad Castalia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 19:41:02 -0800 From: mikep@Polo.NET (Michael Polo) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #36 (IP[CX]/L[CX] lookalike SCSI enclosure ?) To: Suns-at-Home-List@ecn.purdue.edu, Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Toerless Eckert Wrote: > Hi > > Can someone recoomend me a company where i can get an enclosure for 1 FH > external 5 1/4" SCSI drive or 2 * 5 1/4" HH SCSI drives ? I am looking > for an enclosure that has the same size as the sparcstation IPC/IPC/LC/LX > so that it will fit neatly to it. All the enclosures i've found so far > are either at least one centimeter more wide or smaller and always > higher and most times deeper. Sun itself doesn's seem to sell these > enclosure empty, but they do have the exact enclosure for their external > 8mm exabyte for example. If you buy that enclosure as spare parts it > costs you well 800$ (*grin*). Well, any help welcome. I admit that i usually > don't look for a neat fit with computer enclosures but with this neat little > LX i got lately for private use i'd just very much like to keep the extension > boxes in line with the main unit. > > Thanks You know, I bought an enclosure for a CD-ROM drive here that enclosed a 1/2 5 1/4" device for $99.00. (they sold a 5 1/4" full height box for $149) I bought it at the Sunnyvale NCA. It was about 1/2 cm narrower than my IPC, but it worked just fine... except... Well, first, the IPC uses scsi-II cables, and this device used centronics scsi cables. So I had to buy a scsi->centronics cable + a centronics terminator. Whoops! Then I had to return it because my other external drive case already used scsi-II to DB-50 (is this a shoebox? it's about 18" long, 7" wide and 9" tall). I had to get a DB-50 to centronics connector and return the other one. Well, in the end, it just didn't match up to the sun stuff. It's cheaper, but my sun and external disk drive have been on continuously for over 2 years with no problem. I finally just shut down the cd-rom drive because of the fan. I think this pc-quality stuff just isn't rated for continuous duty. The fan started getting noisier and noisier. Then it started speeding up and slowing down, and finally it seemed like it was barely turning. Anyway, it works for me, but I've learned: - not continuously, which is ok for a cdrom, but not a drive - watch the cables - get the right adapters. Mike ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************