Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 21:13:55 GMT From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #39 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Thu, 1 Dec 94 Volume 7 : Issue 39 Today's Topics: 3/50 SCSI problem reading dos format floppies Sun 3/80 P4 Mono frame buffer card Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #38 suns at home archive +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 23:47:05 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: 3/50 SCSI problem To: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk > Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 22:06:18 +0000 (GMT) > From: Karl Strickland > > I'm trying to connect a SCSI tape drive. Basically it doesnt work :-) > > >From the PROM diagnostics I can do a 'SCSI Bus External Loopback Test' > which reports errors: > > SCSI Loopback Error: all signals should be off(high) exp 0, obs FE > SCSI Loopback Error: Signals:ACK,BSY,SEL,ATN,REQ,MSG,C/D,I,O: exp F0, obs FE > SCSI Loopback Error: Signals:ACK,BSY,SEL,ATN,REQ,MSG,C/D,I,O: exp F, obs FE > > Does this mean anything to anyone? It mostly means that you didn't have the special SCSI loopback plug attached. What happens if you hook up the drive as SCSI ID 4, put in a tape, and run the "SCSI tape bootpath" test? - ------------------------------ Date: 26 Nov 94 00:25:04 GMT From: Jae Cho Subject: reading dos format floppies To: moderator:;@ics.uci.edu I just got myself a SPARC5 at home. Having been only an end user, I have to many things that I used to take for granted. One of those things is reading/writting dos format floppies. Since my Sparcstation is standalone without any modem, I need to bring data via floppy drive. I used program such as mtools at work, but I cannot bring those programs from my work as the computers at work do not have the floppy drives. Is there any way that I can bring the programs on dos format floppy and bring to Sparc? Thank you very much for your help. Sincerely, Jae Cho - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 12:16:56 -0600 (CST) From: gderner@empros.com (Greg Derner) Subject: Sun 3/80 P4 Mono frame buffer card To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu (suns-at-home) Greetings, I have a 3/80 with the P4 Mono Frame Buffer (501-1402) card attached. The P4 card has 2 video ports on it. They are the DB9 and the DB13W3. The mono monitor is currently attached to the DB9 port. There is no indication at boot time that anything other than the bwtwo is detected for video (ie, no cg... devices). My question. Is the DB13W3 port dead. The card appears to have all chip sockets full. I do not have a cable to test the port, but would get one if there is any chance that this port would be usefull. I would appreciate any details on this P4 card that you can supply. Thanks in advance. Greg - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 19:11:58 +1596657 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #38 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu > > 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 > > As far as I know, the 3/60 uses a Lance ethernet. This is a 7990 chip > (from AMD I think). Are you sure it isn't the actual cable tranceiver > chip that is dead? That is the DP8392 (look for it it next to the > BNC connector) > > Wilko Stupid me: look for a AM7996 chip if you want the actual thinwire tranceiver chip W. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 14:05:20 -0500 From: chang@cs.UMD.EDU (Michael Chang) Subject: suns at home archive To: Suns-at-Home-Request@ecn.purdue.edu Hello, I took the suns at home mailing list archive and waisindexed the files together at ftp.cs.umd.edu. I append the '.src' file for it, the wais database name is 'sah'. Try it and see if it works for you. mike -- (:source :version 3 :ip-address "128.8.128.8" :ip-name "ftp.cs.umd.edu" :tcp-port 210 :database-name "sah" :cost 0.00 :cost-unit :free :maintainer "root@ftp.cs.umd.edu" :keyword-list ( 50 archives com date datemon digest disk drive dwight ecn edu ee get home homedigest list mckay mon orchestra purdue re scsi subject sun suns tape tosuns ) :description "Server created with freeWAIS Release 0.3 beta on Nov 22 12:40:08 1994 by chang@cs.umd.edu Archives of the mailing list Suns-At-Home. Contains all messages from January 1988. Experimental. " ) - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************