Date: Tue, 6 Dec 94 06:13:56 GMT From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #40 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Tue, 6 Dec 94 Volume 7 : Issue 40 Today's Topics: Connecting an HP DeskJet to a Sparc-2 Sbus serial expansion card SPARC5 tape, floppies, modem Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #39 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 94 21:08:11 EST From: wizvax!falstaff!swt (Steve Turner) Subject: Connecting an HP DeskJet to a Sparc-2 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I have a Sparc-2 at home, and I'm looking to buy a printer for it. I'm pretty well sold on the HP DeskJet-540, because it seems to match my needs well. I print mainly black and white, with occasional color, all in low (< 300pg/mo) volume. The question is: how would I connect it? The Sparc doesn't have a parallel port, and I don't want to spring for a JetDirect card to give the 540 and ethernet port. Does the 540 have a serial interface option? The OfficeMax salesman I spoke to said no, but that seems unlikely to me. Does anyone have any experience using a DeskJet via a serial interface? It seems I can use ghostscript to translate my postscript documents into something that a DeskJet can understand, but how to convince lpr that /dev/ttya is a printer port - could I just make /dev/lp a link that points to it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Steve Wilson Turner (swt@uiuc.edu swt@wizvax.com swt@panix.com) - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 22:18:57 +0500 From: bimbo!boyter (Brian Boyter) Subject: Sbus serial expansion card To: hqda-ai!ecn.purdue.edu!suns-at-home Magma sells a 2 serial + 1 parallel Sbus expansion card for $275.... Artecon sells a 3 serial + 1 parallel Sbus expansion card for $495.... Does anyone have any experiences (ggod or bad) with either of these products??? Is there a better serial expansion option??? I'm running Solaris 2.3 on a Sparc 1 if that's an issue... Thanks, Brian boyter@pentagon-gw.army.mil - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 10:20:07 -0500 From: "David P. Kemp" Subject: SPARC5 tape, floppies, modem To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu Jae Cho writes: > I just got myself a SPARC5 at home. > [ . . . ] > Is there any way that I can bring the programs on dos format > floppy and bring to Sparc? I have been using a SPARC5 at home for a while, and generally use tar format floppies to transfer data rather than dos format. But if you need to use dos, there are at least 3 ways to do it: 1) use mtools, as you mentioned. (I've never seen any reason to use mtools, though) 2) use the volume manager. Just type "volcheck" and the volume manager will determine if the floppy is dos formatted, and mount it for you if so. If it doesn't find a filesystem (as with tar floppies) it will ask you if you want to format the floppy - at that point you must JUST SAY NO! :-) 3) disable the volume manager for floppies (you will still want it for CDROMs) and mount the floppy by hand. As root, add a line to /etc/vfstab that mounts a dos floppy (FileSystem type "pcfs") on a mount point of your own choosing - /pcfs is as good as any. Then to mount a dos floppy, just type "mount /pcfs" from a root window, and "umount /pcfs" when you're done. I recommend using the volume manager, but SunPC is not compatible with it for some reason. If you need to run SunPC (the dos emulator), you'll have to do floppy mounts by hand. Dave Kemp - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 09:03:35 -0600 (CST) From: aqn@tivoli.com (Andy Nguyen) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #39 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu > From: Jae Cho > Subject: reading dos format floppies > > Since my > Sparcstation is standalone without any modem, ... > ...the computers at > work do not have the floppy drives. If your machine does not have a modem, and the machines at work do not have floppy drives, then it looks like your only choice is to buy a 1/4" SCSI tape drive and lug it back and forth between home & work. I did this myself for quite a while before I got a PPP connection. Of course, if the machines at work can be reached via modem, you may want to get a modem instead. -- Andy Nguyen \ Tivoli Systems, Austin, TX \ 512.502.4629 \ aqn@tivoli.com - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************