Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 20:43:48 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #7 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Fri, 24 Feb 95 Volume 8 : Issue 7 Today's Topics: Format can't find my disk.... Need to boot a Sun 3/60 off a cdrom Suns at home alternatives +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 14:48:13 -0500 From: Evan Rosser Subject: Format can't find my disk.... To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I just got a 3/260 and I'm attempting to install SunOS 4.1.1 on it. I have a Maxtor 7345S drive installed as the first device on the SCSI chain, followed by the tape drive controller. It boots fine from tape, but when I run format, it says "Searching for disks....no disks found!" This is disappointing and a little scary. Here's what I've checked: - disk SCSI ID set to 3 - disk SCSI parity off - connectors ok - disk spins up and does self test - disk does not have terminators installed When MUNIX boots it says: sd0 at sc0 slave 0 sd1 at sc0 slave 1 ....(lots more) The SunOS manual I have (4.0?) says to go into /dev and do a MAKEDEV for the disk you have, but when I do that I get lots of "mknod: file exists" messages. I don't have any way to check the disk drive, but it was working when it was last used in December. Are there any tricks to getting this to work or am I just hosed? The SCSI cable is the one that came with the machine. It is very short, and I had to do a little "creative cabling" to get it to reach all the devices. I unterminated the disk and put it in the middle of the chain, on the theory that the tape controller (since it was installed and working) was terminated properly; besides, I don't have any docs for it and I don't know how to turn off the termination. Any help is appreciated! - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 09:49 EST From: darryl@dax.sai.com (Darryl Wagoner) Subject: Need to boot a Sun 3/60 off a cdrom To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I am trying to install SunOS on a 3/60 from a sun cdrom. I just don't know what device to boot off of? Could some kind sole tell me? -darryl darryl@sai.com - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 10:06:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Pete Wargo" Subject: Suns at home alternatives To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Having owned the following: -Sun 1/150 -Sun 2/120, 2/50 -Sun 3/50, 3/140, 3/160 as wells as using several mutated SPARCstations at work, I'd make my choice for home an Intel box running SOlaris x86 2.4... I have a few up & running at work (DX/2-66's & Pentium-90's), and they run well. Plus, Until Feb. Sun is running a promo: The x86 Developer's pack, including OS, C, C++, Proworks, and Groupware for $695. A DX/2-66 runs fine (I recommend 32M of ram.), use a 17" monitor and 1g IDE drive - (By coincidence, what I have our atlanta developer run) nice system. I believe the whole shebang cost: DX/2-66, 1g IDE, Local bus video, 32M RAM, around 2500 17" Acer monitor around 750 OS, 695. Add about $500 or so for a P5/90. Either way, a good variety of stuff & performance for the price. Plus. WABI is free. Just my $2*20^-2 worth. _pete - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************