Date: Sat, 11 Mar 95 16:37:53 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #9 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 11 Mar 95 Volume 8 : Issue 9 Today's Topics: Archive tape drive, model 9020 I Disk Questions PC Floppy drive on a sun? reference for cslip 2.7 under SunOS 4.1.3 (2 msgs) Sun CD-ROM upgrades Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #8 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 16:27 EST From: jimc@zachary.riva.com (James E. Carpenter) Subject: Archive tape drive, model 9020 I To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I just got a 2/120 that came with an Archive tape drive, model 9020 I. It appears that the tape drive isn't working properly. So I've got two questions: 1. What is this drive capable of? (format, capacity, etc.) 2. What is the going price for it? I'd really like to get another one so I can install SunOS 4.0.3. (I'm stuck with 3.2 for now.) Thanks for any info! Jim - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 95 12:37:34 +0000 From: kevanh@lsl.co.uk Subject: Disk Questions To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Hello There, I have two questions to ask, both of which are disk related. Firstly I want to add a second Micropolis 1558 ESDI disk into one of my shoe-box disk units that already has one of these types of drive in it. I have got an extended 34way ribbon cable to daisy chain the drive, does it have to have any sort of twist in it? (like PC floppy disks) Are there any jumpers that need changing on the Emulex controler card? Are there any jumpers on the disks that need changing? Secondly I am trying to connect an old HP97536SP(330Mb) disk directly onto the scsi bus. After setting jumpers on the disk, connecting to the scsi bus, and checking termination is correct I booted the machine. It booted off sd0 ok but when it came to finding disks it got to sd6 (scsi id 3) and gave this error: sd6 at sw0 slave 24 sw0: sw_cmdwait: dma never completed sw0: resetting scsi bus last phase= 0x4 (DATA IN) csr= 0x1405 bcr= 0 tc= 0 cbsr= 0x65 (DATA IN) cdr= 0x0 mr= 0x2 bsr= 0x88 target= 3 lun= 0 DMA addr= 0xf0084c count= 512 (512) cdb= 8 0 0 0 1 0 What does this type of error normally mean? Has anybody got any ideas on what I have got configured wrong? Note: From reading some of the past Suns-At-Home messages (v5n4) I don't think I have a 4/110 with the "pin 26 ground" problem, because I have an '89 machine with a serial number much higher than the quoted problem ones. Finally (ok question number 3), I maybe looking at buying a new scsi disk (~1Gb) for my 4/110 soon, so I am looking for recomendations for disks that are suitable for my machine. Many thanks in advance. -- Kevan Heydon - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 95 00:00:48 MST From: wsears@LPL.Arizona.EDU (William D. Sears) Subject: PC Floppy drive on a sun? To: sah@ecn.purdue.edu Hello, I have a surplus Chinon 1.4MB 3 1/2" (Model FZ-357) from an PC and was wandering if/how I could put it in a used Sparc II that I have at home. I've tried it in the simply manner - just plugging it in and I get "fd0: read failed (40 1 0)" or "fd0: write failed (40 1 0)" followed by "bad format" when I try anything - including using mtools or fdformat. Any help or clues would be very appreciated. I don't need auto-sense, etc, I just need 1.44 PC format drives reading, though writing would be nice. Thanks in advance, Wm. Sears wsears@lithos.jpl.nasa.gov - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 21:20:54 PST From: starnet!bass!lakin@apple.com (Fred Lakin) Subject: reference for cslip 2.7 under SunOS 4.1.3 To: kykim@access.digex.net Kevin wrote: I've been trying to install cslip-2.7 on my Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1.1_U1, and run into some problems. I too have been struggling with cslip, and recently found a reference book that might be of help to you. The second edition of the UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION HANDBOOK by Nemeth et all, from Prentice Hall, has 6 pg, 22 step section entitled "Walkthrough: Installing SLIP on SunOS". They describe installation of cslip-2.7 on an IPX under 4.1.3 . Some of the steps are just copied from the README, but they also include some other details not covered there. Obviously the problem you are having may be 3/60 specific, but in case not, the book might provide some clues. regards, -f Fred Lakin :: lakin@pgc.com :: http://www.pgc.com - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 09:58:11 -0500 From: kykim@access.digex.net (kevin kim) Subject: reference for cslip 2.7 under SunOS 4.1.3 To: lakin@pgc.com At 09:20 PM 3/6/95 PST, lakin@pgc.com wrote: >Kevin wrote: > > I've been trying to install cslip-2.7 on my Sun 3/60 running SunOS > 4.1.1_U1, and run into some problems. > >I too have been struggling with cslip, and recently found a >reference book that might be of help to you. The second >edition of the UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION HANDBOOK by yeah, i have the first edition of this book and flipped through the 2nd edition in the store. i eventually got everything working. have you? thanks, -kevin kykim@access.digex.net - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:32:38 +0500 From: jerry.springer@valcom.com (Jerry Springer) Subject: Sun CD-ROM upgrades To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I have a Sun CDROM desktop pack at home. It is one of the older models. It is a Sonu CDU-8012. I would like to upgrade it hopefully by just swapping the CD unit itself while keeping the desktop unit. I would like one of Sun's faster units. My questions are 1) Will both the Sony CDU-561 and Toshiba XM-4101B work in the older desktop packs and 2) Does anyone know of an upgrade package either from Sun or from anyone else? Thanks - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 18:41 PST From: jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com (James W. Birdsall) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #8 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu >From: Jacob C Freifeld >Subject: Sun2 boot trouble > >I just got some boot tapes from Benji Cline (thanks again!) and I am >trying to boot a sun2/170 from scsi tape. The tape drive I have >attached is a PC 540 meg scsi tape drive, and it is plugged into the >scsi controller in slot 11. Does the slot matter? > >When the machine boots, it checks it's ram fine, and enters the rom >monitor, but then I can't get it to see the tape drive and boot from >it. I have tried "b st(0,0,0)", "b st(0,1,0)", etc. Well, I have a 2/120 (same CPU board as the 2/170) with ROM revision R and as far as I've been able to experiment, it will only tape-boot from a QIC-11 drive hooked up to a Sysgen SC4000 SCSI/QIC-02 controller. It does not like a QIC-24 drive hooked up to an Emulex MT-02 card (the standard for Sun-3 tape drives). I'd be very surprised if it even recognized your tape drive as being a tape (you do have it set for SCSI ID 4, right?). You can find the Sun-recommended card configurations in the Sun Hardware Reference, available via anonymous ftp from ftp.netcom.com:/pub/ru/rubicon/sun.hdwr.ref. It make take some persistence, the machine is frequently overloaded. --James - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************