Date: Sun, 23 Apr 95 06:51:23 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #13 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 23 Apr 95 Volume 8 : Issue 13 Today's Topics: Mosaic Net sold Hitachi CDR-1750S not working, ideas? Re: Reasonable prices for shoebox and Sun CDROM? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 17:08:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "John H. Sherk" Subject: Mosaic To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Has anyone compiled the sources for Mosaic on Sun3/60 SUNOS4.1.1? If so, I'd really appreciate it if I could get the binary. I don't have access to Motif libraries so cannot compile it on my machine. ...john - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 23:10:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Number 6 Subject: Net sold Hitachi CDR-1750S not working, ideas? To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu Just wondering if anyone has any experience with those $69.00 CD-ROMs that have been floating around that the sellers claim to work with Suns. I bought four of them, and none of the four I ordered will work with my SS1. (I do have a previously purchased Hitachi 1750S that works fine, so it must be me.) Here's what I'm trying to do: I put the new 1750S at SCSI-ID five, which is normally the second tape drive. Then I reconfig'd the kernel to tell it this was sr1 at target 5. I made the appropriate device nodes, trying many combinations. When I try to mount, I get "block overrun", indicative of a drive not supporting 512 byte blocks. However, the block select switch (not documented on the NEW 1750S I got, but documented on the OLD one I have) is set to 512 bytes. The CD-ROM will mount, but many of the directories on this particular ISO-9660 disk are missing. (And I get an overrun everytime I try to access a file.) Other interesting point: the SS1 apparently sends out a "NOP" to the drive as it boots. The drive doesn't like that, apparently. Does this mean despite my kernel reconfig, the Sun still thinks it's a tape drive? (I did reconfig right, I'm pretty sure, since the drive "sorta works" and popping in a tape drive at ID 5 does NOT work.) Real question, I guess: did I do it right to add a second CD-ROM to a desktop Sparc, since in the kernel config it says the second CD-ROM is to be on the second SCSI-bus, which I don't have. (But the drive is accessed, and does mount, even with my single bus.) *************************************************************************** Nathan Lane, President, Second Foundation Internet Services. Lompoc, CA North Santa Barbara County Onramp to the Infobahn. (805) 733-1849 for sales, service and support. *************************************************************************** - ------------------------------ Date: Mon Apr 10 09:09:07 1995 From: (Richard McClinton) Subject: Re: Reasonable prices for shoebox and Sun CDROM? To: >Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:10:34 -0800 (PST) >From: yqq4163@auspex-c-e1.rdyne.rockwell.com >Subject: Reasonable prices for shoebox and Sun CDROM? >To: Suns-At-Home@ecn.purdue.edu > ... (Sorry, don't know used tape/CD prices..) >One more question. I just replaced a nvram in my SS1. Other than >having to reset some values using the eeprom command, everything works >out OK. However, I noticed something interesting. My SS1 has got 24 >MEG on the motherboard, 16 MEGs of them are - 70ns - type made by >Simmens, Germany. It looks like these memory chips were added in by >the previous owner of my SS1 when higher speed memory was cheap. I >wonder whether these chips are fast enough for SS2 CPU? >... >Chin Fang >yqq4163@sunshine.rdyne.rockwell.com Hi, Chin. I have a SS2 with 24M. 16M, in 4 - 4M Simms, I believe is original; and I think they are in fact 70ns. I've supplemented this with 8 spare 1x9's (also 70ns) from old PC's. I have read that you must use 1x9's as opposed to 8- or 3-chip simms, but I can't recall reading anything about Dram speed. I had an additional, identical, 16M in a second SS2, but I'm using that in my PC right now. Good luck, Rick McClinton rmcclint@tmac.com - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************