Date: Sat, 13 May 95 14:19:43 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #14 To: Suns-at-Home-List@ecn.purdue.edu Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 13 May 95 Volume 8 : Issue 14 Today's Topics: Archive 5945/Emulex MT-02 on a 2/120 CGTWO in 3/140 Memory for Sparc2 Memory Speed for SS1 and SS2 Mosaic Net sold Hitachi CDR-1750S not working, ideas? question about power needs at home Sun 2/120 transient parity and bus protection errors Web browser for Sun 3 (Re: Mosaic in Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #13) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 21:07:47 -0400 (EDT) From: jimc@zachary.riva.com (James E. Carpenter) Subject: Archive 5945/Emulex MT-02 on a 2/120 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I just bought a QIC-24 Archive 5945 drive with an Emulex MT-02 controller for my Sun 2/120. I've got two questions.... Has anybody got this tape & controller working with a 2/120 and if so, how did you do it? By disabling SCSI parity on the Emulex MT-02 I can use 'mt' to rewind and retention the tape. But that's about it. I can't read one bit of data off a QIC-24 or a QIC-11 tape. And if I try to boot a QIC-24 or QIC-11 tape I get sense error. On my Emulex MT02 there are two LEDs. One red, one green. The red one goes on when a tape is loaded. The green one blinks most of the time. It stops blinking briefly when I have the tape drive do something. I'm pretty sure that nothing is wrong with the drive. It's brand new. And yes.... I did remember that the normal tape power connector is 24VDC and not 12VDC. And I do know that I need some newer ROMs to be able to boot QIC-24. Thanks much! Jim - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 20:30:45 -0400 From: jag@spaceheater.brownout.com (Jeremy A. Green) Subject: CGTWO in 3/140 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I am trying to use a cgtwo as an xterminal for a 3/260 because the 3/260 is incredibly loud so I have it tucked away in a closet... anyway, I wanted to have color video on the 3/140 so I am trying to put a cgtwo in it (501-1116). When I boot the 3/140, it doesn't seem to see the cgtwo. It only lists the builtin bwtwo. I have fiddled around with the jumpers on the backplane and I have tried different kernels besides the generic one that comes on the sunos 4.1.1 cdrom. The cgtwo is the only vme board in the 3/140 besides the motherboard. Does anyone know if it is possible to get a cgtwo to work in a 3/140? Thanks, -Jeremy - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 12:51:56 -0400 From: Scott Ballantyne Subject: Memory for Sparc2 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Can anyone give me some hints/pointers to a reasonably priced memory upgrade for my sparc2? I remember that the 3/60's could use pretty inexpensive IBMpc simms, but I don't think this is true for the Sparcs. I'd appreciate vendor recommendations too, if you want to mail me directly I'll summarize for the list. Thanks in advance, Scott -- sdb@ssr.com - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 01:30:42 -0400 From: earl@baugh.org (Earl Baugh) Subject: Memory Speed for SS1 and SS2 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Chin (and Rick) Just FYI. (according to the Field Engineer Handbook, of which I just "happen" to have a copy...yes it has lots of jumper settings for Sun 2's Sun 3's etc. I'm willing to pass along info, just as long as the questions don't get overwhelming...) The speed recommended for SS1's is only 100ns. Amazing but true. Anything faster than that (at least to 70ns) seems to work just fine (I've got a SS1 with 32MB, all 4x9 70ns, of recent vintage...i.e. last 6 mths, and all is just working fine). For SS2's the speed recommended was 80ns if memory serves me (according to a friend's FE Handbook [Mine goes from Sun 2 to 4/65, his goes til SS10)) I was just looking at this when I bought the 32MB, since I wanted to confirm what I had I could "use" when I go to a SS2. 80ns or faster should be just fine. At work I've got a SS2 that has 80's and 70's and it performs just fine. Remember, it HAS to be Nx9 (N = 1 or 4) since the Sun uses the parity bit. You can't turn this off (to my knowledge) like you can with newer PC BIOS's. BTW, According to my FE Handbook, it doesn't describe mixing 4mb and 1mb SIMMs. Have others out there done this? Any suprises with it? I'm actually suprised this works, but I guess if you don't mix banks I could see how it might. You're 1's are in either bank 0 or bank 3, correct? Not in one of the middle banks? Oh, btw, Simmens simms were the common chips that Sun used in the SS1s. I just sold a whole bunch of them...(52 as a matter of fact) and all of them were from SS1's and SS1+'s, and 90% were of Simmens manufacture. 'later Earl D. Baugh Jr. Internet : earl@baugh.org (yes I'm my own domain...) - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 13:35:38 -0700 From: dhw@filoli.com Subject: Mosaic To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu >Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 17:08:33 -0400 (EDT) >From: "John H. Sherk" >Subject: Mosaic >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. There is a Sun3 FTP site; I have retrieved Mosaic from it (and used it successfully, though not without a couple of minor nuisances). The site is dalek.tiac.net. As usual: I have no particular interest in said site, except that I squirrled away the reference when I saw it on Wed Jan 4 21:34 PST 1995, and I have successfully used some of the stuff from that site. Oh, yes: The minor nuisances: * Mosaic complains bitterly about some sort of keyboard mapping stuff -- several lines worth. Also (if I recall correctly) about inability to locate certain fonts. * Seems that one of the things that isn't mapped (correctly?) is the key that is intended to back up one character. Thus, a certain degree of either accuracy or apathy is encouraged as one fills out a form.... :-} Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@filoli.com - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 00:41:02 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: Net sold Hitachi CDR-1750S not working, ideas? To: nathan@seldon.terminus.com > Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 23:10:37 -0700 (PDT) > From: Number 6 > > Just wondering if anyone has any experience with those $69.00 CD-ROMs ... > 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.) ... > 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. Not all versions of the 1750S firmware support the 512/2048 switch, and one can hope that the back-panel labelling reflects the difference. The one I have here documents the switch, and works with an SS2; it reports the following during probe-scsi: Removable Read Only device HITACHI CDR-1750S 0013 The 0013 relates to the firmware revision level. If your newly- acquired but non-working drives have a different code there, they may need an upgrade. I don't know how you would go about getting one, short of cloning ROMs from a working drive. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 10:48:52 -0400 From: gcd@chandra.bgsu.edu (Comer Duncan) Subject: question about power needs at home To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu For those who read this list, many probably have Suns at home. I am wondering what are such people's experiences with power needs at home? Do you leave the machine on most of the time or do you turn it off and on several times a week? I am concerned about both since it would appear that just plugging the machine plus disk[s] into a standard 115v, 60Hz outlet might be a problem, given that most circuit breakers on home circuits has a 15 amp fuse. Now I expect that the newer Suns [eg the SS1] as opposed to the older [say Sun3] will run a lower power and may not be as much of a concern. But, I'd like some information from those in the trenches. My question about how often the machines are turned on and off has to do with a feeling that power supplies don't appreciate being turned on and off and so will not last as long with the practice of say turning the machine on at night after work and turning it off before retiring, and repeating this day after day. I am visiting these primitive questions because it now seems that the prices of used SS1 machines are getting almost affordable. However, given that such a machine would be at home and not supported by Sun it seems a good idea to go this route only if the investment is not likely to go up in smoke. Comer Duncan - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 22:54:46 -0400 (EDT) From: jimc@zachary.riva.com (James E. Carpenter) Subject: Sun 2/120 transient parity and bus protection errors To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu My 2/120 has two 4 meg cards in it. One I can't identify. The other is Sun #501-1232. Both have 144 256K x 1 120ns chips. The noname board is the first 4 megs. The Sun memory has jumpers on pins 9 & 10 and 11 & 12. This brings the total to 6 MBs. I'd really really like to have 7 or 8 megs seeing that I'm going to be running SunOS 4.0.3. (I know.... it's REAL slooow. I gotta try it anyway.) The Sun Hardware Guide says I can have 8 MB if I remove the video card, which I have. I know the jumper settings to make the Sun memory be the first 4 megs. But I can't get the noname card to be the next 4 megs. :-( I've also tried putting jumpers on pins 13 & 14 (in addition to 9&10 and 11&12) on the Sun memory. This gets the banner to say that 7 MBs are in. But then I get a parity error (transient?) message every now and then and I can never do a reboot. It complains about a Bus Protection Error. So does anyone know what's going on? It looked like I was doing right by jumpering 13 & 14 on the Sun memory but then I get all these errors. And is there a way to make Sun part 501-1232 be the last 4 (not 3) megs of memory? Could this be cause because I'm mixing a noname card with a Sun card? Thanks for any help. Jim - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 16:32:25 -0400 From: Evan Rosser Subject: Web browser for Sun 3 (Re: Mosaic in Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #13) To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I don't have a binary of Mosaic, but I have an alternative for you. I use chimera, a web browser that doesn't need Motif. It uses the Athena widgets instead. It works fine for me, and wasn't hard to set up under X11R6. I got it from ftp://ftp.isri.unlv.edu/pub/chimera. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************