Date: Sat, 30 Sep 95 07:39:42 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #26 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 30 Sep 95 Volume 8 : Issue 26 Today's Topics: Connecting a 3/110 to a newer monitor More 3/110 questions (memory) Problems with serial Postscript Printer +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 8:35:09 CDT From: aqn@tivoli.com (Andy Nguyen) Subject: Connecting a 3/110 to a newer monitor To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com, funhouse@netcom.com Dean Grover wrote: > >I've got a sun 3/110 with a cgfour frame buffer that has the BNC connectors >for RGBS, and I would like to connect it to a monitor I have that has >the 13W3 connector on back. Is there an adapter cable for this ? >Does anyone have one for sale, or know if this will work ? > >The monitor is a Sony 1604A15 (sun part number 365-1063-01) It is possible and I have seen it done. The connector you want is a 4 BNC -> DB13W3. The one that I saw connected a Sparc IPC (?) to a Sun3 Hitachi monitor. Sorry, I do not know where you can buy one, but I suspect that one of the used equipment dealers will have one. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 00:57:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Grover Subject: More 3/110 questions (memory) To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I just picked up a 12mb VME memory board from Helios and was trying to get it to work in my 3/110. So far, the system diagnostics manage to find all 16mb, but when I run the extended memory test (with the CPU switched to DIAG instead of BOOT), it gives me some kind of page exception after 8mb. Here is my working system setup: 3/110 cpu with 4mb memory (slot 1) 4mb memory board (slot 2) SCSI-2 controller (sc) (slot 3) This is what I'm testing: 3/110 cpu with 4mb memory (slot 1) 12mb Helios memory (slot 2) SCSI-2 controller (slot 3) For the fun of it, I replaced the 3/110 CPU with a 3/140 CPU that also had 4mb memory. The PROM diagnostics didn't have an extended memory test, but I decided to boot the system anyway. That seems to work. I'm going to try a few more tests with the 3/110 cpu, but I'd be interested in hearing from people who have 3/110s with more than 8 mb memory. Thanks! Dean - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 11:46:28 +0100 From: timm@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Jan G. Timm) Subject: Problems with serial Postscript Printer To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, I'm desperately trying to use a QMS-PS410 with my SUN IPX: The Sun IPX is running Solaris 2.4, I tried the Solaris lp system (with lp jumbo patch #6) as well as the BSD lpr system for Solaris. The problem is always the same: When I print more then 5 or 6 pages the job gets stuck or the last pages get lost. I tried lots of combinations of stty settings, eeprom settings and printer settings (flow control etc), but nothing helped. I checked the cable more than once... It's a null modem cable with hardware flow control. Is there anybody using succesfully a QMS-PS410 or any old postscript printer under Solaris or SunOS (connected with a serial cable) ? I'm interested in: The eeprom settings (ttya-rts-dtr-off, ttya-ignore-cd, ttya-mode), the jumper settings in the Sun (RS232 or RS423), the combination of printer settings and printcap entry (or stty options) and the timeout settings on the printer. Thanks a lot for any help... I wasted at least 500 pages and hours of testing! Jan - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************