Date: Sat, 7 Oct 95 06:50:23 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #27 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 7 Oct 95 Volume 8 : Issue 27 Today's Topics: AD: AD MMail - A WYSIWYG multi font, inline image, MIME mailer Connecting a 3/110 to a newer monitor (fwd) modem and SunOS4.1 More 3/110 questions (memory) More than 1024 cyl on Xylogics 450 SMD controller? For Sale (2nd try) Problems with serial Postscript Printer Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #26 -- printing/monitors +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 22:44:29 +0100 (BST) From: Martin R Raskovsky Subject: AD: AD MMail - A WYSIWYG multi font, inline image, MIME mailer To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Dear suns-at-home moderator. In Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #19, a reference to my ad on MMail was pub- lished in the following way: I am a one man band (more a philarmonica than a band), pro- ducing and selling my own software. I hope you will accept the following short advertising to be places in "suns-at-home". A shareware e-mail system, which I am sure, every reader of suns-at-home would appreciate knowing about. In relation to the same, here is the address of the new home page of MMail http://www.atelier.co.uk I hope you will be kind enough to let your readers know about it. Martin - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 10:00:51 CDT From: aqn@tivoli.com (Andy Nguyen) Subject: Connecting a 3/110 to a newer monitor (fwd) To: funhouse@netcom.com, suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com FYI. >The cable/converter you are looking for is sold by > Nu_Data Inc. > 32 Fairview Avenue > Little Silver, NJ 07739-9976 > 1-980-842-5757 > >The part number is > Description length order number Price > Male 13W3 to 4 Male BNC's 4 ft. 6648 $84.00 > Monitor pigtail 6 inches 6647 $74.00 > > >Hope this helps. > >-- > David Young - Eaton Corp. - dwy%etnibsd@uunet.uu.net - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 08:03:15 -0700 (MST) From: Judi Ayers Subject: modem and SunOS4.1 To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I was wondering if someone could help me get a modem working on my Sparc IPX. I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 :-/ and trying to use a US Robotics Sportster 28.8K modem attached to serial port A of the Sparc. Should 'devinfo' show its presence? I'm not seeing it and none of the obvious /dev/ devices seem to work. Thank you very much and Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 10:29:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Grover Subject: More 3/110 questions (memory) To: Dwight McKay > > 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. I just love it when I figure things out about the same time as my email hits the net :-) I have come to the conclusion that the extended memory diagnostics on the 3/110 (at lease my PROM version) don't work with more than 8 meg of memory. I now have 16mb installed (4 obo & 12 in slot 2) and sunos finds it all just fine. PS - I have a VME 4mb board for sale (cheap) if anyone is interested! Dean - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 14:05:23 -0400 From: Craig Wasson Subject: More than 1024 cyl on Xylogics 450 SMD controller? To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I am restoring a sun2/170 system. I replaced a 67meg SMD disk with a 700meg Rodime 7000 series disk. When I format it to the full 1648 cylinders, the format, label and standalone copy of the miniroot to xy0b works OK. But when I attempt to boot the miniroot it says it cannot locate the disk label. Running SunOS 3.0B (all I have!) I assume it's looking on the "last" cylinder for the label, even tho the label is also on the first. The drive has two options to implement the 11th bit of cylinder addressing, but neither seemed to help. I assume that it is not correctly decoding the cylinder address, so it's looking somewhere around cylinder 624 for the label. If I format it as having only 1024 cylinders it works just great, but I loose a few hundred meg. I have SunOS 3.0B running on it this way now. Q 1: Is it possible to make the Xylogics 450 controller access greater than 1024 cylinders on a SMD disk? Q 2: Do I need a newer version of SunOS? (any offers?) Thanks! Craig - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:04:53 +0000 From: kent@paa.com (Kent Parkinson) Subject: For Sale (2nd try) To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com [The previous copy of this message had a out-of-date mail address and was] [missing the SS2 listed below. --ddm ] Like new SPARCstation's for sale. We are in the process of reconfiguring our network and have the following equipment for sale: Sun SPARCstation IPX's w/16" color Sony monitor, 16Mb RAM, internal424Mb hard drive, internal floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, external Sony CDROM, external Archive Viper QIC-150 tape drive, all standard accesories and original packaging. Solaris 2.3 release media w/hardware updates, Administrators Answerbook, WABI 1.1, original documentation. Price: $3,200 Sun SPARCstation 2 w/16" color Sony monitor, 28Mb RAM, internal611Mb hard drive, internal floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, external Sony CDROM, external Archive Viper QIC-150 tape drive, all standard accesories and original packaging. Solaris 2.3 release media w/hardware updates, Administrators Answerbook, WABI 1.1, original documentation. Price: $3,200 SPARCbook II,s w/color LCD disply, 32Mb RAM, 640Mb internal disk, external Sony CDROM, external Archive Viper QIC-150 tape drive, all standard accesories and original packaging. Solaris 1.1 and Solaris 2.3 release media w/Administrators Answerbooks, Lotus 123, Island Productivity Series. Price: $4,300 This equipment was purchased NEW in August 1994 for a consulting project. It has been meticulously maintained in a climate controlled/UPS environment by experienced UNIX administrators. For furter information, please contact. Kent Parkinson Senior Consultant Parkinson and Associates 209 East Navajo St. West Lafayette, IN 47906-2154 Phone: (800) 292-0306 kent@paa.com - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:46:13 -0400 From: kdo@mit.edu Subject: Problems with serial Postscript Printer To: timm@mpi-sb.mpg.du, Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a DECLaser 1152 connected to ttya on a SparcStation 1 running SunOS 4.1.3, and flow control works correctly. In my /etc/printcap file I have fc#0177777:fs#01: and my eeprom, which I haven't modified, I have "ttya-mode=9600,8,n,1,-", "tya-rts-dtr-off=false", "ttya-ignore-cd=true". In my printer I have XON/XOFF flow control. It's not that clear to me why this works, but it seems that it does. However, I have another problem. If I turn off my printer, my Sparc hangs up. Presumably that's because the off printer is sending an infinite number of characters or other interrupts to the Sparc, which is thus hung handling them and not responding to anything else. Is there a software fix for this problem? Ken - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:16:48 -0500 (EST) From: rmcclint@tmasol7 (Richard McClinton) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #26 -- printing/monitors To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.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. > I've got a catalog -- New cable, 13W30 to 4-bnc, $65.00. Male or female, your choice. Ultra Spec Cable, Inc. 170 Oberlin Avenue North, Lakewood, New Jersey 08701-4548 Orders, 1800-622-2537. They have EVERYTHING in sun cables, I think.. scsi, vide, video conversions, monitor/keyboard extensions, scsi port adapters, u-name-it. Even video cables with right-angle connectors on both ends for those close-to-wall installations. Please note this is not an ad, I'm only some guy on their catalog mailing list. I think I circled a bingo card from SunExpert magazine once and now I'm friend for life or something. Large catalog, high-seeming prices. Never dealt with them, but I saw that they have what you'd be looking for, Dean. Rick McClinton TMA Corp, McLean, VA rmcclint@tmac.com - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************