Date: Sat, 28 Oct 95 07:19:21 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #30 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 28 Oct 95 Volume 8 : Issue 30 Today's Topics: Help with 500MB Fujitsu M2624FA Internet name resolution SCSI disk for sun 3/160 Setting up a SUN to access a remote network via PPP/SLIP. sun 3/60 randomly rebooting Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #29 where to buy RAM for a SPARC? xy450/1 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 95 18:52:30 CDT From: mal@winternet.com (Michael Leo) Subject: Help with 500MB Fujitsu M2624FA Hi, I can't seem to convince my 500MB Fujitsu M2624FA SCSI 1 drive it has a SCSI target other than 3. My Sun IPC has an internal drive at SCSI target 3. The Fuji Disk is mounted in an old Sun shoebox enclosure. I have tried jumpering A0-A2 in many different ways but I either get target 3 or the drive responds to ALL targets. Help me .... Help me .... Help me .... Thank you .... thank you .... thank you .... Cheers, - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:17:16 -0700 (MST) From: Judi Ayers Subject: Internet name resolution To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com (suns-at-home) Hello, I'm trying to get my Sparc IPX running SunOS 4.1.1 connected to the outside world. I'm having trouble with the name server business. I have the PPP connection to my PPP account from a local internet provider working, and I can access outside world machines as long as I know the IP address, but I can't access anything by name. The man page for 'in.named' isn't making sense for me, but that seems to be the right path. Can anyone provide some pointers? My machine is a standalone with no local network. Thanks very much and Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers, Phoenix, AZ ayers@primenet.com - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 19:14:19 -0700 (MST) From: tom@as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) Subject: SCSI disk for sun 3/160 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Well, I hope this is the right way to make a submission to this mailing list. Is this available as a mailing list as well as the digest form?? Now, the subject of my question. I just acquired a sun 3/160 It used to have a 150M ESDI on a MD21 SCSI/ESDI adapter, but both of those had been yanked before I passed into my hands. No worry, I have a 300M Wren-IV handy and that bolted into place after some fussing around. I set it up as SCSI-ID 3, with parity disabled. Is this right to have it be sd0 from the view of SunOS, and will it be sd(0,x,x) to the boot rom ?? All I have handy are some SunOS 3.5 boot tapes, and they don't seem to know about an embedded scsi drive, I boot diag from the st drive just fine, but it asks me to choose a controller, and the choices are: Xylogic 450 (an SMD I think) ... Emulex MD21 (the long gone SCSI-ESDI) Adaptec 4000 (a similar SCSI-MFM) The last 2 are the only scsi controllers offered (presumably the only ones supported in these foggy old days of SunOS. My questions in a nutshell: *** Has anyone out there put an embedded SCSI drive like the WREN-IV onto the sun 3/160? (I have the "sun-2" scsi controller in slot 7 BTW). *** Is it correct to disable parity on the drive as I did? *** What version of SunOS is anyone out there using with success with a drive like the Wren on the 3/160 ? Thanks! Tom - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 14:52:00 -0400 From: "fadi (f.) mehanna" Subject: Setting up a SUN to access a remote network via PPP/SLIP. To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, I have a SUN SPARC 2 (sunos 4.1.3), configured as a standalone wstation at home. I have Xserver installed locally. I would like to connect to work (28.8k inbound modem pool) to access files. (small files < 1Mb) Any pointers to PPP/SLIP packages (commercial or public domain) would be very helpful. I would like to know how much work is involved. I heard that running NFS over a modem is quite slow, is that true ??? Thanks for any help, - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Oct 95 23:15:02 -0500 From: Kevin Kim Subject: sun 3/60 randomly rebooting To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Help, As the subject says, My sun 3/60 is randomly rebooting itself. Does anyone have a clue what might cause this? I have no clue whatsoever, so any reply will be helpful. Thanks, -kevin - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 19:39:47 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #29 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 07:50:12 -0700 (PDT) > From: John Bainbridge > Subject: difference between xylogics 450 and 451 vme boards? > To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > Can someone tell me what the difference between the xylogics 450 and 451 > boards is? (It's not in the hardware FAQ). > > TIA > John Bainbridge The 450 is 'plain' SMD, the 451 is a ESMD card. This means the 451 supports drives with more cyls/heads and faster datarates. E.g. a SuperEagle drive 'sort of' worked for me on a 450 but was only faultless after switching to a 451. BTW both 450 and 451 are actually Multibus cards in a VME mounting frame. Whenever you have the option go for a Xylogics 7053 card. True VME and much faster Wilko - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Oct 95 23:06:10 PDT From: ska!dsk@uunet.uu.net (Daniel S. Keller) Subject: where to buy RAM for a SPARC? To: uunet!net-kitchen.com!Suns-at-Home@uunet.uu.net Greetings, Suns-at-Home Folk -- Can anyone suggest where I might get a good deal on some more RAM for my SPARCstation IPC? It's got 16M and I'd like to double this to 32M or, if I can afford it (and if it will fit), quadruple it to 64M. Can this machine hold 64M? Any suggestions on where to buy it? Many thanks! Dan Keller - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 19:47:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Anthony D'Atri" Subject: xy450/1 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >Subject: difference between xylogics 450 and 451 vme boards? >Can someone tell me what the difference between the xylogics 450 and 451 >boards is? (It's not in the hardware FAQ). First off, they're Multibus boards, not VMEbus boards. For VMEbus machines they're loaded into bus-bridge frames. The biggest difference of which I'm aware is that the 451 does interleaved seeks, and the 450 doesn't, which means that if you've got more than one drive of a single controller, the 450 is going to be even slower than the 451. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************