Date: Sat, 25 Nov 95 07:52:43 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #33 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 25 Nov 95 Volume 8 : Issue 33 Today's Topics: 3/60 Binaries online? [Q] 4/260 SCSI... Scanners and sparc2 Sun Hardware Reference update Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #32 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 95 13:20:25 0000 From: Bill Kearney Subject: 3/60 Binaries online? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Does anyone have a set of binaries for a 3/60 online? I'm going to try to jumpstart a few old 3/60s and I really don't want to build all the stuff again. All the basic stuff like gnu tools, gcc, etc. Thanks, Bill - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 9:00:58 EST From: Alex Dumitru Subject: [Q] 4/260 SCSI... To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello, I have a 4/260 with a sun-2 internal scsi board. System has 2 Fujitsu MFM drives and a Wangtek 5099 tape drive attached to the SCSI cable that runs out of slot 7 on the backplane. System boots up and works ok. I would like to replace the internal disks and tape with regular SCSI devices (ST31200N disk, Archive150 tape and a 3401 cdrom). In preparation for this, I modified the 3401 as per the sun-cd-faq, set it to id 6 and hooked it up to the system. Put a 4.1.3 CD in, and turned the power on. When I try to boot from the cdrom with >b sd(0,6,x) I can see the busy light on the CDROM flash, but on the console I get a scsi: select failed msg and then a Device not found. If anyone has any hints/ideas on what is wrong here or how the devices should be configured, please contact me via e-mail. thanks alex -- Alex Dumitru - alex@innovus.com - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 17:14:38 -0500 (EST) From: dlr Subject: Scanners and sparc2 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Does any one have suggestions about setting up a scanner with a sparc2. The simplest thing may just be to get a cheap pc and attach it via an ethernet card and put it on my network. Anyone have a scanner working with a sparc? All ideas accepted, including just buying a mac (that would certainly be the easiest and whimpiest way to go). dave - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 18:43:11 -0800 From: "James W. Birdsall" Subject: Sun Hardware Reference update To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com, george@intnet.net, montjoy@ece.uc.edu, The latest update of the Sun Hardware Reference is available in the usual places. This one mostly adds a bunch of framebuffers, but also includes additional compatibility notes in CPU descriptions and an overview of the SPARC register model. The usual places: ftp.picarefy.com:/pub/Sun-Hardware-Ref ftp.netcom.com:/pub/ru/rubicon/sun.hdwr.ref ftp.intnet.net:pub/SUN/Sun-Hardware-Ref (in a few days) http://www.picarefy.com/ (Web link to flat text files, follow the obvious hyperlink) --James - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 14:16:41 -0700 (MST) From: Bradford Castalia Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #32 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 19:54:18 -0500 > From: Noel Cragg > Subject: Help! Dead Keyboard on 3/50! > To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > After being out of town for several months, I finally came home to my > old 3/50 (hey, it's a nice XTerminal). On turning it on, however, I > discovered that it couldn't recognize the keyboard and instead would > read from ttya. > > I cleaned contacts. I exercised cables. Nothing. I yanked the > board, discovered a dead keyboard fuse, replaced the fuse, and tried > again -- NOTHING! Ugh. > It's quite rare that a fuse will blow of its own accord; something went wrong and the fuse did its (dying) duty to try and protect other sensitive circuits (that's what it's there for! :-). So replacing a fuse is, alone, rarely effective (it's likely you'll find that the fuse has blown again, though the failed part may have "fused" itself sufficiently that there is no longer circuit continuity). > I finally checked out the hardware guide and discovered that 3/60's > have a similar problem -- dead serial ports. My guess is that one of > the Zilog uarts died. Anyone else have this problem? More > importantly, anyone know how to fix it? Thanks in advance. > UARTS, existing as they do on the front lines to the "outside world", are likely sources of circuit failure. I've replaced my share (due to lightning- induced current overlaod on unshielded serial lines, in my case, not necessarily yours). Getting a replacement UART is easy enough. But get a board-mounted socket, too. Remove the failed component and replace it with the socket; then insert the replacement UART (this is MUCH safer than soldering the new compent directly). There may, however, be other damaged components.... It could very well be easier (and perhaps not much more expensive if you value your time) to just get a replacement board. Bradford Castalia castalia@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************