Date: Sun, 5 May 96 19:54:28 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #16 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 5 May 96 Volume 9 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOs. PPP at 115K SUN3/60 eeprom ... Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #15 Value of Sparcs +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:35:43 -0400 From: Lyndon Fletcher Subject: Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOs. To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, I'm posting for a friend. He's just bought a 4Gb Seagate Baracuda for his SPARC. Under SunOs (4.1.1 I think) he can partition the drive but gets an error when he tries to create a new file system. He seems to be limited to 2Gb, is there a patch or a work around that will let him use all of the disk? Fletch - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:58:47 -0400 From: apiszcz@apiszcz.mnsinc.com (Alan Piszcz 'peesh') Subject: PPP at 115K To: nate@world.std.com There is a performance difference for viewing WWW pages IF and ONLY IF your service provider runs his/her modems at 115K. The speed is worth if you do a lot of cruising of WWW sites. The text compression is noticeable. I run a SPorster V.34+ 33600 on a SS2 with a MAGMA 2SP-LP and it Flies, much of the time it performs faster than higher speed links at work where a many people are burying the network. I'm running Solaris 2.4. I called 11 service providers in the Wash DC area, only two claimed to run at 115K on the modem they use, most do 38400 or 57600. It is easy to test, just make a 1MB file of a single character say a's . Then FTP it , you should get between 11-12 KBytes/Second if both interfaces are doing 115K. - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:28:06 +0900 From: Chen Huirong Subject: SUN3/60 eeprom ... To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, everybody, We have a SUN3/60 as a diskless workstation, it boot from network and its operating system is on a SUN4/280. We changed our network from C-class (IP addr 192.x.x.x) to B-class (166.111.x.x) (Server SUN4/280's IP addr is 166.111.64.223, 40df stand for 64.223) my question is: we can boot the SUN3 under ">" prompt using PROM command > b le(0,40df,0) but I could not modify the eeprom as root using # eeprom bootdev="le(0,40df,0)" After that command executed, # eeprom .... bootdev=le(0,ffffffdf,0) .... ^^ unchanged Thank you. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 10:24:59 -0700 From: "Ben Stoltz" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #15 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Toerless Eckert writes: > ... The basic problem with the 4/110 is that it supports slave-mode > VME boards only because it's the first sparc workstation from sun with VMEbus > and they didn't had enough board space for bus-master support. I guess most > serial interface boards on VMEbus need the bus-master service, like the > ALM-1 from sun (which of course cannot go faster than 19.200 on all 16 > ports anyway). The 4/260 (Sunrise) was the first SPARC machine. The 4/110 (Cobra) was the second. The 4/110 had the better timesharing performance above 15 active processes because its SCRAM (Static Column RAM) cache did not have a limited number of contexts. I worked on Sun's first FDDI controller, the FDDI/DX. Since this was the first non-ethernet network interface Sun had built we thought that it would be a good idea to be able to boot diskless over FDDI. The 4/100 was a special case because of the need for programmed I/O. I believe that diskless FDDI boot was eventually dropped from the product. You might check to see if the 4/110 understands trying to boot from gn(0,0,0). As far as serial controllers for the 4/100, I don't have any suggestions. Maybe there are some SCSI based serial port interfaces that you could use? Ben - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 16:27:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jason R. Mastaler" Subject: Value of Sparcs To: Dwight McKay > Date: 17 Apr 96 12:07:16 EDT > From: Robin Dunscombe/STA/Lotus > Subject: Value of Sparcs > To: "Dwight McKay (The Moderator)" > > Hi, > > I have a couple of SPARC 1s and a couple of SPARC 1+ for sale and I don't know > what they are worth. They've got 16Mb RAM, 207Mb hard disk and mono 17" > monitors. > > Anybody got any ideas ? One Sun vendor I found has a neat quote generator on the web. You could use this to get a ballpark on your various systems. http://www.apcom.com/acsquote.html Jason R. Mastaler jason@webmaster.net Cadmus Interactive http://www.CADMUS-I.COM/ - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************