Date: Sat, 15 Jun 96 17:54:01 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #21 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 15 Jun 96 Volume 9 : Issue 21 Today's Topics: A not quite working 4/110... bootable NETBSD copy for sun 3/60 on 1/4 tape Help! Clueless newbie Sun admin! No Subject (really 1/4 inch tape help) Summer Sweep-up Sun 3/50 Video cable (Same as DB9?) Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #20 (2 msgs) text (really SPARC 5 versus DEClaser printer) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 10 Jun 96 16:40:43 BST From: k.schupke@ic.ac.uk Subject: A not quite working 4/110... To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, I have just joined the list, as I have just inherited a sun 4/110 at home from work. However, the sun appears to have a problem booting. I was hoping that someone on this list might have an idea as to what may be going wrong, or could point me at a technical-service-manual... When booted in 'Diag' mode the system gets to the MMU tests and fails at:- MMU Write To Write-Protected Page Test. Error Memory Error Address Reg: 0042008; Expected 00020008. Pressing escape to abort the tests, it sizes the memory ok then spews out a stream of unexpected bus_errors (bus error reg: 0x00000080) I have borrowed a 4/110 from work which works, and swapped the following bits into my system... SIMMS,CPU,FPU controller, two large black square chips 7511-6027 & 7511-6028. My machine still failed & the other machine still worked (so at least I know all the major components work)... As far as I can tell this leaves a motherboard problem (broken track/wire or dry joint)... or one of the other numerous small chips. With the information I have, its going to be nearly impossible to find the fault, so I would be very grateful for any ideas/information that could help me track down the problem... Cheers! Keean Schupke, Computer Support Group, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, LONDON. PS. if any relavent information could be mailed to me at k.schupke@ic.ac.uk then I will get it quicker, as I only read the digests. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:15:06 -0400 From: tfd@mindspring.com (Christian Rohde) Subject: bootable NETBSD copy for sun 3/60 on 1/4 tape To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I really need some help this time... I have a 3/60 and got the 4.1.1 Sun OS tapes with it. However every time I try to boot from tape the drive searches, and gives me either a SCSI select error or a Device not found... I believe, since the drive is responding the tapes must have corrupted. I tried booting from 2 different tape drives, and have used a secound 3/60 to be sure the mainboard and controller works. So far I have no means to make a bootable install of NETBSD, because I can't run the stupid OS. I have NETBSD sitting on my MAC, after I pulled it of the net, but really can't do much with it there... If you have NETBSD or know someone who has it and a 1/4 tape drive and would be willing to trade for a bootable copy, I would make it worth your time, please let me know. I hope I'm not violating any shareware copyright laws by proposing this question, if I do please ignore it.. Kindest regards, tfd@mindspring.com - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 20:07:52 -0500 From: Dan Lees Subject: Help! Clueless newbie Sun admin! To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Help please! I got hold of a Sun 4/280 with no working disks, but an OS on tape. I purchased a SCSI card for the machine and a Seagate Hawk2XL 1gig SCSI drive. I've got the drive hooked up now, but I believe I formatted it incorrectly, I also have _NO_ idea how the heck to parition it for the OS! (I have no install manual). I have no idea how to compute between cylinders, tracks, sectors and bytes! (I don't know what the relation is!) The stats for the drive I got were 4176 cylinders, 4 heads, 75,900 bytes p/track, 4800 tracks p/inch, 126 blocks p/track and 494 blocks p/cyl... Now the format command asks for _SECTORS_ p/track! What the heck is a sector?!? Also, after its formatted and I need to parition it, how do I use the parition command? Theoretically if I wanted parition a to be 100mb for the OS, would I make it start at cylinder 0 and then be number of blocks to be what, 820189 blocks long? I am really clueless here, and have no references to go to! (I have a Sun Network Admin manual which isn't much help)... PLEASE help! Dan Lees - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 03:22:45 -0400 From: tfd@mindspring.com (Christian Rohde) Subject: No Subject To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, I was wondering if you could help me out on a little (i hope) problem I have with my 3/60 and 1/4 tape drive. I want to install Sun OS 4.1.1 from my 1/4 tape drive, I have set the bootmonitor eeprom position 18 to value 12 to activate eeprom boot devices. location 19 is set to 73 and 1a to 74 (settings for the 1/4 tape drive) upon boot the drive activates, searches the boot tape several times, and then gives me a "Device not found" error. The 1/4 unit also has a internal HD which no matter what eeprom setting also activates by flashing it's led once... I have tried all bootmonitor settings, with the same results. the 3/60 operates on boot ver.2.8.3 I would greatly apreciate it if you find the time to help me out, kindest regards, tfd@mindspring.com - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:51:50 -0500 From: kent@cooper.paa.com Subject: Summer Sweep-up To: sah@tigger.net-kitchen.com I'm at it again! I need room in my office for some new equipment. If any one is interested in this stuff let me know. Otherwise its off to one of the local schools:-) SPARCstation IPX: $785 ----------------- - 16Mb RAM - 424 Mb disk - GX framebuffer - NO monitor, keyboard or mouse Motorola envoy (Wireless PDA) $500 ---------------------------- - Magic Cap (O/S & GUI) - 2 PCMCIA slots - Internal wireless & wireline modems (ARDIS/RadioMail, AT&T personal link, AOL, OAG Flightline, etc) - 2Mb Epson PCMCIA memory card - Pocket Quicken - Magic Exchange back-up software w/cbls - Leather carry case - Original Packaging Kent - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jun 96 14:48:19 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: Sun 3/50 Video cable (Same as DB9?) To: leyte@ostwo.com > Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:44:05 -0500 > From: "Gary Allgood" > > I recently purchased two Sun 3/50 systems ... Is the video cable a > special cable, or will a standard DB9 serial cable work? A DB9 serial cable will probably work if you keep it short. Strictly speaking, two of the signals (four pins, including their individual grounds, and no I don't know which pins although it is probably in the Sun Hardware Reference someplace) are high-frequency ECL logic signals and should be run on coax cables of the proper impedance. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 14:10:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Frisch Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #20 To: leyte@ostwo.com > 1. Is the video cable a special cable, or will a standard DB9 serial cable > work? I am using a standard DB9->DB9 PC mouse extension cable as my monitor cable on my Sun 4/110 (also on a 3/60 when I had one). Works just fine. I don't know exactly what the pin-out is, but it does work fine. Mike. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:55:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #20 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:44:05 -0500 > From: "Gary Allgood" > Subject: Sun 3/50 Video cable (Same as DB9?) > To: > > I recently purchased two Sun 3/50 systems with monitors and external scsi > hard drives. I received no cables in this purchase so I have spent > countless hours searching for them. I am at a point now where I can find > no answer for the following questions. > > 1. Is the video cable a special cable, or will a standard DB9 serial cable > work? As far as I know the cables are straight-through (1:1 pin connections). But I'm not thrilled by the average DB9 cable, the Sun video is of high frequency and needs a good shielded cable to avoid interference to radio/tv reception. Other than that, making on yourself should not be much of a problem Wilko - ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jun 1996 10:12:24 +0100 From: mnovak@bbs.infima.cz Subject: text I do not know why, but nobody is able to configure my SUNSparc5 to work with my DEClaser 1152 printer. If they manage to configure SUN the printer works until the SUN is not switched off. Then it does not work again. But, I need to print my postscript files. Is there just a simple way to connect SUN and PC through serial cable and send files to PC and print it from there - or print it directly from SUN using PC as a host? What ddo I need for this?I would much appreciate some advice. Milos Novak, Prague. E-mail: mnovak@infima.cz - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************