Date: Sat, 29 Jun 96 08:29:49 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #23 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 29 Jun 96 Volume 9 : Issue 23 Today's Topics: Broken Mouse HP DAT tape drive for SUN +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 24 Jun 1996 11:03:46 +0800 (SGT) From: Fung-Chai Lim Subject: Broken Mouse To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, Does anyone know where I can get spares to repair my broken optical mouse? I need an email or snail-mail address. I can see the red LED is working. The broken component could be the other (infra-red?) LED, light detectors, or the IC chip. Does anyone know which has the highest rate of failure? Otherwise, does anyone know how I can hook up a PC mechanical mouse to my IPC (with Type 4 keyboard)? Or better yet, how to hook up a Cirque GlidePoint trackpad? Thanks in advance. Regards, fclim. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:46:39 -0700 (PDT) From: spach@xor.lax.primenet.com (Stephen Anspach) Subject: HP DAT tape drive for SUN To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com fadi (f.) mehanna writes: > I have a SParcII 4.1.3_U1, and naively I tried to connect an HP > tape drive (DAT) to the SUN. Upon boot I got the message: > > vmunix: st0: Generic Drive, Vendor= > vmunix: Unknown type- assuming 0.25 inch cartridg > vmunix: Variable record length I/O > I tried tar, dump, cpio nothing works, SUN keeps complaining > about no taape or drive is off. > > Obviousely Suns do not work with HP DAT tape drives. > Is this true or is there some patch or whatever to make it work. Can't speak for your particular setup, but here on my SS5/SunOS5.4, I have an HP 4mm DAT connected that I use daily. Observe: bash$ scsi_inquiry /dev/rmt/0 /dev/rmt/0: inquiry Removable media: yes Device type: 0 ISO version: 0 ECMA version: 0 ANSI version: 2 Async event notification: no Terminate i/o process msg: no Response data format: 2 Additional length: 38 Relative addressing: no 32 bit transfers: no 16 bit transfers: no Synchronous transfers: yes Linked commands: yes Command queueing: no Soft reset option: no Vendor: HP Product: HP35480A Revision: 1009 Wish I could help you more but I don't know enough about the hardware in question. Hope this is helpful, though. -- - Steve spach@xor.lax.primenet.com Windows 95: Don't look behind that curtain, Dorothy! - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************