Date: Sat, 6 Jul 96 07:03:03 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #24 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 6 Jul 96 Volume 9 : Issue 24 Today's Topics: Broken Mouse (2 msgs) How to work HP DAT with Sun HP Tape & Broken Mouse... request SCSI Fuse? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:41:25 -0400 (EDT) From: jeffw@smoe.org (Jeff Wasilko) Subject: Broken Mouse To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Does anyone know where I can get spares to repair my broken optical mouse? > I need an email or snail-mail address. Sun makes a box called the Sun Interface Converter that allows you to connect PS/2 input devices to your SparcStation. Various combinations are allowed, including a Sun keyboard and PC mouse. List price is $75, and the Sun part numberis X465A. SunExpress also sells a mechanical mouse. -Jeff - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:21:37 -0400 From: Bill Kearney Subject: Broken Mouse To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Does anyone know where I can get spares to repair my broken optical mouse? > I need an email or snail-mail address. There is a company that makes a SERIAL driver for the Suns to support a PC type input device. This will require using your serial port for the purpose and on most machines with only 2 ports this might be a problem. But if you've got the port free then consider it. I think the FAQ has details on this because I don't have the info. It is not possible to attach a PC type input device directly to the Sun keyboard/mouse port. Don't we wish it was! Consider that the newer mechanical Sun mice are supposed to work as replacements. The might not be as cheap as clone mice but they're better than hunting down those optical pads. You might just want to buy another optical mouse, they're pretty cheap off the net. If you need parts, mail Scott Bethke He's got quite a selection of old stuff. Others like Dave Case and Hugo are also good sources. Bill - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 11:32:25 -0700 From: Jeremy Cooper Subject: How to work HP DAT with 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. HP DAT drives do work with Suns. You have to disable harware compression however. This can be done with the DIP switches on the drive, if you can find them. If you have 8 switches, try turning off numbers 6 & 7. -Jeremy - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 01:13:47 -0400 From: earl@baugh.org (Earl Baugh) Subject: HP Tape & Broken Mouse... To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I'd like to second that HP 4mm's work just fine with Suns. I've got a HP 4mm tape running, no problems at all. One of my last reboots gives: Jun 15 18:25:38 hal unix: st5: Jun 15 18:25:38 hal unix: st5 at esp0: target 5 lun 0 The only thing I had to do was change a jumper setting (the drive was in use on a Mac before...) but that info was all available on the HP web pages. FYI I'm using it on a Sun SS2, running Solaris 2.5. I know that earlier versions of the OS don't support the 4mm's (well, I think MOST if not all of the 2.X releases do...), so if you're running 4.1.3_U1, you're out of luck, without adding an entry to the appropriate tape driver files, rebuilding the kernel and hoping that the support is all there (like it was for the Exabyte drives...) I'd suspect you won't have a lot of success going down that route. The "simple" solution would be to go to Solaris 2.5 if you really need the 4mm.... Regarding the question of a "broken mouse". I may have a spare soon (send me some mail) but also there are plenty of used Sun places that can help you there. There are also 3rd party mechanical mice you can purchase. I'd be curious if anybody has any way to make a PC mouse work (I've tried it with various PC mice with absolutely no success...) Earl - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:50:00 -0800 From: henry.neugass@lst.spacebbs.com (Henry Neugass) Subject: request To: suns-at-home-request@tigger.net-kitchen.com to: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com 1 gig is too little. I want to add a drive to my SS4-110/Solaris 2.4. Obviously SCSI. Somewhere in the delivery materials I believe I remember dox about the physical issues of adding a second drive. I've also seen, somewhere, mention that there's an upper limit to the practical size of a a filesystem on an added drive. Nemeth et al. give some Solaris-specific installation instructions in "UNIX System Administration Handbook". I've found a list of drive parameters called Master_S.dat on some ftp site. Other than that, I'm clueless. (Well, I design small computers for a living, so I've got some general skills, but as far as this system, I'm pretty much clueless.) In case "clueless" isn't specific enough to generate responses, here's some specifics: 1. Is there an FAQ somewhere that answers all such questions? I've looked for a comp.sys.sun.hardware FAQ without success. 2. Is it SCSI-1, SCSI-2, SCSI-3, or, well, what kind of SCSI drive do I want? Is there a practical upper limit on size? Anybody got an "approved" or "proven to work (or not work)" list? 3. Is a special cable required? If so, where I can I get it? 4. Are the any downsides to adding a second drive, maybe suggesting that I should migrate to 1 really big drive? 5. Any non-obvious gotchas? (I know not to hook 110VAC directly to the drive, but there may be some less obvious issues.) 6. Anything I'm obviously too unaware to ask? Thanks, henry - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:37:17 -0500 From: Dan Lees Subject: SCSI Fuse? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I was working on my SCSI devices when I seem to have lost contact with my SCSI card. It no longer shows up on any lists of registers (like it used to along with my tape controller and xylogics controller). I believe I may have blown the SCSI fuse (?) on the board, unless someone can tell me otherwise. Where can I get one of these little round plastic fuses? I am also looking to purchase a Xylogics 7051 (? forget what the real number is at the moment, but you get the idea) to upgrade from my 451 since I'm formatting new SMD's anyway. Thanks, Dan Lees ATLANTIS - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************