Date: Sat, 13 Jul 96 17:20:41 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #25 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 13 Jul 96 Volume 9 : Issue 25 Today's Topics: 19" Sun (Phillips) monitor adjustment 4mm Tape Drives DAT drive for SunOS4.1.* on SPARC-2 Quantum Empire 1080S format on SS2. Serial file transfer Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #24 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 13 Jul 96 13:47:22 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: 19" Sun (Phillips) monitor adjustment To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a 3/60 with a 19" monochrome monitor, which seems to be developing a horizontal sweep problem. The raster is shifted to the left leaving almost no dark area between it and the edge of the visible part of the screen, there is a bright band about 1/16" wide at the left edge of the raster, and I think the dark area to the right of the raster is somewhat wider than it should be even allowing for the left shift. It's as if the left 1/4" or so of the raster had gotten compressed down to 1/16". Other than that it seems to be working OK. Is there an internal adjustment for this, or do I need to replace a component (and which one)? - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jul 96 21:21:23 PDT From: msm@Energetic.COM (Michael S. Maiten) Subject: 4mm Tape Drives To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 01:13:47 -0400 > From: earl@baugh.org (Earl Baugh) > Subject: HP Tape & Broken Mouse... > > 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 I have found that SunOs 4.1.3_U1 and later do indeed work with 4mm drives. I have an Archive Python 2GB 4mm drive which is recognized by the kernel and works fine: --> vmunix: st0: I have also used DDS2 (4-8 GB 4mm drives w/ 120 meter tapes) on SunOs 4.1.4. The problem with the drives with compressession features is that you need to have an external compression enable/disable physical switch on the drives, since they do not respond to the normal methods used by the st scsi tape driver. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 17:10:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "David L. Elliott" Subject: DAT drive for SunOS4.1.* on SPARC-2 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com This is what I wrote in response to Fadi Mehanna's request. One does not need to go to Solaris 2 to use DAT drives, nor does one have to disable compression, at least on Exabyte drives. It is necessary to compile a new kernel (/vmunix) for SunOS4.1.* to enable a DAT drove. First you have to define the drive type in /usr/kvm/sys/scsi/targets/stdef.h and then make an entry in /usr/kvm/sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.c (Before doing this, make backup copies, stdef.h.bak and st_conf.c.bak in case you are prone to typos.) For example--for my Exabyte DAT (no compression) the new entry in stdef.h is #define ST_TYPE_EXB4200 0x2a /* Exabyte 4mm DAT */ and the new entry in st_conf.c looks like /* Exabyte 4MM 2GB cartridge */ { "Exabyte EXB-4200 4MM Helical Scan", 16, "EXABYTE EXB-4200", ST_TYPE_EXB4200, 512, (ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR ), 5000, 5000, { 0, 0, 0, 0 }, { 0, 0, 0, 0 } } The compression-capable version has additional commands on the ST_* line, and DOES NOT REQUIRE disabling compression via DIP switches. A call or FAX to the manufacturer of your DAT will provide you with the correct info ... HP for instance. After these changes please read /usr/kvm/sys/sun4c/conf/README for directions... you will need to choose a kernel type such as GENERIC_SMALL (faster than GENERIC for a home machine), configure, and do a "make" in the appropriate directory. When you are all through with making "vmunix_small" you back up your present kernel by cp /vmunix /vmunix.old then cp ./vmunix_small to /vmunix. If at any stage of configure or make you get an error warning, start over. You don't want to try to boot a defective kernel. It's worth the trouble --- DAT is a very fast and effective way of backing up the entire HD, either via "dump" or GNU tar (which comes with level-0 and level-1 scripts and is very convenient for restoring). David Elliott - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:41:00 -0400 From: "fadi (f.) mehanna" Subject: Quantum Empire 1080S format on SS2. To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, I am trying to format a Quatum Empire 1080S on a SS1+, sun4c 4.1.3_U1. At the format menu, I am chosing option 15 (other) and supply the following: (from Quantum Technical Support) ncyl 2864 acyl 2 pcyls 2866 nhead 8 nsect 46 rpm 5400 bpt 23552 After the "reformatting message" it seems to hang forever. I checked with ps, no cpu usage. The format command says that the disk is unformatted and contains no partition tables. The disk has a HP label on it, it probably was repaired ... The disk is in a SUN shoebox with external termination. SCSI id matches kernel entry (sd1), scsi termination disabled. Parity is enabled. Could it be that the disk is toast ??? How can I check for that. Any thaughts ??? Thanks very much for yor help, _______________________ email: fmehanna@nortel.ca _______________________ - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jul 96 19:05 BST-1 From: jcl@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mr J C Laughton) Subject: Serial file transfer To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Can anyone help me with the following problem. I'm trying to set up a serial file transfer program on an IPX running Solaris 2.4. My preferred option is rzsz, but Kermit would do. I have both of these in executable form. I can set up terminal sessions using a Mac or PC with a terminal emulator, both locally and via a modem. I can also dial out with the modem. I can transfer files out from the IPX using rzsz or Kermit with no problem, but when I try to transfer in...kaput. Under rzsz the terminal session hangs with a "Bus error-core dumped" message, and under Kermit the file is partly transferred before the session again hangs - this time with a "zs0-serial ring buffer overflow" message. I have tried what I believe to be the right eeprom and stty settings for software handshaking, and applying a patch (102845-02) which claims to give inbound hardware handshaking, but both fail in the same way. My local UNIX gurus haven't been able to help (some gurus) - could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong and maybe walk me through the set-up? Thanks in advance for any help (and sorry for the long message.) Jon Laughton - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jul 96 20:26:11 GMT From: Richard M Davis Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #24 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi There, I've never sent a message to this list before so please excuse any cockups I make. Anyway what I want to find out is this:- I currently have a Sun3/60 with SunOS 4.1.1. What software do I need to connect it to the Internet (My current account is a SLIP account) and how do I do it ? -- Regards, Richard - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************