Date: Sun, 13 Oct 96 21:13:59 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #38 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 13 Oct 96 Volume 9 : Issue 38 Today's Topics: 3-Chip SIMMs in Sun 3/80 Serial port/modem problem Shareware CDROM Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #34 Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #37 (2 msgs) Where to find Sun386i X11R[5/6] binaries???? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 07:38:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Morris Subject: 3-Chip SIMMs in Sun 3/80 To: "Brian L. Brush" > Has anyone here had experience with three-chip SIMMs in Sun 3's? I > have a friend whose IPC has some and runs without problems, but I'm not > sure an older machine could handle it. I want to populate a Sun 3/80 > motherboard with eight 70 ns three-chip 1 x 9's. Yes, no, or maybe? Hi Brian, I've used 3 chips SIMMs successfully in a 3/60. I'm not sure if they'd work in a 3/80 or not, but they do at least work in some older Suns. Since the 3/60 is older than the 3/80, I would imagine they'd work there as well, although I don't have access toa 3/80, so I've never personally tested this. Jeff Morris - http://www.xensei.com/users/jeffm/ - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Oct 96 11:33:16 PDT From: wp@pocs.com (Wolfgang Polak) Subject: Serial port/modem problem To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I've been running UUCP on my Sparc station IPC under SunOS 4.1.1 for years without problems, dialling in and out of ttya/cua0. After upgrading to SunOS 4.1.4 I can't seem to get the dialin/dialout on the same port working. The problem I see is that whenever I turn off the soft carrier on ttya the device "disappears", i.e., any open on ttya or cua0 fails with "no such device or address" (ENXIO). That means that getty, kermit, uucico, tip all fail to talk to the line. Even ttysoftcar fails, so the only way I found to get the port back is to reboot with ttya turned off or declared local in /etc/ttytab. Any idea is appreciated. -wp - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 06:59:45 -0700 From: Floyd Rodgers Subject: Shareware CDROM To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Is anyone aware of a good shareware cdrom for Solaris that contains Netscape, Mosaic, GNU stuff and/or X stuff? PLEASE send replies to: frodgers@netcom.com (personal) KC5QBC frodgers@rotarydrill.com (Business)(972)495-8181 A practicing artist of multiple ended candle burning. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Oct 96 14:00:18 GMT From: Granville Moore Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #34 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com In article <199609141527.KAA14478@tigger.net-kitchen.com> you write: > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:53:40 -0400 (EDT) > From: Daniel Kosack > Subject: Any Sun2's still out there? > To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > Just out of curiosity, are there any Sun 2 systems still out there in > use, or have they all bitten the dust and gone to that big computer land > in the sky? > I'm still running one Sun 2/50, and have a second one which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. They run SunOS 4.0.0 (very slowly). I don't know of any others still running. Regards, Granville - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:58:08 -0400 From: tparrish@larry.doa.state.nc.us (Thomas Parrish) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #37 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have owned a SUN 3/60, and a IPC. the SUN 3/60 had twelve three-chip 1 x 9's and it worked just fine. You shouldn't have any problem using those chips in a SUN 3/80. I must ask you though. Would it not be more economical for you to just upgrade to a sun4 type machine ? You can get a sparc IPC with 12 megs of memory for under $250.00 dollars. Then you'll have a machine that can at least run today's Sun0S ( Solaris 2.3 - 2.5 ) with no problem. - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 18:29:58 -0700 From: "James W. Birdsall" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #37 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com "Brian L. Brush" writes: > Has anyone here had experience with three-chip SIMMs in Sun 3's? I >have a friend whose IPC has some and runs without problems, but I'm not >sure an older machine could handle it. I want to populate a Sun 3/80 >motherboard with eight 70 ns three-chip 1 x 9's. Yes, no, or maybe? A quote from the Sun Hardware Reference: From John O'Connor: 3-chip SIMMs have two 4Mbit chips (organised as 1M * 4bits) plus one 1Mbit chip as opposed to the nine 1Mbit chips on the 9-chip SIMMS. The difference arises from the fact that the 4Mbit chips require more addresses to be read in the refresh cycles, so you get unreliable operation of 3-chip SIMMs in systems that don't provide enough refresh cycles. This matches my experience, and that of many others, that 3-chip SIMMs are a bad idea in Sun-3's. The 3/60 very definitely doesn't take them; I didn't have any luck, and I don't recall hearing from anybody who has, either. The 3/80 might, but I doubt it. --James - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 08:19:46 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Wileniec Subject: Where to find Sun386i X11R[5/6] binaries???? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi; I have been looking for Sun386i X11R[5 or 6] binaries. There are various references to ftp site, but, all the ftp sites I have checked no longer sem to have the directory tree, or allow anonymous ftp access. (This includes the cxc1 site entioned in a previous Suns-at-Home reply on this subject.) Does anyone know where there is a currently open site for this stuff? If not, any notes/ideas/hints on building such binaries from the original X source? (I did get that stuff, but, haven't strted an attempt to buildit yet.) Regards. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************