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From: jhm%weasel.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Jimmy H. Miklavcic,3167,8770,3598144)
Subject: Re: Does a Prestoserve S-bus card improve local
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:10:30 MST
Reply-To: jhm%weasel.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu
Organization: University of Utah, SLC UT


I got at least double the write access performance on all my local disks when
I installed the Prestoserve board on our 690MP.  So, yes, you should expect that
from the board.

I saw 4X increase on NFS writes.

Jimmy Miklavcic
jhm@weasel.cs.utah.edu
From: nelson@that_machine.PPD.Kodak.COM (Bruce D. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Projection devices
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:35:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company

I am looking for information on devices to (1) hook up the output
of a Sun (or preferably any vendor's) workstation to an existing
SONY videoprojector setup or (2) find compatible LCD-type projection
devices which fit on overhead projectors.

Thanks for any info you can provide.


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From: dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au (David Clunie)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcpip,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Berkeley Packet Filter for Sun's
Date: 24 Dec 1992 13:48:03 GMT
Organization: Her Master's Voice
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au
NNTP-Posting-Host: britt.pax.tpa.com.au

I am interested in implementing a filter for controlling the flow
of certain tcpip packets based on source/destination, protocol and
possibly process/user of origin.

I gather from peeking at tcpdump that there is such a thing as the
"Berkeley Packet Filter" mechanism that can be implemented in SunOS 4.1x
if one has a source license which I don't :(

Is there anyone who has done this that could let me have the object
of the appropriately modified modules ?

I am presupposing of course that BPF will be of some use to me, in the
sense that it will allow me to selectively filter packets, rather than
just peek at them !

Thanks ... david

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mainkar@netcom.com (Varsha Mainkar)
Subject: Question about ELC CPU board
Organization: Duke University, Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:29:26 GMT

 I will be having a SPARCstation ELC moved by a moving company from CA to
NY. When I purchased the machine the CPU board and the monitor were shipped
to me separately. I would like to know whether it is necessary/advisable
to remove the CPU board before shipping it again to my new residence.

  I called Sun at 1-800-USA-4SUN but they refused to answer  my question
because I do not have a service contract or an extended warranty! Is there 
any other number that I can call to get free advice on this matter?
This is my personal machine, not used for business purposes, and I cannot
afford a warranty/service contract.

  I would appreciate getting a response as soon as possible. 

 Thank you,
 Varsha Mainkar
 mainkar@netcom.com
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: woolsey@mri.com (Jeff Woolsey)
Subject: Re: Any experiences with Sparc 1 upgrades from "Super Workstation"?
Organization: Microtec Research Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:08:02 GMT

In article <BzD3F4.Gwv@well.sf.ca.us> gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder) writes:
>I recently recieved a blurb from a company called "Super Workstation" who
>sell a Sparc-2-compatible motherboard that replaces a SparcStation 1's 
>motherboard to upgrade it to SparcStation 2 performance.  At $1400 (with
>return of old board) it sounds like a very good deal.  Has anyone out
>there tried one of these?

I've done this.  The _only_ problem I've had so far is that I no longer get
the nifty color logo from my GX board that I used to.  I suspect replacing
the boot PROM with a genuine Sun boot PROM would fix this "problem".

The motherboard is supposed to be trace-for-trace compatible with a real
SS2 motherboard, and the design is licensed from Sun, I believe.

I wonder what SWS is doing with all those SS1 motherboards...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,misc.forsale.computers.workstation,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: khatten@gtenext1.gte.com (Ken Hatten account)
Subject: Sparc_alike kybd probs
Organization: Just meself :-}
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 21:24:35 GMT

Has anyone experienced the following :
	The system beeps
	All the kybd lites flash about 16 times

	At times the kybd locks up, and requires a reboot
	At times it doesn't and is fine
	Can happen at any time, generally when idle

Let me describe the systems in question :
   Two Tatung Sparc 1+(s), one with CG3, one w/ CG6
   One Tatung Sparc 2 with CG3
	SunOS 4.1.3 and OW3
	16 MB and 24 MB RAM respectively
	512 MB internal disk each
	_Sun alike_ kybds
	Assorted periperhals scattered about,
	which are different on each machine

	The systems are used exclusively for Interleaf 5.3

	Tatung says the keyboards may be bad ( all 3 ? )
	Tatung has blamed RAM  and Ileaf previously
	Ileaf says "NOT US. Software CANT do that"

	Is there an OW3 bug that relates ? Is there someone other than I
	that has this problem ? Am I holding my mouth wrong ? Help !?!
	Please.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng)
Subject: Graphics Performance
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:25:42 GMT

Has anyone run xbench or x11perf on a SS10-30 with GX? If so I'd like to
get the results. 

You can post or email (if this is old stuff).

I'd appreciate any response.

Thanks

jin meng
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:55:36 EST
From: James D. Watson <JW1675A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Preventing L1-A. Can I?

Howdy!  Does anyone know if I can prevent the L1-A keystroke combination
from breaking a Sun down to the > prompt?  Or, is it good to leave this
door open just in case someone really and truly screws the system up?
If this is a FAQ, please point me to a list of FAQs so I can peruse it
myself.  Any help on how to do this would be greatly appreciated!

Email or posting is fine.
Thanks!  Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: zhu@athena.mit.edu (Erin Zhu)
Subject: SCSI tape error
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:16:12 GMT

In an attempt to read some tar files from the SCSI tape drive (of a 
Sparcstation 1), I keep getting the message "Media error: I/O error".
A similar message showed up when I tried to use "dd".  Is there
something wrong with the tape drive?  The tape reads and writes fine
on another machine, so it shouldn't be the problem.

  Thanks for any help.

  --Erin
From: leo@ai.mit.edu (Leonardo C. Topa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: UNIX-layout Type 5 keyboards (was Re: SunOS 4.1 upgrade to Sol. 2.1...)
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Date: 24 Dec 92 10:53:22
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: vivaldi.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: guy@Auspex.COM's message of 24 Dec 92 03:34:57 GMT

In article <16084@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

   From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
   Date: 24 Dec 92 03:34:57 GMT

   In article <1992Dec23.230756.10589@fulcrum.oz.au> paulr@fulcrum.oz.au
	   (Paul Rosham) writes:

   ...

   >[A pox on the PC-style keyboard. Stop shipping it, please, Sun.]

   That may, or may not, be a wise thing for Sun to do; there may well be
   many customers who *prefer* it.

   What would be a nice thing to do would be to make more people aware that
   they don't *have* to get that keyboard, but can get the UNIX-layout Type
   5 instead.  (Whether it's a "wise" thing to do or not, I dunno; there
   are probably many in Sun who consider it a financial burden to carry
   that extra keyboard layout.)

is this why we have received several IPX's with the type-5 kbd which are
different from the type-5 kbd's we received with some sparc10's? On
the IPX's the ctrl key is to the left of the 'a' key, whereas on the
sparc10's the key to the left of 'a' is caps lock. Is the former
layout the unix type and the latter the pc style? I still don't know
for sure which one is which.....
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
Subject: Re: UNIX-layout Type 5 keyboards (was Re: SunOS 4.1 upgrade to Sol. 2.1...)
Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:34:07 GMT

guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

>In article <1992Dec23.230756.10589@fulcrum.oz.au> paulr@fulcrum.oz.au
>	(Paul Rosham) writes:
>>[A pox on the PC-style keyboard. Stop shipping it, please, Sun.]

>That may, or may not, be a wise thing for Sun to do; there may well be
>many customers who *prefer* it.

>What would be a nice thing to do would be to make more people aware that
>they don't *have* to get that keyboard, but can get the UNIX-layout Type
>5 instead.  (Whether it's a "wise" thing to do or not, I dunno; there
>are probably many in Sun who consider it a financial burden to carry
>that extra keyboard layout.)

Unless you order the UNIX version for a customer and get a PC-style kbd
delivered [possibly blameable on distribution, but you never know.]

It still sucks, tho' >;-}

-PaulR.
From: was@gdwb.oz.au (Warren Stokes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Two frame buffers showing same info?
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:23:02 GMT

We have an application which requires two screens on a Sun Sparcstation 2 
to show the same image.  Currently I am using a passive splitter (RGB) and
the result are ok but not great.  I do have a spare CG3.  Is there a way
of using two CG3s in this way?  I assume that some software (probably the
screen driver) would be required to write into both frame buffers at the same
time.

thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: ft@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (frederick.d.true)
Subject: Best way to clean Sun monitor
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:23:32 GMT


I know this sounds like a trivial problem in the scope of things, but
I have had very little luck getting all those oily digit prints off
our Sun monitor.  It seems like the monitor is coated with some sort
of glare material that is very oil absorbent.  When I have attempted
to clean it with your regular monitor cleaner, it gets rid of the
fingerprints, but leaves very annoying multicolored streaks instead.

Is there some sort of approved cleaner for this type of monitor? Does
anyone have any good home remedies?

Please mail me at ftrue@attmail.com if you do!

--
Frederick True
AT&T
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: butler@quest.comm.mot.com (Jim Butler)
Subject: Substitutes (replacements) for this optical mouse
Reply-To: butler@quest.comm.mot.com (Jim Butler)
Organization: Land Mobile Products Sector, Motorola, Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:39:58 GMT



	Hello everyone,

	My optical mouse and I are not getting along well.  I would like to
get a replacement mouse (one with "mechanical" guts, like those on DECs
or Macs) that (1) isn't confined to a 7"x7.5" square of my desk, (2) doesn't
drag when moved (and I -do- keep my pad clean), and (3) moves the cursor
in relation to the motion of the mouse w.r.t. -me- and not w.r.t. that shiny
pad (its orientation is a random variable that depends on how much the mouse
drags on it, etc., etc.).

	Since I'm new to the Sun world I'm not sure who the third party
suppliers are, and I would appreciate any netter's comments on what
mouses (mice?) are available and who the suppliers are.

	Thanks ever so much,

	Jim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: X11R5 on Sparcstation 2 with GCS board
From: c60216@number6.aedc (Allen Buck)
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:19:44 -0600
Reply-To: buck@aedc-vax.af.mil
Distribution: world
Organization: OAO @ Arnold AFB
Keywords: X11R5 gs gx sun

We have a number of Sun Sparcstation 2s ( SunOS 4.1.1 ) from a now defunct
govt. contract.  A number of them are intended to provide single user graphics
capability to members of our cfd groups.  To achieve this they were purchased
with gs ( versus gx ) graphics.  Those groups have decided for consistancy
reasons use X11R5.

The problem is that X11R5 ( patch level 19 ) runs on the gx but not on the gs boards.

Details about error messages will be forthcomming if necessary.

Any help, either a fix or lead to one, would be apreciated.

PS - sorry about the previous post with subject <none> :-<

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From: aad@siemens.com. (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x)
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:49:20 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corp. Res., Inc.

>The survey that was posted here recently indicated that 60+% of "seats" use
>olwm, *and* 60+% of "seats" use Motif. I'd really love to know how that works.
>Looks like more of the old "lies, damn lies, and statistics" stuff to me.

Think about it:  was the word "exclusively" in there somewhere?  If a user's
running olwm and fires up a copy of Framemaker that has the OSF's Motif library
statically linked into it, you've got both.

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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: problem with 8mm exebyte and backing up a full drive
Date: 21 Dec 92 04:20:44 GMT
Organization: cic

pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu (Pete Ruttman) writes:

>I want to use the dump command to backup a full volume instead
>of just each partition.  I thought that you could talk about
>the whole partition by using the name of the drive (ex: sd0) and
>the c slice.  But this doesn't work.  It just seems to backup
>the first partition of the drive.  Here is the command I use:

>/etc/dump 0ubdsf 126 540000 6000 /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd0c

>This will backup only the root partion instead of the whole
>volume.  


>This is how the man page lists the procedure:

>To make a full backup of the entire disk sd3, on a 2.3-GByte
>     8mm tape st2, use:
> 
>          dump 0dsbfu 54000 6000 126 /dev/rst2 /dev/sd3c



>What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. It's just that the man page could be a bit clearer.

Dump will always back up only one filesystems. Use dd if
you want an *image copy* of the whole disk.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: rickc@netcom.com (Ricky A. Coldwell)
Subject: Maxtor disk on md21
Summary: problem formatting disk on md21
Keywords: disk md21 Maxtor
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:15:52 GMT



SUB: Connecting a Maxtor to an MD21/23 controller....


sd0: Micropolis 1558       (Unit 1)
sd1: Maxtor 8760 (ESDI)    (Unit 2)


Parameters used: ncyl=1614, acyl=2, pcyl=1616, nhead=15, nsect=51

Drive formats but displays the following information:

Formatting...done
Block 1235475  (1615/0/0), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)
Warning: error saving defect list.
Block 1235526  (1615/1/0), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)
Warning: error saving defect list.
Block 1236190  (1615/14/1), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)
Warning: error writing backup label.
Block 1236192  (1615/14/3), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)
Warning: error writing backup label.
Block 1236194  (1615/14/5), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)
Warning: error writing backup label.
Block 1236196  (1615/14/7), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)
Warning: error writing backup label.
Block 1236198  (1615/14/9), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)
Warning: error writing backup label.


Verification (2 passes) are then completed.

But I cannot label the disk.........

If you change the parameters to ncyl=1610, acyl=2, pcyl=1612
You get the same errors except cyl 1611 is displayed..

What am I doing wrong?

Reply to

rick@dfwdsr.sinet.slb.com
From: aad@siemens.com. (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x)
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:52:09 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corp. Res., Inc.

>even split.  In a more detailed followup question, the people who used OW
>were those who (a) had to because of the application needs (ie, had
>3rd party or Sun S/W which required OW)

How many of these misunderstood the question and mistook XView for OW?   I've
found that most of the third-party vendors that use the former think it's the
latter.

>On the topic of unbundled software, a large percentage of the audience
>would prefer that OW became unbundled separately-priced software, so
>they could save some money.  

I'd prefer that Sun applied its argument about the C compiler to OW, keeping
OW and giving me a compiler.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: msf@fsg.com (Michael S. Fischbein)
Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
Reply-To: msf@fsg.com
Organization: Fusion Services Group, Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:03:15 GMT

Sun is probably "abandoning" SunOS 4.x to live up to the well-publicized
committment they and AT&T made several years ago to actually *use* the
UNIX OS they would jointly develop (ie, SVR4) on the machines they sold.

Contrast this with the complete lack of committment on their
competitor's parts in developing OSF/1 shortly thereafter.  Neither IBM
nor DEC, nor any of the other OSF players ever actually committed to
*using* OSF/1 on their machines.  Sun and AT&T's committment ensured
they would provide engineering support to the product development.
DEC and IBM ensured they would get advertising support.

	mike

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From: mike@egf-bbs.uucp (System Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,misc.forsale.computers.workstation,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: (E)SMD drives forsale
Date: 1 Jan 93 02:56:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: egf-bbs.1993Jan1.025625.436
Organization: EGF, MN Public Access Unix


1.  Fujitsu 2322 130M ($100)
2.  Fujitsu 2333 230M ($200)
3.  CDC 9720-368 230M ($250)

No cables/power-supplies/boxes/anything but they all work and each have been
	tested on a Sun 2/120 with a Xylogics 451 ESMD controller.

Mike

P.S.  I'm open to offers/trades, esp for v.32 modems.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: SMD drives and the Sparc 690MP
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:14:51 GMT

shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr}) writes:

>erl@powell.cs.jt.dk (Erik Bruijn Larsen) writes:

>>mjewison@nereid.sal.ists.ca (Mike Jewison) writes:

>>>Is it possible
>>>to take the SMD controller card from the 4/280 and plug it directly into 
>>>the 690MP?

>>As far as I know it is possible to plug a SMD controller in the Sparc 690MP.
>>SMD controllers should also be supported by Solaris 2.x.

>Yes, you can plug it in, but it won't work unless you get some extra
>software.  Support for SMD disk drives is NOT standard in SunOS for
>the 600MP.  

>The Sun Consulting group sells a product which supports 7053 SMD
>controllers and Xylogics 472 tape controllers on 600MP's.  Sorry,
>I don't have details on how to contact them or how much it costs.

>Our Sun sales rep tells us that 451 and 7053 disk controllers are
>supported in Solaris 2.1, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes.

Yes, but only on the older SPARCs:

xd(7)

NAME
     xd - disk driver for Xylogics 7053 SMD Disk Controller
 
SYNOPSIS
     xdc@6d,ee80/xd@slave,0:partition
     xdc@6d,ee90/xd@slave,0:partition
     xdc@6d,eea0/xd@slave,0:partition
     xdc@6d,eeb0/xd@slave,0:partition
 
AVAILABILITY
     Only available on Sun-4/200, Sun-4/300, and Sun-4/400 series
     systems.

--------

xy(7)
NAME
     xy - disk driver for Xylogics 450 and 451 SMD Disk Controll-
     ers
 
SYNOPSIS
     xyc@2d,ee40/xy@slave,0:partition
     xyc@2d,ee48/xy@slave,0:partition
 
AVAILABILITY
     Only available on Sun-4/200, Sun-4/300, and Sun-4/400 series
     systems.

Casper
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