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From: tbaker@nmsu.edu (Trevor Baker)
Subject: WANTED: Sun 3/160 memory
Followup-To: tbaker@nmsu.edu
Organization: NMSU Realchemistry and Biochemistry
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 02:30:32 GMT

I am looking for memory to pump up a Sun 3/160 from 4 Megs o' RAM to
12 or 16 Megs.

I've never messed with the guts of a Sun before and I can't just shut
it off for no good reason (its very busy).  The beast won't take 
conventional (PC) memory will it?

Please respond via email and I'll bounce stuff for ME-TOO'ers if
anyone else would like to know  :)  I would appreciate anything anyone
has to say on the subject as I've never done anything (besides work)
on the sun.

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I'm a student:  donations and gifts of money or food graciously accepted!



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: sja@world.std.com (Stuart J Adams)
Subject: PC type XVGA/SVGA/VGA Monitor on Sun Workstation ???
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:52:54 GMT

Can I use a "PC Clone" type monitor on a SUn Workstations. I am looking at
the Mag MX15F which supports up to 1028x1024 non-interlaced. Also, these
monitors are multi-sync and hence seems that they should be able to support
the 1152x900 at 66Hz that Suns put out. 

Thanks,
Stuart Adams
sja@world.std.com
From: esmythe@atl.ge.com (Erich J Smythe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: HP Color Paintjet on a SPARCstation 1+?
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:19:53 GMT
Organization: GE Aerospace, Advanced Technology Labs


We have an HP Color Paintjet (vanilla PC version) and would like to
hook it up to a SPARCstation 1+.  Has anybody had any success with
this configuration and if so, what did you do?  We have the right
RS232 cables and possibly the right drivers but are running into blank
bands in the printouts.  I've been told this is a condition of the
buffer overflowing on the printer.  The beast passes the self test.

I would appreciate any insight you have to offer, and will post a
summary if there is interest.

thanks,

-erich

-- 
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GE Advanced Technology Labs
Moorestown, NJ.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: johnk@gordian.com (John Kalucki)
Subject: Re: postscript printer h/w speedup?
Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:34:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep03.224027.121430@zeus.calpoly.edu>, etsiao@joule.elee.calpoly.edu (Eddie Tsiao) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.192901.28857@nlm.nih.gov> berman@nlm.nih.gov writes:
>>Does anyone know about hardware (or software) to spped up printing
>>on my sun sparc postscript printer?  It is extremely slow when
>>I give it psotscript jobs.  What products are available?  How much?
>>
>>Please e-mail me directly if possible.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Lew Berman
>
>I am curious about this too.  It seems to me that the ps filter is overloaded.
>Is there one out there (preferably PD) that is more efficient.
>
>			- E.T.
>
>|Eddie Tsiao                         | etsiao@autobahn.ARDFA.CalPoly.EDU     |
>|System Administrator                | Voice:   (805) 756-1706               |
>|ARDFA Cal Poly,  San Luis Obispo    | FAX:     (805) 756-1702               |

Depending on what you are printing, the transport mechanism can be
a big bottleneck. Try increasing the serial speed to 38400 or going
to a ethernet printer or parallel postscript printer connected to
a printer server.

If you look at a serial line analyzer (or just a breakout box) and
characters are not flowing all the time (ie the printer flow controls
the Sun), then you'll need a faster print engine.

		-John Kalucki
		johnk@gordian.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: HELP: Watchdog reset/Window UnderflowType
From: Shermane Austin <SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Tuesday, 8 Sep 1992 16:28:18 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

My SPARC 1 is failing to complete the boot sequence and dropping into
the command mode with a "Watchdog reset/Window UnderflowType" message.
It appears that there is a hardware problem. I have a brand new system
board(obtained in the spring). but I have been getting a message indicating
Before the watchdog reset message began appearing, my OW sessions were
being aborted because of a bad memory chip.
                               I have had bad memory before but nothing
like this has ever happened.  I am waiting on good memory - it takes a
while get here. In the meantime, I can't use my machine at all.

Could someone please explain what watchdog reset means and what window
underflowtype(as the specific error message) means? I have a full
set of docs for my machine but can't find it. Also, I would appreciate
any hints as to what to test or what the problem could be.

A while back I think there were some posts on watchdog reset - if anyone
has a summary of those, please pass them on.

Please email any suggestions. Thanks.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.hardware:4258 comp.sys.sun.apps:1842 comp.sys.sun.misc:4108
From: zhu@cs.utexas.edu (Kai Zhu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: FAQ
Followup-To: poster
Date: 6 Sep 1992 12:38:40 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: panda.cs.utexas.edu

Could someone point me to the place to obtain a FAQ of these new groups ?
Thanks in advance.

I also would like to know information on the performance of SUN station,
somethings like those provided in gatekeeper.dec.com /pub/DEC/performance.

-Kai Zhu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: bill@soil.Princeton.EDU (Bill Wichser)
Subject: Sun 3 SMD disks not formatting
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: Xylogics 451
Reply-To: bill@soil.Princeton.EDU
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:12:38 GMT

Scenario:  Sun 3 is dead with disk problems.  Reboot via network and
run format on bad disk.  Format fails due to "Fatal non-media error
(cylinder addr error)".  I reseat, repower, reformat with same problems.

Is this the 451 card or the disk?  The second disk attached to the card displays
the same problem.  Most errors are at the end of the disk 841/19/

If it is the card what can I expect to pay for a replacement? Sources?

Thanks...Bill


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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Archive Viper support for 250 MB tape
Date: 6 Sep 92 12:40:14 GMT
Organization: cic

lou@flipper.Corp.Sun.COM ("Luis R. Ordorica") writes:

>Hi,

>Can anyone tell me if the Archive Viper mechanism used in the desktop
>storage pack can support tape lengths of 250 MB?

Yes.

>I would love to get more backup capacity out of the drive than the 
>standard 150 MB DC6150 tape size.

So did I. I've been using them for 1.5 years now.
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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP needed connecting WorldBlazer to Sparc 2
Date: 12 Sep 92 14:37:15 GMT
Distribution: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Organization: cic

chaz@elvis.xrxedds.COM ( Charles Brault) writes:

>I am trying to replace the Trailblazer Plus with a new WorldBlazer.
>The line is primarily used to remote logins.

>I have tried to follow an old set to setup notes (which worked for the
>TrailBlazer) obtained from uunet titled:

>When I try to run a getty,the modem seems to be reflecting back the
>login  prompt. I obviously don't have all the registers set right.

You have probably set E1.

>If someone could give me a register dump of a TrailBlazer attached to
>a Sparc 2 and setup as a dial in port, I would be much obliged...

Are you content with a WB on an SS IPX?

>I'm running 4.1.2 SunOS, WB has LA5.00W rom.

Same here.

WorldBlazer - SA - Version LA5.00W- Active Configuration
 B0  E0  L2  M0  P   Q2  V1  X2  Y0 
 &C1 &D3 &G0 &J0 &L0 &Q0 &R3 &S1 &T4 &X0 
 S000:1   S001=0   S002=43  S003=13  S004=10  S005=8   S006=2   S007:60 
 S008=2   S009=6   S010=14  S011=70  S012=50  S018=0   S025=5   S026=1  
 S038=0   S041=0   S045=0   S046=0   S047=4   S048=0   S050=0   S051:253
 S056=17  S057=19  S058:2   S059:3   S060=0   S061:0   S062=15  S063=0  
 S064=0   S068=255 S069=0   S090=0   S092:1   S093=8   S094=1   S100=0  
 S104=0   S105=1   S111=255 S112=1   S151=4   S155=0   S180=2   S181=1  
 S183=25  S190=1   S191=7   S253=10  S254=255 S255=255 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mike@inftec.be (Mike Aerts)
Subject: QIC-150 tapes
Organization: Information Technologies, Wemmel, Belgium.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 16:25:18 GMT

I screwed up for the second time my ARCHIVE QIC-150 tape
by inserting a tape and the label cardboard.
My question is : was someone else as stupid as me (because
I did it twice it would be a relief to know I'm not the
only fool in town) and was [s]he able to repair the
damage himself or is my wallet also going to suffer
a second time from my stupidity?

Now that I'm going to spend some bucks, I'm looking for
an Exabyte 8200 or 8500, and a QIC-150 tape (if possible
one that can withstand those labels), does somebody have
good experience with resellers (if possible mention also
their fax number).

Thanks in advance,

Mike.
From: jmt7@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOHN M. TROIANO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: VME array processors?
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:02:02 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Does anyone know of any 3rd parties who have an array processor board
which supports the VME backplane? I am mainly interested in 2-d FFT
capabilities.

Thanks in advance!    - John M. Troiano
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: drinckes@csl.dl.nec.com (Doug Rinckes)
Subject: Memory?? fault on SS2
Keywords: U207 memory sparc sun hardware
Organization: TSSC via NEC America
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 02:07:44 GMT


I have a SparcStation 2 that crapped out this morning.  When I did reboots 
it had all sorts of problems in /etc/rc.local with Memory fault - core dumped
messages pouring out.

So I shut it down, and replaced ALL its memory (32Mb).  When powered up,
it reports:

*** U207 ***
       PMAP = 00073000, Exp = ff00ffff, Obs = ff00eff

??? What is U207?  The memory banks are U311 to U318? so anyway, I thought 
maybe that memory was no good, even though it was straight out of the box.
So I put the old stuff back in, powered on AND THE SAME MESSAGE CAME UP.

After the message, the thing just sits there.  No access of disks, nothing.
It's a weekend here so no sun engineers are around, and the machine is
our database server.

If anyone can help AT ALL, it would be most appreciated.  Please
reply to the email address below.

(Oh well, could have been our 690 server.)


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From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Booting sparc from serial port
Date: 9 Sep 92 02:33:53 GMT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

I noticed on my IPC that if I yank the keyboard, the console port
defaults to ttya for both input and output.  It is not necessary to
remove the frame buffer card.  This behavior may vary depending on
model and openprom version.

Alternatively, you can go into the eeprom (L1-A while booting up),
go to new mode.  From new mode, do a printenv to note the current
settings.  Do a setenv to change the settings as desired.  You can
setenv the input-device and output-device.  Reboot the system to
effect the changes.


--Bill


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Rootstown, OH  44272-9995  USA    phone: 216-325-2511
wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu   (140.220.1.1)
From: kkaempf@infoac.rmi.de (Klaus K{mpf )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: SUN 3/50 Shoebox tape drive errors, what do they mean ?
Summary: What does 'illega odd bye DMA' mean ??
Keywords: 3/50 Shoebox tape cartridge si0 st0
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:09:55 GMT
Organization: RMI Net INFO.box Systems - Aachen - Hamburg - Wien

Hi all you hardware & device driver gurus !

Since rencently our 3/50 has serious problems writing to the
tape cartridge. I repeatedly get error messages saying

	'si0:  illegal odd byte DMA, address= 0x1030f'

with varying address values. I once or twice also got a message

	'st0:  stwrite: not modulo 512 block size'

when i was sure to write in 512 byte chunks.

Can anybody explain what it is ? The ESDI Controller ? The
tape drive ? The SCSI adapter on the 3/50 main board ??

Greetings

Klaus
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: pmj@icpsr.umich.edu (Peter M. Joftis)
Subject: SCSI disk on Sun 4/690MP
Originator: pmj@tdis.icpsr.umich.edu
Keywords:  Sun, disk, SCSI, SCSI-2, IPI
Organization: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:54:51 GMT

We are investigating adding disk drives to our Sun 4/690MP.  We had
been buying IPI drives but were interested in SCSI-2 drives given the
smaller performance differences between SCSI-2 and IPI and the lower
cost of the SCSI drives.

The local Sun sales people are discouraging me from hanging scsi disks
on the 690MP.  They claim it isn't supported and while it will work
now Sun will not commit to keeping the SBus SCSI and SCSI disks
working with the 690MP.  In the SunExpress catalog (Summer/Fall '92)
on page 49 there is a X1054A SCSI-2/buffered ethernet card that the
side bar claims will work in a 690.  However there don't seem to be
any SCSI disks in the "Storage Products" section of the catalog that
aren't for the 630 or 670 (see the footnotes on p. 37).
Local Sun field engineers claim they have installed the card in 690s
but only for the high speed ethernet--no one locally had used the SCSI
side of the card.

So I called my usual 3rd party disk vendor to see what their prices
and opinions might be.  Their line is that IPI is NOT a good choice
that Sun will be moving to "differential SCSI" technology and that I
should buy the controller card from Sun and get SCSI-2 drives.  This
is a much cheaper solution and probably meets my performance needs,
but I don't want to make trouble for myself down the road.

Do any of you have experience with SCSI-2 drives and the new
controller (X1054A) on a 690MP?  Do any of you think you know what Sun
is doing regarding IPI v SCSI v whatever on the 4/690MP?  If there is
a problem with SCSI on the 690, could some one explain it to me?

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Director, Computer Support Group
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: attila@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Attila Bodonyi)
Subject:  Parallel HP-III printer with postscript cartridge
Reply-To: attila@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au
Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 02:52:23 GMT

I am looking for a proper printcap entry for a HP-Laserjet III with a
postscript cartridge connected to a SS2 via the parallel interface of an
SBus card.

I tried both NewsPrint, and TranScript, but they seem to support
PostScript printers via serial line only. Also, I "cat" some ps files onto 
the bpp device with success, but I could not get lpd to handle the jobs 
properly.

Any help would be appreciated,

- Attila -


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Electrical & Electronic Eng.		Phone: 61 9 380 3110
The University of Western Australia	Fax: 61 9 380 1065

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: Binary Compatability between Sparc2 and Sparc10?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:44:50 GMT

In a couple of weeks I will be setting up a sparc10.  However, I don't
know whether the sparc10 and sparc2 are binary compatable.  We have
some software which we want to move to the ss10, but the answer we got
from the sun rep was that he wasn't sure.

Does anyone have a definitive answer?

Thanks..Ken Lam
From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: sync scsi on ss1 (4/60)
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:32:00
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu
In-reply-to: joey@tessi.com's message of Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:06:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.060656.25398@tessi.com> joey@tessi.com (Joey Pruett) writes:

>a) what is the magic to make a ss1 (4/60) do synch scsi?  i've
>seen the info here before.

Here is what I used:

	echo 'esp_ss1_esp0sync?W 1' | adb -w /vmunix

I'm running a Sun 4/60 that we got in November of 1989, so
it is one of the first ones and has not had any upgrades.
I can get disk transfer speeds of well over 1M/sec, upwards
of 1.8M/sec when reading the raw disk device, so I don't
think going sync scsi hurts it at all.  I haven't tried
shutting sync scsi off and doing the same timing tests
so I don't know how much of a difference itmakes.

++Brett;
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
Subject: Re: format vs. fsck on a SCSI disk
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 13:53:05 GMT

I just had a similar problem with my IPC.  Fsck freaked out
repeatedly over the same block.  The drive on the system is a 207
MB Maxtor.  I had to use format, repair to get rid of the offending
block.  Byte-from-index wasn't required, just the logical block
number; apparently format is smart enough to figure out what to do.

I don't know if the drive reformatted just the one block or it just
spared it out to another reserve block.  The whole process happened
automagically.

On my older sun 3/160, I ran into a bad block due to a grown
defect.  The only way to get rid of the problem was to do a
complete format on the drive, adding the offending spot to the
defect list; on the fly repair was not possible for that drive
(Priam 738, 330 meg) for whatever reason.

Apparently not all SCSI drives are created equal when it comes to
being able to sapre/reformat bad blocks on the fly.  I'd think that
the Seagate 1.3 gig drive is new enough that it should have all the
latest bells and whistles.  My 3rd party refernce book doesn't
mention any jumper settings, but I know that some ESDI drives I've
used in the past have strapping options to enable/disable spare
blocks.  I guess the idea is that if you want the absolute maximum
storage on the drive you can disable spare blocks and let your
operating system worry about handling mapping of grown defects.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mtsdldx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Deborah Davis)
Subject: Bootable backup tapes
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:21:55 GMT


  Hello.  This is my first message so please bare with me.  I want to make 
  a bootable backup tape for my SPARC station 1 running SUN OS 4.1.1, but 
  I don't know how.  I know it can be done because I have an old out of
  date bootable tape that someone else made.  If someone could enlighten 
  me, I sure would be thankful.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:6320 comp.sys.sun.hardware:4383 comp.sys.sun.misc:4218
From: yau@cs.utexas.edu (King-Yeung Yau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Fine grained performance analysis on SunOS
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Date: 14 Sep 1992 17:06:37 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: levelland.cs.utexas.edu

Has anyone tried to perform some really fine grained timing analysis
on SunOS, like context switch time? Specifically, I'm running SunOS 4.1.1
on a SPARCstation 1+. Since the performance figure is likely to be a few
hundred microseconds, I doubt very much if I can trust the microsecond
precision of any sequence of instructions that read the system clock.
On the other hand, it seems difficult to perform 100 context switches on
end while locking out other system activites that affect the time.
Would appreciate it if someone could offer any advice.

Please respond by email to yau@cs.utexas.edu. I'll summarize if there's
enough interest and good answers. Thanks a lot,

David

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: whg@INEL.GOV (William H. Gray)
Subject: Re: Bootable backup tapes
Reply-To: whg@INEL.GOV (William H. Gray)
Organization: Idaho National Engineering Lab
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 16:31:10 GMT

In article <mtsdldx.716070115@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>, mtsdldx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Deborah Davis) writes:
|> 
|>   Hello.  This is my first message so please bare with me ... 
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