HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bmcm@beech.lle.rochester.edu (Brian McMaster)
Subject: corrupt Lable - wrong magic number 
Reply-To: bmcm@beech.lle.rochester.edu (Brian McMaster)
Organization: UofR Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:53:18 GMT

I am installing 2 drives in my headless 1+.  When booting from the CRROM
every thing works fine till it it starts to report on
what is in sd1. It reads the sd0 device fine, It has no terminating resistors.
I tried with and without termination on sd1, no luck.  Here is what it says:
.
.
sd0 at esp0 target 3 lun 0
sd0: (Quantum ProDrive 105S cyl 924 alt 2 hd 6 sec 35)
sd1 at esp0 target 1 lun 0
sd1:   corrupt label - wrong magic number
sd1: Vendor 'MAXTOR', product 'LXT-340S', 665154 512 byte blocks
sr0 at esp0 target 6 lun 0
le0 aty SBus slot 0 0xc00000 pri 5`
rd0: using preloaded munixfs
WARNING: preposterous time in file system -- CHECK and RESET THE DATE!
root on red0a fstype 4.2
swap on ns0b fstype spec size 4808K
dump on ns0b fstype spec size 4796K
GARBAGE GARBAGE GARBAGE GARBAGE GARBAGE GARBAGE GARBAGE GARBAGE GARBAGE HUNG
 
HELP !

BTW  4.1.3 using a dumb termial on ttya for a console.

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From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Non-optical mouse?
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:28:16 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

I'll be working on an IPX pretty soon, and I'd like to replace the optical mouse  
with a roller mouse.

Where can I get a roller mouse for the IPX?

Thanks for your help - e-mail preferred.

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From: andy@Chemeng.Ed.Ac.Uk (Andrew K. Hind)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Type 5 keyboard on SS10
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:59:26 GMT
Reply-To: andy@Chemeng.Ed.Ac.Uk
Organization: Edinburgh University Chemical Engineering Department.
NNTP-Posting-Host: isla.chemeng.ed.ac.uk

On my IPX the following works:

keycode 27 = Up
keycode 31 = Left
keycode 34 = Down
keycode 35 = Right

I put this in a file and feed it to xmodmap in my .xinitrc file
(Using Openwindows the keys work - well I don't remember doing anything!)

I guess it will be much the same ;-)

		Andy
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.dcom.lans.fddi
From: dmoeller@iphase.com (Doug Moeller)
Subject: Re: FDDI card for SS2?
Organization: Interphase Corporation, Dallas TX.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:04:53 GMT


|> >> Does anyone know of an S-bus - FDDI interface card?
|> >> How about drivers for ths same?
|> >> 
|> >> Thanks in advance.
|> >> 
|> >> 	Scott
|> >
|> >Sun sells such an animal - it's called a X1003A FDDI Single-Attach SBus 
|> >Interface Card. The cost in the Sun catalog is $2995 and it includes
|> drivers on 
|> >CD-ROM and 3.5-inch diskette.
|> 
|> Two other vendors are :
|> Network Peripherals (408/321-7300)
|> and 
|> Crescendo Communications (408/732-4400)
|> 

Don't forget Interphase Corporation (214/919/9000)

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From: timm@mpii02000.mpi-sb.mpg.de (Jan Timm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: (REPOST) Help: Flickering 3/60 Mono Monitor
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:00:06
Organization: /HG/usr2/hiwis/timm/.organization
Distribution: comp
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Hi,

I asked this allready twice, got some answers, tried out
some of the advice, but didn't solve the problem yet.
As there were lots of others with similiar problems, maybe
some of them managed to repair their monitors. Well:

I've got got a Sun Mono 19" Monitor, for the Sun 3/60 (-> ECL input),
manufactured by Phillips, Canada. It was build in 1990 (and should
not die so young !!!)

The monitor is flickering (getting dimmer/brighter in irregular periods).

I read, that people managed to repair the monitor by changing the tantal
capacitors, but mine got no tantal capacitors. I decided to change all 
bigger capacitors instead, but with no result so far. 

If the flyback transformator is bad, what replacement part could i use 
(product number of a different manufacturer, source in europe ?...)
How do i check, if it's the flyback transformator?

Any hints ?

Jan Timm

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sgi
From: adrie@ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
Subject: Re: Is it Sunset yet?!?!
Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:13:50 GMT

In article <1943@niktow.canisius.edu> pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
>                      SGI Indigo R4000     SUN 4/75 SPARC 2
>
> *Sequential disk test       1707KB/sec            602KB/sec
> *"Random" disk test         1219KB/sec            328KB/sec
>   (*8192-byte blocks)

I'll examine the result of the random disk test on the Indigo.
Using 8KB blocks, transfering one block at 4MB/s takes some 2ms.
The Indigo reads 1219/8 = 152 blocks per second, i.e. 6.6ms per
block. This means that the mean access time of the disk used by
the Indigo is some 4.6ms, where I assume zero software overhead
of the operating system.

Comments, anybody?

Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl)
Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
From: at018@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dale Houston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: monitors....
Date: 4 Jan 1993 14:28:37 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Has anyone here gotten a bad 16" moniotr from Sun lately? We've 
gotten two (and maybe three) lately that will occasionally pop
and lose focus for a second...

Anyone else have this problem...


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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:56:27 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>(in fact, SunOS 3.5 didn't swap the kernel

Neither does SunOS 4.x....
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: printcap entry for an IBM 4029
Date: 5 Jan 1993 22:57:22 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

Hi there. I was wondering if anyone has a printcap entry for an IBM 4029
that they can share with me? Please let me know.
Thanks in advance!

Thomas.

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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: SPARC clones
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:52:01 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>The keyboard is not a standard SUN keyboard buts works quite well.  The only
>problem is that BACKSPACE is above RETURN rather than DELETE.  DELETE is on
>the same row as the F1-F12 function keys.

Sounds like the standard Sun (not SUN, please) keyboard on my SS2 - Back
Space above Return, Delete above Back Space, on the same row as F1-F12.

(I.e., the Type 3, for better or worse, hasn't been the standard Sun
keyboard for several years now....)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: Re: Sun's ZS chips (was Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!)
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:59:07 GMT

In <350@gradient.gradient.com> ddj@gradient.gradient.com (david johnson) writes:

>If the TIOCSET* ioctls were finally obsoleted, and the baud
>rate could specified as an integer, the SCC could be programmed
>for much faster rates.

For receive, perhaps.  The SCCs only have a one-byte transmit buffer,
so they must interrupt for each character transmitted.  That takes a
lot of CPU cycles, not to mention making it sensitive to the load on
the machine.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:29:26 GMT


>Why the heck did Sun not put better serial chips in their new machines??
>Isn't it obvious by now that the Zilog chips SUCK?

What's so terrible about the Zilog chips?
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From: dfuller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Desmond Fuller)
Subject: Ordering New SUN - Suggestions?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 13:27:41 GMT


We are ordering a SUN SPARCstation 10 Model 54 for our scientists
and would like suggestions from anyone.  We will be using the
SUN for Genetic database searches (e.g. IntelliGenetics Suite, etc.)
[basically large (+1 gig) databases).

This is what I've done so far:

SPARCstation 10 Model 54 w/ 4 Super SPARC processors
GX 8-bit Accelerated 2-D/3-D Color Graphics
19" Monitor
128 Mbyte memory
4-Gbyte SCSI
3.5 Floppy drive
Solaris 2.x (media and docs)
SunCd Pack
Online DiskSuite Software (CDROM)
Sun Database Excelerator
NetWare SunLink

As I said before, I need this to be a *very* fast database machine and
any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks,

Desmond Fuller
American Red Cross
From: wilko@russia.idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:32:24 GMT

earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:

>In article <rcaldwel.726296968@ponder> rcaldwel@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Roger Caldwell) writes:
>>I have a old Sun Microsystems machine, model number Sun-2/120
>>
>>Could some kind soul PLEASE tell me what I have, is it good for anything.

>You have a 2nd-generation Sun Workstation, dating from late 1983.  Welcome to
>9+ year old hardware technology.

> 8	Sky Floating Point Processor board
> 9	Sun Color Video Controller

>The memory boards have to be adjacent to the CPU board in slot 1, and they
>can go in slots 2, 3, 4 and 5, yielding a maximum of 4 Mb.

Not so. 4Mb mem boards exist, max supported is 6Mb, but I've seen 7Mb
working.

>Your Sun-2/120 contains a Motorola MC68010 processor, running at 10 (?) MHz.

Yep, 10 Mc

Wilko
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From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How do we boot our new SS10?
Date: 12 Jan 93 23:00:54 GMT
	<433@ftms.UUCP> <C0qt18.HKu@rice.edu>
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

I heard from one source that Sun's shipped after 12/7 came with
Jumpstart instead of Solaris; another source gave the date as 12/31.
Ours *arrived* on 12/31 and had Jumpstart.
  We finally *borrowed* a CD-ROM while waiting for our salesperson to
ship us one, and it boots fine now.

thanks again for all your help.

PS Sun didn't install the extra memory we ordered either; just shipped
it in a box. I get the feeling they were in a real end-of-quarter
rush.
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From: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: WANTED: dongle for unpluggable (type-4) keyboard
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:05:21 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University

Scenario: we have an IPC built in to the lecturers' bench in one of our
theatres driving a large-screen projection system.  Because the theatre is a
relatively open shared resource we would like to be able to unplug the
keyboard and mouse and store them separately (we already do this with the
monitor).  Does anyone have a circuit for a dongle we could plug into the
IPC's keyboard socket which will make the machine believe the keyboard is
present even when it has been unplugged?

Alternatively, is there some way to persuade the thing to use one of the
RS-232 ports as the console while still having the keyboard/mouse/framebuffer
available for normal use?  Is there an unplugged-console dongle for this
situation?

4.1.2, btw, though we could probably go to 4.1.3 if it made any difference;
Solaris 2.x isn't an option at the moment.
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From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:04:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1993Jan6.160435.8281
Reply-To: jh@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies, Inc.

In article 19572@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov, earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:
>In article <rcaldwel.726296968@ponder> rcaldwel@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Roger Caldwell) writes:
>>I have a old Sun Microsystems machine, model number Sun-2/120
>>
>>Could some kind soul PLEASE tell me what I have, is it good for anything.
>
>You have a 2nd-generation Sun Workstation, dating from late 1983.  Welcome to
>9+ year old hardware technology.
>
>
>Basically, any modern PC will run rings around your old, tired warhorse.
>Seriously, ditch it and get a 486DX2/66 or 486DX/50-based PC clone system and
>run 386BSD (4.3BSD++ based) on it instead.  Send your Sun-2/120 to a museum ...
>

I'll volunteer to display it.. :-)  Seriously, the machine will actually make 
a decent X terminal.  There's some software floating about that brings up the
machine with the bare minimum to make an X connection to a server.  It won't
be fast, but it's a use for hardware that you might otherwise have collecting
dust!  If you really can't find a use for it, I was semi-serious about taking
it off your hands....

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: greg@serveme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik)
Subject: Re: Sun-3/60 CG4 with 5 connector color monitor?
Organization: Gagme Public Access Unix, Chicago, Illinois
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:12:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.111220.5027@cs.hw.ac.uk> censjg@caledonias3.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Simon Greaves) writes:
>
>The solution is to ignore one of the syncs, I can't remember which, but 
>there's not an enormous choice :-).
>
>I have a Sony Trinitron on my 3/60, I just use the R,G,B and the sync 
>nearest to them. 

That didn't work.  There are 2 syncs on the back of my monitor.
Just for fun, I tried plugging the Sun's sync into one and then
the other.  It almost worked in one of them, but the image
wrapped around itself horizontally.

The vertical sync was fine.

-greg

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From: simong@festival.ed.ac.uk (Simon Greaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Sun SCSI lun allocation
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:17:01 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

I have now got my Emulex MD24/Sun 3/60 based system working, but it only
sees the first two disks, sd0 and sd1. I wasn't surprised by this, I set 
the Emulex to SCSI id 0, the disk box contains 4 ESDI disks on SCSI lun 0
to 3. I want to access the other two disks, ie SCSI id 0 lun 2 & lun 3,

I believe SunOS derives the disk slave as SCSI ID * 8 + lun, and hence 
sd0 = SCSI id 0 lun 0, sd1 = SCSI id 0 lun 1. sd2 maps on to slave 8 =
SCSI id 1 lun 0.

What I want to do is to reconfigure the kernel so I can access disks on
SCSI id 0 lun 2 and SCSI id 0 lun 3. Is this possible? 

Any comments well appreciated, email to either .sig address preferred.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Rory Toma)
Subject: Type-4 keyboard on a 3/110?
Organization: Not bloody likely around here!
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:54:00 GMT

We have been using a Type 4 keyboard on our 3/110's (Xkernel machines)
for quite awhile. However, now there is an accountant type who likes to use
the keypad. While it is fairly easy to map the Type-3 bindings that it
thinks it has to fit the Type-4, there is a little problem. The Type-4
keyboard has a few xtra keys, and one of these xtra keys is the "+" key
on the keypad. I've been told that not having said key would make
bean counting difficult, so I was wondering if anyone out there has a
solution. We do have older boot proms in the machines, but i don't 
think that a type 4 keyboard existed when the 3/110 was in production,
so this probably won`t help.


Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Question about SparcClassic
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:31:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.150038.13512@sdc.com> emike@sdc.com (E. Mike Durbin) writes:
>In article <16278@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>>
>>fm3.0X is statically linked with "libc", fm3.1a is, apparently,
>>dynamically linked with "libc".
>
>Even fm3.1 is static.  I haven't seen 3.1a, but am now looking for it very
>seriously.  From my system:
>
>    179emike@sdc> ldd /tools/frame3.1/bin/bin.sun4/maker3X.exe 
>    /tools/frame3.1/bin/bin.sun4/maker3X.exe: statically linked

schooner<903>% ldd /usr/local/share/frame/bin/bin.sun4/maker3X.exe
        -lc.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1.7
        -ldl.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1.0

This is fm3.1X, for Xwindows instead of OpenLook. Purchased last summer.
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From: macomber@thoreau.nsc.com ( Robert Macomber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.dcom.lans.fddi
Subject: Re: FDDI card for SS2?
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:18:58 GMT
Reply-To: macomber@thoreau.nsc.com ( Robert Macomber)
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation

In article <1992Dec31.151621.27354@fsl.noaa.gov>,
chesney@obiwan.fsl.noaa.gov (Scott Chesney) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know of an S-bus - FDDI interface card?
> How about drivers for ths same?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

The ones that I know about are (in alphabetical order)...

	Crescendo
	Network Peripherals
	Star Technologies
	Sun Microsystems

The driver software usually comes with the hardware.

   - Robert


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:59:29 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <DERAADT.93Jan7120536@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>Why the heck did Sun not put better serial chips in their new machines??
>Isn't it obvious by now that the Zilog chips SUCK?

Probably because Sun no longer has any competent device-driver writers...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: wiseb@rigel.cs.rpi.edu (Bowden Wise)
Subject: Looking for Technical Documentation on SPARC audio
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:24:16 GMT


I am looking for some technical documentation on the audio
capabilities of the Sun SPARCstations (1, 2, or IPC).  Something that
summarises the capabilties of the audio circuitry: what kind of tones
can be generated, how many different voices at once, whether it can be
done concurrently with what is being displayed, etc.  Even a schematic
or description of the sound hardware would be useful.  

Any one have any pointers to this?  Or, have suitable information that
can be emailed to me?
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