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From: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
Subject: Second Parallel port on Sun 386i
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:07:22 GMT

(My apologies if you're seeing this twice)

We`re trying to install a second parallel printer on a Sun 386i.

We've got the card installed (configured at AT address 287, IRQ 5).

I've copied the existing line in the config file that describes the first
printer, and simply changed it to reflect the second.  In other words,
there was already a line that looked like this:

   device  pp0 at atio ? csr 0x378 irq 7 priority 2

and I've added a line that looks like this:

   device  pp1 at atio ? csr 0x278 irq 5 priority 2

The resulting kernel gets partway through booting, then gives the following
message:

    Jul 28 14:26:53 faraday panic: pp: too many units

It then traps and dies.

Any suggestions would be appreciated... Thanks in advance...

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.hardware:3469 comp.sys.sun.admin:4857
From: kint@rio.engr.washington.edu (Rick Kint)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: File server questions
Keywords: 3rd party disks, SPARCstation 10
Date: 22 Jul 92 06:48:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Jul22.064851.16283
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


	We're going to be setting up a departmental file server to provide
user file service to about 60 UNIX hosts and 10 PCs.  It will not be serving
applications or diskless hosts and will not be used for computation.  The
server will be hooked up to one Ethernet as will most of the clients.

	We're probably going to go with a SPARC{station, server} 2 upgrading
to a 10 when the Viking chips ship.  The 600s just don't seem worth it for
our application, it seems likely that the single Ethernet port will be the
bottleneck.  First question: am I missing something obvious?  I've read the
Sun literature and the "670 vs. SS 10/52" thread and seen nothing so far.

	Second question: does anyone have any comments on 3rd party disks for
this?  We're looking for the best intersection of price/performance/reliability.
Since we're spending Real Money on this, price is a real consideration.  The
current front-runner is the Fujitsu 1.3 GB disk, but I'm concerned about the
noise and heat.  Love that warranty though.  Some 2 GB drives look interesting.

	I have (gratefully) read the last couple of weeks of traffic on these
groups, so there is no need to duplicate recent postings.  I will certainly
post a summary of e-mail responses if warranted.

-- 
Rick Kint				UNIX Geek, College of Engineering
kint@engr.washington.edu		University of Washington, Seattle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: heiser@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
Subject: max disk size on IPX
Organization: Equipment Division, Raytheon Company
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 13:00:29 GMT

Sun lists the "maximum internal disk size" for the IPX as the 424mb unit.

Anyone know if it is possible to use a larger internal unit?  How about
adding a second 424mb unit inside the system box?  External disks probably
aren't an option in our environment.

If this expansion capability isn't available yet, anyone have any clue as
to whether it will be in the next few months?

Thanks in advance,
Bill
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From: hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: simm for sparc 10
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:57:16 GMT
Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL

In <13632@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

>>The Sparcserver 10 has not been announced.

>As I remember, the FunSlash, err, umm, SunFlash glop that mentions the
>SPARCstation 10 also mentioned the SPARCserver 10.

In fact, it is also in the Sun price book, and I've ordered one,
so I think its announced.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Power and heat dissipation in ipc?
Organization: Inland Sea
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 13:13:10 GMT


I've got an IPC with 200MB internal disk and am considering replacing
the internal with a 1GB 3.5.  Does anyone have data on:

  o  What the ipc power supply is rated for?
  o  What the motherboard draws?
  o  What the s-bus color frame buffer draws?
  o  What the floppy drive draws?
  o  What the floppy drive draws?

For the curious, the 200MB drive is 10 watts, and the replacements I'm
considering are in the 20-24 watt range.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: kemmer@netcom.com (Todd Kemmerling)
Subject: VME Sparc boards that support a VSB bus.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 17:57:32 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I am looking for VME Sparc board that supports a VSB bus also.

If anyone knows of such a product SUN or otherwise let me know
it would be a great help.

Thanks in advance.

Todd Kemmerling
kemmer@netcom.com

 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: tom@alacron.com (tom charlesworth)
Subject: SBus <-> VME
Organization: Alacron, Inc.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:50:50 GMT

Please email me your comments/experiences/opinions on SBus to VME
conversion hardware manufactured by:

    Bit3
    Performance Technologies

Thankyou in advance ...

Tom Charlesworth
Alacron, Inc.

(916)989-3315

tom@alacron.com
uunet!alacron!tom



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mrh@newshub.sdsu.edu (Mike Halderman)
Subject: Sun 3/80 speaker
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:21:24 GMT

Does anybody know what can be done with the speaker in a Sun 3/80.
I've never seen any reference to it.

Mike Halderman
mrh@io.nosc.mil
From: kazsato@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Where did Precision Standard Time go? (Clock corrector)
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:47:50 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan


I'd like to know where Precision Standard Time, Inc.
went. They have a system clock corrector called
"Model 1020 Integrated Time Source". 

If you know phone number of Precision Standard Time,
please let me know. Or if you know any good system
clock corrector, please advise me.

Kaz Sato, Tokyo, Japan
E-mail: kazsato@twics.co.jp

P.S. I wonder if the Model 1020 will be able to use
in Japan because it uses WWV/WWVH radio stations as
timing source. :-(

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
Subject: Xy 753 and 451 and Sparcstation 10's
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:49:54 GMT


We are considering purchasing a Sparcstation 10 to replace a 3/280 as
the main departmental machine. The 280 currently has a Kennedy 9 track
tape drive running off of a Xylogics 451 controller, and 2 CDC 9720
1.2GBy drives off of a Xy 753 controller. I would like to know if
these devices could be run off of the Sparcstation 10, after purchase
of a VME/Sbus converter card. My local salescritter has so far been an
exercise in futility, it taking three phone calls and a month and a
half to simply get me my price guide, and my techical questions have
been unanswered.

Can anyone help me?

Greg Hennessy
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: borders@ms.uky.edu (Johnny Borders)
Subject: Recommendations for Terminal Servers
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:20:15 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

Hi all..
I need some recommendations and specifics on terminal servers to be used with
a SPARC 2 and/or a SPARC 10. Please mail..
I'm looking for such info as number of ports, buffering capacity, connections
(*Ethernet, 16 async ports, 16KB per port* for instance) and extra features
and such. Does it allow SLIP/PPP? Is it expandable? Does it have large
space or power requirements? Any of this stuff would be very helpful, but
I'm really just looking for brands, products, names, numbers, e-mail
addresses and so on. Also, any practical experience, tips and advice would
be a big help.

Thanks a lot! Have a nice day!

********************************************************************************* Critic: "Is the glass half full or half empty?" *  Johnny Borders            ** Great Thinker: "What difference does it make?"  *  "It only gets worse."     *********************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mike@Turing.ORG (Michael M. Chapman)
Subject: HELP!!
Vaddr: 0Fe68018, Paddr: FF200018, Type 2, Write, FC 5, Size 2 at 0FEFBEE4"
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 17:36:43 GMT

I disconnected everything and it still says this (not what it used to say
before I tried to hook the drive up. What does this mean? Have I fried the
controller??

Thanks for any help. 


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From: mike@cendata.UUCP (Mike Heins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Do SPARCstations *really* support RTS/CTS flow control?
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:46:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Central Data Corp., Champaign, IL

>Actually, the 8530 doesn't support this mode of flow control.  In fact I
>don't know of ANY serializers that support this mode of flow control (in
>hardware).  RTS/CTS flow control is usually used in half-duplex, multidrop
>or switched carrier systems in which RTS signals a request (by the DTE) to
>transfer data and CTS aknowledges that request.
>
>The crossed RTS/CTS type of flow control that you're hinting at is actually
>a standard "non-standard" that has evolved (I believe) out of the PC world.  
>

In actual practice, since the RTS and CTS lines of most equipment are
connected together, this type of flow control is eminently possible for
any intelligent serial implementation and should be implemented.  The
newer modems require it to run fast without dropping characters,
especially in heavily loaded systems that don't have the CPU power
available to handle a full flow of incoming chars.

Try our scsiTerminal Server.  It has this capability, and works
extremely well for connecting multiple modems to SPARCstations.

Regards,
Mike Heins
------------------------
Central Data Corporation	"Makers of the scsiTerminal Server"
1602 Newton Drive		(800) 482-0315
Champaign, IL 61821		mike@cd.com
From: jon@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (Jon Mellott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: MS-DOS cd on a sun.
Keywords: cdrom
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:23:00 GMT
Organization: EE Dept at UF

In article <739@jahangir.UUCP>, wayne@jahangir.UUCP (wayne) writes:
|> 
|>       I would like to access an MS-DOS style cd 
|> on my sun cdrom drive.  Does anybody know how to
|> do this? 
|> 
Yeah, do the exact same thing that you would with a "Sun" 
CD. These suckers use HSFS/ISO-9660 format. I've had no problem 
exporting PC CDs from a Sun with the Sun CD drive to PC-NFS clients.
I've heard that there is a problem on files with no extension in 
the filename. BTW, Mac CDs also use the HSFS and are readable on Suns.

Jon Mellott
(jon@alpha.ee.ufl.edu)
From: gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Why these SCSI transport errors?
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:49:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <1992Jul27.221011.10990@med.umich.edu> warlock@med.umich.edu (Brad Robertson) writes:
>Any ideas why I should be seeing these errors when I do a dmesg on my SS-2?

>   esp0: Current command timeout for Target 1 Lun 0
>   esp0:   State=DATA_DONE (0xa), Last State=DATA (0x9)
>   esp0:   Cmd dump for Target 1 Lun 0:
>   esp0:   cdb=[ 0x8 0x16 0xcf 0xe0 0x10 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 ]
>   sd1:    SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset': retrying command
>   sd0:    SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset': retrying command
>   esp0:   Target 3 now Synchronous at 4.0 mb/s max transmit rate
>   esp0:   Target 3 now Synchronous at 4.0 mb/s max transmit rate

>The system is only a few months old and came with a Seagate 424 drive.  The errors didn't show up until after I attached a Hitachi DK516C-16 as sd1.  The Hitachi came from a Novell fileserver, and it formatted with no problems.  At first I thought perhaps I had a bad scsi cable between the cpu and the Hitachi, so I replaced it, but when I came in the next morning, the errors were back.

An obvious culprit is termination. If the Hitachi still has it's
terminator packs on-board, and some other drive in the chain is either
internally or externally terminated, strange things will happen.

I make it a policy to search and destroy internal terminating resistor
packs and terminate with a plug at the end of the chain only. Although
I will admit once to looking foolish recently when I swore up and down
a Wren VII had had them removed and thus "obviously" needed no checking.

Hitachi technical support should be able to provide you with the
information needed to remove them. They are usually SIPs or DIPS
near the rear of the controller.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: danforth@riacs.edu (Douglas G. Danforth)
Subject: Re: Help: stty won't set terminal characteristics
Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 05:45:26 GMT

In <1394@sousa.ltn.dec.com> tarsa@elijah.mv.com (Greg Tarsa) writes:



>We are trying to connect an HP LaserJet IIID to a Sparcstation.

>In the process of trying to get this going (no luck yet), I have encountered
>a problem: I can't seem to set the terminal characteristics of /dev/ttya.

>/dev/ttya is set to "OFF" in the ttytab file and, therefore, has an entry
>of "02ttya" in the /dev/ttys file.  The following command:

>	stty > /dev/ttya

>indicates a line speed of 9600 baud.  The version of stty I am using is
>coming from /bin/stty (i.e., UCB syntax and not SYSV syntax).

>	stty 19200 > /dev/ttya

>should set the line speed to 19.2K, but there appears to be no change, either
>as mortal user or super user.

I have had the same difficulty.  The only way I can get stty to set the
characteristics and stick is to spawn a subshell with the standard output
set equal to the device I want.  In my case its /dev/cua0.  But this
is NOT what you or I want since this just sets the standard output charact-
eristics.  Once one leaves the subshell the device reverts back to its
old settings.  I believe we are not interpretting the function of stty
correctly.

Please, UNIX wizards out there.  What IS the correct procedure to 
change device characteristics?

-----
D. Danforth
From: guenther@iras5.ira.uka.de (Guenther Schreiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Why these SCSI transport errors?
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:15:20 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: iras5.ira.uka.de

In article <1992Jul27.221011.10990@med.umich.edu>, warlock@med.umich.edu (Brad Robertson) writes:
|> 
|> Any ideas why I should be seeing these errors when I do a dmesg on my SS-2?
|> 
|>    esp0: Current command timeout for Target 1 Lun 0
|>    [...]
|>    esp0:   Target 3 now Synchronous at 4.0 mb/s max transmit rate
|> 
|> The system is only a few months old and came with a Seagate 424 drive.
|>  The errors didn't show up until after I attached a Hitachi DK516C-16 as sd1.
|>  The Hitachi came from a Novell fileserver, and it formatted with no problems.
|>  At first I thought perhaps I had a bad scsi cable between the cpu and the
|>  Hitachi, so I replaced it, but when I came in the next morning, the errors were back.
|> 
|> I am a novice when it comes to scsi matters, so any advice/comments would be appreciated.
|> -- 
|> ==============================================================================
|>  Brad Robertson                |   University of Michigan Medical Center, ITN
|>  brad.robertson@med.umich.edu  |   B1911 CFOB, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0704
|> ==============================================================================

Try to use a shorter SCSI cable, if yours is longer than one meter.
 In the most cases this helps.

 :) Guenther


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From: jim@applix.com (Jim Morton [ext 237])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.apps,alt.sys.sun
Subject: SunPC and Windows 3.1
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:16:27 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Applix, Inc., Westboro, MA

I've got one user who absolutely demands both MS Windows and
SPARC OpenWindows on his desktop, and I was wondering about
the Sun product "Sun PC 3.0" and people's experiences with it,
like how fast versus DOS/Windows on a 386/486, compatibility
issues, comparison to Insignia SoftPC, etc.

If you have real world experience with this issue, would you
please send me some email about the pros and cons? 

Thanks,
--
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From: dodd@mycenae.cchem (Lawrence R. Dodd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: need information on IPX vs. SPARC2
Date: 27 Jul 92 08:20:24
Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu


Hello,

  I am in the market for a sun workstation. Originally I was going to get a
SPARC2 but someone has told me that the IPX is faster and cheaper but less
expandable. I would like to hear the net's opinion of the IPX.
From: tkochie@tkochie.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: in-circuit emulator for SPARCstation 2
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:06:18 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin


I am looking for the name/phone number of a business that might market 
an in-circuit emulator for a SPARCstation 2, the ss2's cpu chip is
a cypress cyc7c601.

Thanks,

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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Do SPARCstations *really* support RTS/CTS flow control?
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:55:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>OK, I want to use RTS/CTS flow control.

(Presumably meaning the type where RTS is raised by the Sun if it wants
to send stuff, and CTS is controlled by the modem, so you can control
the flow of data from the Sun, but not the flow of data to it....)

>I recently set up uucp on our system.  In the uucp documentation, it
>shows how to enable CRTSCTS in the Systems or Dialers file for outgoing
>calls, but how do I enable it for incoming uucp connections?

Well, if it's good enough to enable it for *all* incoming dial-in
connections - dial-in UUCP connections are just ordinary dial-in
connections, generally, with the remote machine logging into a UUCP
account - then set up an entry in "/etc/gettytab" that enables RTS/CTS
flow control (by putting "crtscts" in the "ms", or in the appropriate
"m0", "m1", and "m2" fields), and have the entry in "/etc/ttytab" for
the dial-in port use that "gettytab" entry.

(There may be a way to get UUCP to turn it on for incoming dial-in
connections, rather than doing it in "getty", but I'm too lazy to check
the source any further, if it's not documented....)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.hardware:3611 comp.unix.solaris:120
From: medin@cincsac.arc.nasa.gov (Milo S. Medin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: SuperSparc upgrades for MP series systems w/o Solaris 2.0?
Keywords: Solaris 2.0, Viking, hosed
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:39:06 GMT
Organization: NASA Science Internet Office

Folks, we just got the latest GSA schedule from Sun, and it has upgrades 
from the existing Sparc2 type processors used in the MP series (we just
got 3 new 670MP's as part of an upgrade) to new SuperSparc CPU's at
a pretty reasonable price.
 
The problem is that the catalog lists Solaris 2.0 as a requirement 
for use.  Now, I didn't expect to have any SMP support without Solaris
2.0, but right now, SMP isn't really that important to us.  What I'd really
like is just existing multiprocessor support, with new Viking chipset 
support.  It appears that I can't use the Viking processors in these machines
without Solaris 2.0, and we probably won't even THINK about converting to 2.0
for another year.  Stability and application support is vital to us, and 
2.0 will likely come up short here for awhile, and certain to break our
system management people.  We're all a BSD type shop here...
 
Anyways, does anyone out there know if there is anyway to use new Viking
CPU's in the MP series without taking the plunge to 2.0?
 
                                                Thanks,
                                                   Milo
 
PS Usual disclaimers about this not necessarily being the position of the
US Government apply...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Help on ELC
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:43:04 GMT

Chang-Li> == Chang-Li Hung <andre@leland.Stanford.EDU> 

 Chang-Li> The ELC in our lab crashed once recently. The machine was
 Chang-Li> very hot and power-on test failed. The message from the
 Chang-Li> screen is to replace the mother board.  However, after being
 Chang-Li> turned off for one day, the machine is back on line again and
 Chang-Li> everything works fine. I wonder if that's the overheating
 Chang-Li> cause the problem. Is there a way to check the fan's
 Chang-Li> condition.

You're right, it sounds like a heat-related problem.  However, the ELC
has no fan; it's supposed to be convection-cooled.  Make sure people
aren't leaving stuff on top of the CPU vents...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc