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From: Dirk.Rode@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Dirk Rode)
Subject: OPUS Bootproms
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:02:05 GMT

Shalom,

 we have a Sparc Clone from OPUS. But ... life is life ... OPUS
is no longer "available" ...

So does anyone know, which Version of SUN Bootproms have the same
Revision than the OPUS Proms Version 1.0 ??

with thanks in advance
               Dirk

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: cgh018@tijc02.uucp (Calvin Hayden x2254)
Subject: Re: Video Controller problem with a Sparc 1+
Organization: Siemens Industrial Automation, Johnson City TN
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:36:27 GMT

From article <1j7ankINNepl@tamsun.tamu.edu>, by henrik@stat.tamu.edu (Henrik Schmiediche):
> In our department we have quite a few Sparc's (1, 1+, IPX, 10). One
> of the Sparc 1+'s has develop a vidoe problem and I was wondering if
> I could get some help on fixing the problem.
Sounds familiar...
>
> Symptons:
>    The monitor will do OK when the cold 1+ is booted. After a few
>    minutes the screen image on the monitor will start jumping from left 
>    right and over a minutes or so the jumping increase in speed 
>    until the the image is flickering and completely distorted. 
Yep, sounds real familiar...
> 
> Since we have several Sparc 1+'s in our department I tried swapping
> monitors and found that these symptons persist with a new monitor -
> furthermore the old monitor works when hooked up to another Sparc 1+.
> So it seems to me the monitor is fine and that perhaps the problem
> lies with the video controller. I have a lot of experience fixing IBM
> PC's, but I have not yet opened up a Sparc. So before I do, a few
> questions.
> 
>    1) is the video controller replaceable (ie. is it on some kind
>       of card that can be swapped)?
Yes.  The sparc1 and 1+ (I haven't torn open an IPX or 10...yet) should
have sbus video cards in them.  The card is replaceable.  We are on sun
HW maintenance, and when this happened, I tried another card from another
system and the symptoms went away.  Called Sun and got another card.
>   
>    2) can one buy replacement video controllers from another
>       source but Sun (hopefully cheaper then Sun)?
Dont know?
> 
>    3) does anyone recognized the above symptons and knows exactly
>       what it is?
See above.  My symptoms were as follows:  on ocassion, a sparc 1 of mine would
become "jittery" as described above.  When it happened, the entire system 
would "hang", and only a cold boot would fix the problem.  It would go away,
but come back before long.  If I remember correctly, the problem was also 
associated with occasional "watchdog reset" halts.
> 

Hope it helps...

Calvin

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From: dj@micromuse.co.uk (DJ Walker-Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Sparc book clone that runs 4.1.3
Date: 23 Jan 93 12:51:05 GMT
Organization: MicroMuse - The SPARC dudes

In article <1993Jan21.133957.8623@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> bmcm@beech.lle.rochester.edu (Brian McMaster) writes:
>
>I'm looking for our HP sys admin for a sparc book clone that will run 4.1.3  
>We arent going to solaris 2.0 for a while and I'm told that the sparc book will
>only run solaris 2.0.

Wrong. The Tadpole Sparcbook runs 4.1.3 with OW/3. Only the original literature said Solaris 2.0 only. They soon shipped with 4.1.x....


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: davidc@mcs.kent.edu (David Chrin)
Subject: Wangtek 6200 HS, problems w/
Organization: Kent State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:35:30 GMT

Hi. I'm posting this for a friend of a friend, so I hope nothing's been
lost in the translation.

He has a Sparc 2 running SunOS 4.1.1. He's trying to write to a Wangtek
6200 HS 4 mm 2 gig DAT drive, and is getting the error message:
"sense key: no additional sense, incorrect length"

I don't know if he was using dump or tar. I thought he might just need
to specify the density and tape length, but have no idea what to suggest.

Ideas? Thanks.

--Dave
From: jonathan@gabriel.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: LX Shipping dates +3 months
Keywords: gripe
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:33:10 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:

>igr@apl.Washington.EDU (Ignatius Rigor) writes:

>We got ours in December. It seems that they have underestimated the demand.
>Three months is a long time.

We ordered our Sparc 10 model 41 in June with a delivery promise of
"the end of August, start of September".  Silly me, I forgot to ask
which year......

Sun's fifth guess at a delivery time is now "sometime in April".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mark@walt.CS.MsState.Edu (Mark Rauschkolb)
Subject: Sun output to NTSC video or lcd projection screen?
Organization: Mississippi State Univ.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:22:23 GMT

     We have been looking into lcd screens for overhead projection
of computer screens.  Most of them do VGA and Macintosh but I haven't
seen any that does Sun output also.

Any suggestions?

   The other Idea that someone had was to display Sun output  on
some large color tv's that we already have.  Does anybody know of
a way to do this?

Thanks

Mark
mark@cs.msstate.edu

Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.hardware:7067 comp.sys.sun.misc:6471
From: jch+@cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Hardwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Sun3/50 at home : UPS, SPS, or line conditioner recommendations?
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:11:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.C1DMvw.2AB.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

I've got an aging Sun3/50 at home that I'd like to keep going for the
next 3 years or so.  Currently, it's only protected by a $15 surge
protector.  This obviously isn't going to do anything for brownouts or
dropouts, and I'd like something better before air conditioner season
rolls around.  My choices in the $50-$150 range seem to be:
   1. Line conditioners that protect against brownouts and brief
      dropouts (no batteries, just a big transformer and capacitors).
   2. UPS/SPSs that protect against the above plus extended blackouts
      (up to several minutes), and which might be able to shut the
      system down automatically with a little hacking on my part.

So, four questions:
   1. What are the power requirements of my Sun and its monochrome
      screen?  (I know how much the Quantum drive draws)  It came
      without docs, so I'm in the dark here.  Under 250W?  450W?  600W?
   2. How sensitive is the Sun power supply to fluctuations in the
      supply?  I can remember an office glitch in which two IBM RT's
      went castors-up whilst a Sun3/60 never even blinked.  Are Sun's
      generally good in this respect?
   3. Is the extra expense of a UPS/SPS worth it?  In other words, how
      often *is* there a blackout which a line conditioner can't handle
      but a UPS can?  
   4. Does anyone have (dis)recommendations?  Tripplite line
      conditioners score highly in Eric Raymond's 386-workstation FAQ.
      From a quick look through catalogs, there are also Sola UPSs
      out there.  Which other manufacturers should I be considering?
      Ability to be interfaced to the system is a plus.

Thanks for any advice -- I'll summarize responses if there is
sufficient interest.

Jonathan H., jch@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: dwalton@athena.mit.edu (Dave Walton)
Subject: Spark Information - Help
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:40:16 GMT

My research group has just recieved funding for a small spark cluster.  We got
information from SUN, but that doesn't always cut it.  I would appreciate it
if I could get some low-down information from some users on different systems.
Here's the scenario:  We have a substantial, but limited, amount of money, and
are running computationally intensive programs.  Should we get a couple of
smaller machines, or a large one hooked to a smaller one?  What is the price-
speed ratio? (the SP10s seem to be much more expensive with only a slight speed-
up over the smaller models)  What's the deal with the talk on new OS problems?
The spec sheets say that Ethernet comes "Standard".  Does that mean "with the
purchase of the $600 Ethernet card"?  Can you use any serial/parallel printer
and access it from any machine (if they're all networked)?  How come the
19" greyscale monitor is more expensive than the 19" color monitor?

If anyone has the desire to waste some time and write a comparrison of the
systems, I'd be very appreciative.

Put another way,

You have 50K.  You want a fast system (2 SUNs or more), with printer 
(maybe color)(maybe a plotter too), you will be doing graphics as well, 
and most of the software used will be written, not purchased.  
What would you buy?

Please respond personally to dwalton@athena.mit.edu, or if you feel that you
have composed a work of art, post it and also send it to me personally.  I 
don't read news that much.

Thank you in advance,

         - Dave Walton       (dwalton@athena.mit.edu)
From: jaa101@gorton.anu.edu.au (James Ashton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Speakerbox on SS10 running OS 4.1.3
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:51:05 GMT
Organization: The Australian National University, Canberra
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.15.124

In article <1k11ulINNqq0@iraul1.ira.uka.de>, fuchs@ira.uka.de (Stefan Fuchs) writes:
> Hi!
> 
> Has anybody out there managed to change the 
> 
> * sampling rate
> * number of channels
> * precision
> 
> of the audio device on a SS10?
> 
> Anytime that I try to assign a value (even the values AUDIO_GETINFO returns)
> to one of these parameters I get an "Invalid Argument"-Message form the
> AUDIO_SETINFO call.

I have succeeded in altering other parameters although I haven't tried
the ones you mention.  I found that it was necessary to use the
procedure documented in TFM:

          The audio_info structure may be initialized through the
          use  of  the AUDIO_INITINFO macro.  This macro sets all
          fields in the structure to values that are  ignored  by
          the AUDIO_SETINFO command.  For instance, the following
          code switches the output port from the built-in speaker
          to the headphone jack without modifying any other audio
          parameters:

               audio_info_t   info;

               AUDIO_INITINFO(&info);
               info.play.port = AUDIO_HEADPHONE;
               err = ioctl(audio_fd, AUDIO_SETINFO, &info);

          This technique is preferred over using  a  sequence  of
          AUDIO_GETINFO followed by AUDIO_SETINFO.

I wondered about the exact meaning of `preferred' but after some trials
and failures discovered that it more or less translates as `do it this
way or it won't work'.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: wolf@merlin.mt.att.com (Thomas Wolf)
Subject: Re: SPARCclassic questions
Reply-To: wolf@merlin.mt.att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:07:22 GMT

In article GK6@rice.edu, fontenot@ravl.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot) writes:
"> "hello,
"> "
"> "I have a few questions about the SPARCclassic:
"> "
"> "1) I assume the OS comes preinstalled, but what if I want to reinstall it?
"> "Does a CDROM come with the machine (and boot disks)?

Your assumption is incorrect.  Solaris does not come pre-installed.  And if you
don't buy the Solaris CD and a CD-ROM player (if you aren't connected to a network
that has a CDROM and/or Solaris) you might as well use the Classic as a door-stop,
because it's useless straight out of the box.

"> "3) how much space is left on the 207 Mb HD after the OS is installed?
Don't know for sure, but I don't think there's much if any space left if you
install the complete Solaris distribution and assign about 32Meg for swap (if I
remember correctly, on my LX the entire distribution took up about 170Megs.)

"> "9) what's a good price for classic memory?

I asked this question awhile back and some folks said that they got 16Meg SIMMS
for as little as $570.  Since you need at least a pair, I'd say you will have
to part with about $1100.

"> "10) does the HD have to be reformatted if the machine is turned on its
"> "side?

Why would it have to - because some bits would fall off?  (Sorry, couldn't resist
that one :-)

Hope this helps,
Tom

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: john@pauli.lv-physics.nevada.edu (John Kilburg)
Subject: Problems with an Exabyte on a Sun 4/370
Organization: UNLV Department of Physics
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:45:24 GMT

The following is a short description to find out if anyone out there
has had a similiar problem.  Please contact me with email if you
have had a similiar experience...

We have a Sun 4/370 running 4.1.1 that has an Exabyte tape drive
hooked to it.  Writing to the drive seems to work OK but when I
try to read from the tape it fails.  It will read part of the
tape but then it fails with errors like:

sm0 Snap shot: error= 0x11 (Unexpected phase error)
               state= 0x12 (Data req), sub_state= 0x5
               esp cmd= 0x0, xcnt= 0, intr= 0x10
...

and it says that it is resetting the SCSI bus.  The only
time the error occurs is when the tape drive is used.  Reading and
writing to the two disks on the same bus doesn't cause a problem.

The setup we have has worked with no problems for a long time but now
suddenly we are getting problems.

I thought, "Great!  I'll just send it to Exabyte to get fixed", but then
we moved the tape drive to a Sun 3/50 running 4.x and it read a tape
that it wrote just fine.  This leaves me with a sick feeling as the
4/370 is not on maintenance.

Any help would be appreciated.

						-john

email address: john@pauli.lv-physics.nevada.edu

p.s. I have cleaned the drive plenty of times with official Exabyte
cleaning tapes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: tim@hssc.scarolina.edu (Tim White)
Subject: Re: Looking for ethernet to manufacturer map
Keywords: ethernet manufacturer
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:16:12 GMT

behzad@jolt.att.com (Behzad Nadji) writes:

>As you know, the first three bytes of the ethernet address determines
>the name of the manufacturer of the interface.  For a utility that I am
>writing, I need the corresponding mapping table.  Any ideas on where I
>can find one?


    Use archie to find the file assigned-numbers.txt. There are at least
  two different versions of this file. I would grab the largest( assuming it
  would be the most complete ). File size I have is 173105 bytes.

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From: leew@protocol.zycad.com (Lee Whitty - Protocol/Zycad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: mounting floppy drives on Sparc's
Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:30:44 -0500
Organization: Protocol, a Division of ZYCAD Corporation
Distribution: world
Reply-To: leew@protocol.zycad.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: badboy.protocol.zycad.com
Keywords: mount floppy pcfs



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I am looking for an easy way for a user to be able to mount and unmount a floppy disk on a
sparc 2 without having root access, and without being able to mount or unmount any other
devices. Any ideas?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: fontenot@ravl.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot)
Subject: more SPARCclassic questions (and Thanks!)
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:41:10 GMT

hello again,

First I would like to thank everyone who responded to my previous questions.
I have learned things that shocked and amazed me  ;-)

Onto the questions:

1) I intend to buy a SPARCclassic for personal, (initially) standalone use.
Assuming I don't have access to a network, what are all the things I need to
order to get my system up and running?
So far I believe I need:

* SPARCclassic itself, comes with monitor and (hopefully) keyboard and mouse.

* Solaris 2.1 CD-ROM media ($50)

* boot floppies (??)

* an optional floppy drive ($150, ouch! sounds high)

* a CD-ROM drive (???)

* an AUI adapter cable if I ever want to connect to a thinnet ($75, too much)

* an external SCSI drive for non-OS files  :-)

anything else I have missed??

2) Since I need a CD-ROM drive, can I get a cool NEC or Sony with multispin
technology (or borrow a generic SCSI one from a friend til I can buy one),
in order to install the OS, *or* do I have to buy one from Sun (double ouch!
I have not seen the price, but I bet it's high).
In other words, does the Classic need to be able to *boot* from the CD-ROM
drive in order to install the OS from it?

3) I have seen prices for a VRAM upgrade for the *LX*, but not for the
Classic. Does this mean the Classic comes with 1Mb VRAM? I *can* get
1152x900x8, can't I?

4) What do I have to do to get OS bug fixes and updates?

5) Does the one user license mean that nobody can log in through a serial
port? (or over the network)?

6) How do the 15" color and 19" grayscale monitors compare? The 15" sounds
awfully small for even 1024x768 resolution. It would have to be very sharp
to be useful. What are the specs for the various monitors? i.e. dot pitch,
actual viewing area, tube manufacturer, etc.

thank you for your time,

Dwayne Fontenot
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: stevens@madvlsi.columbia.edu (Andy Stevens)
Subject: 4MB simms in Sparc 1+
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:01:01 GMT
X-Posted-From: china.madvlsi.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hi, I would like to install four 4MB simms in my Sparc 1+ (and
therefore have 16MB of memory).  Can anybody tell me which slots I
should install the simms in?  

Also, do I have to change any jumpers?  I currently have eight 1MB
simms in there (which I will be removing).

--andy s.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: phoenix@well.sf.ca.us (Benjamin McLemore)
Subject: Performance of Sparc Classic?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:52:38 GMT

I am interested in knowing how the performance of the new Sparc Classic
compares with that of other Sun workstations. The only Sun I have
used is a SparcStation 2. A price of $4295 would seem to indicate that 
some corners had been cut-- is the consensus that this is not true?

Thanks for any replies. I am new to the Sun world, so pointers to any
FAQs or info would be appreciated. 

Thanks.

--Benjamin McLemore
phoenix@well.sf.ca.us
214/522-7640 fax


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: fbaos@nuscc.nus.sg (Ozekici Suleyman (DR))
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Has anyone used CERAM's TurboSwap board?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:27:38 GMT

Hello...
	my mail to turboinfo@ceram.com bounced (host unknown).
Can someone who has it please forward me the info file?

Thanks
From: fontenot@ravl.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: SPARCclassic questions
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:41:04 GMT
Organization: Rice University

hello,

I have a few questions about the SPARCclassic:

1) I assume the OS comes preinstalled, but what if I want to reinstall it?
Does a CDROM come with the machine (and boot disks)?

2) can the classic use non-sun CDROM drives? (and boot off of them)?

3) how much space is left on the 207 Mb HD after the OS is installed?

4) does the frame buffer take up an SBus slot? How many *total* slots
are there?

5) can the classic be run multi-headed (multiple monitors)?

6) is the 19" grayscale monitor really grayscale? (or is it monochrome)?
Could the grayscale be a better deal than the 15" color?

7) can the monitor be deleted? can the classic run with non-sun
monitors?

8) which of the available monitors are Trinitrons?

9) what's a good price for classic memory?

10) does the HD have to be reformatted if the machine is turned on its
side?

11) doesn't it look silly with a 19" monitor on top of it? :-)

more questions later,

thank you for your time,

Dwayne Fontenot
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: Re: SCSIjumpers 105 Quantum/suninstall question
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:33:09 GMT

Another related question: where can one get the terminator resistors
for these drives. The one internal to my space 1+ didn't have any, and
when I replaced it with a bigger drive, and wanted to use it on an
PC scsi controller, it barfed without terminators.
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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: 25 Jan 93 23:53:40 GMT
	<BETSYS.93Jan20155701@ra.cs.umb.edu> <C17pDy.D77@siemens.com>
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

Jumpstart appears to be something that looks out on the net for other
machines running Solaris.
We cared a LOT because we didn't own 4.1.3 media and thus could not
install anything and our new machine was doing a good imitation of a
paperweight. (I know, we should spend $1800 for Software
support...there's a lot of things we should do. Can you say 25% budget
cut for higher education over three years, 1989-1991?)
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