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From: runelord@filly.EBay.Sun.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: 2xSCSI on 4/260
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:11:55 GMT
Reply-To: runelord@filly.EBay.Sun.COM (David Williams)
Organization: Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: filly.ebay.sun.com

I'm trying to get 2 SCSI cards to work on a sun 4/260.
One is for internal drives; the other is for external.

Can anyone tell me how to configure the card, the backplane,
and/or the 4.1.1 kernel.  I realize this is an unsupported
configuration, but I'd appreciate help from anyone who
has done it on a 4/260 or similar box.
 
--Dave
From: herzog@dogwalk.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Herzog - SMCC System Software)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Two Monitors on a Sparc ... how?
Date: 13 Oct 1992 05:44:47 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: dogwalk
Keywords: Dual Monitors on Sparc

In article <1992Oct9.112943.12@mimas.arc.ab.ca> perkins@arc.ab.ca writes:
>I would like to run two monitors (one color, one BW) on a sparc using 
>openwindows 3.0, 
>with the ability to switch input/keyboard focus from windows on one monitor to
>windows on another.  
>
>Can anyone send me any pointers (both hard- and software) on how to do this.

Nothin' to it.

Hardware:  You need two frame buffers, one attached to each monitor.
	(I'm assuming your SPARCsystem is an SBus machine.)

Software:  You just use standard Solaris 1.x (SunOS 4.1.x) with 
	OpenWindows Version 3, following the instructions in the 
	"OpenWindows Version 3 Installation and Start-Up Guide," 
	pages 18-21.

	Here are some examples in case you don't have the manual.

	Let's assume you have a BW2 monochrome frame buffer and monitor,
	and a GX (CG6) 8-bit color monitor and frame buffer.

	With the BW2 the console device, and on the left:

	% openwin -dev /dev/fb left -dev /dev/cgsix0 right

	or, more simply:

	% openwin -dev /dev/fb -dev /dev/cgsix0 

	With the GX the console device, and on the left:

        % openwin -dev /dev/fb -dev /dev/bwtwo0 

	and so on and so forth.

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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: VideoPix
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:36:43 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <1992Oct7.151026.12150@unix.brighton.ac.uk> mre1@itri.bton.ac.uk writes:
<
<Does anyone have any experience of using the VideoPix card
<by Sun ? It allows you to capture images and display them 
<on a sparc workstation. Does anyone have a recommendation
<for a frame grabber for a sparc costing 500-700 pounds ?

Yep, we have the VideoPix card and software.  It is NTSC and PAL compatible.
The list price is $895.00US, which is about #500UK.  I don't know the markup
in the UK.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: trix@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (t.roger.kiang)
Subject: Re: Sparc10
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:11:24 GMT

I want to thank dwf@doug.Eng.Sun.COM (Douglas W. Forehand)
for the information he posted to my request for information
on SparcStation10.  I also got responses from
Robert.Holt@UK.Sun.COM (Robert Holt - Sun UK - Applications Group)
and Canada.Sun.COM!Warren.Strange, in addition to several
people outside of SUN.  I am impressed with SUN's
response on the internet, however, still
disappointed with the telephone requests.

The bottom line is I got more than I asked, for which
I am thankful.

Roger Kiang
trix@edsel.att.com
(908) 957-6099
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: beaulieu@bose.com (Larry Beaulieu)
Subject: Re: Sun 3/80 questions
Originator: beaulieu@winston
Organization: Bose Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:23:38 GMT


In article <16152@borg.cs.unc.edu>, mueller@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Carl Mueller) writes:
|> I've just added 8 meg of RAM to my 3/80, which originally
|> had 8.  On powerup, the machine now knows that it has 16
|> meg, but still only tests 8.  How do I make it test all 16?
|> Is there a location in the EEPROM that I need to change?
|> 

	You need to modify the memsize and memtest options
	as root using the 'eeprom' command.  Using the 
	command w/o any options will display the current
	settings.

|> Also, I happen to have a CG4 framebuffer from a Sun 3/60
|> availble.  I was able to physically plug it in by removing
|> the back panel of the 3/80, but the machine didn't seem to
|> know what to do with this CG4.  Is this framebuffer useable
|> with a 3/80?  If so, how?  If not, does anybody want to
|> trade with me for a 3/80 model, or even buy this fb?
|> 

	The boot prom probably needs to be modified using the 
	PROM monitor to recognize the existence of the CG4
	vs. the monochrome frame buffer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: laszlo@anchor.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth)
Subject: sun 4300 series cpu and memory
Organization: University of Colorado Boulder, Pizza Disposal Group
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 22:23:30 GMT

according to our conifg manual it appears that you can only have 1
memory board with the 4300 series cpu's. is this true? trial and
error are proving it to be true (but i really didn't have enough
down time schedule to be sure).


Laszlo Nemeth
laszlo@cs.colorado.edu
University Colorado, Computer Science Department
CSOps (303) 492-5720
From: fowler@de01.denver.waii.com (Paul Fowler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Unidentified Sun 3 hardware
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:33:53 GMT
Reply-To: fowler@de01.denver.waii.com
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Organization: Western Geophysical

(This is posted for a friend.  Please respond by email
 to Reginald Beardsley at beardsl@dal.mobil.com.  Thanks.)

I just bought a Sun 3/140 with an unidentified board in the card cage.

The board in question was made by Ciprico and is marked "Rimfire 3510"
It has a DB-50 connector out the back.  There is no labelling of functional
information.  Best guess is a disk controller of some type.  I'm pretty
sure it's not SCSI since it couldn't find my SCSI disk when I connected it.
The eeprom is set to boot from xy(0,2,0).  I'd appreciate any information
about.  If anyone can provide documentation please contact me and I'll send
money for copying and postage.  Thanks
 
                   Reginald Beardsley
                   beardsl@dal.mobil.com

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: Kall@Mayo.EDU
Subject: CD -> Speakerbox
Reply-To: Kall@Mayo.EDU
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 18:00:06 GMT

Has anyone connected the headphone output of the Sun CD to
a Sun Speakerbox?  It seems fairly obvious that what I've tried should
work, but nothing happens.

I connected a 1/8" stereo miniplug audio cable (from RadioShack)
from the headphone output of the CD into the audio input on the
back of the speakerbox.  I then play a CD and nothing comes out of
the speakerbox. I can play sun SOUNDS through the speakerbox
and can hear CDs through the headphone output of the CD with
a headset.

Is my speakerbox not working?????

(It's not muted).


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: swfc@cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen)
Subject: IPX with 4.1.3
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:39:08 GMT

My group just got an IPX with 4.1.3 installed.  Unfortunately, the
officially supported release in our department is 4.1.2 (they've
almost upgraded every machine).  The staff members tell me that 4.1.3
is required if the Sparc chip used in our machine is the Viking.

Can anyone tell me how I can determine the type of the Sparc chip
(other than opening the machine up)?

Thanks,
*swfc

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork)
Subject: Video wraps, grey scale mod? was Re: Sun 3 B/W monitor screw up
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:59:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.194508.15702@math.ucla.edu>
 hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu (Harold Wong) writes:

>I have a bunch of Sun 3 Black and White monitor which get out of sync.
>It's a little hard to describe but I'll try.  The image on the screen
>shifts to the right towards the middle. You can see left side image is
>now run off the screen and you see it wrapped arounf th screen but backwards,
>in gray scale and magnified.  Anybody know how to fix this problem?

I've had monitors do this occasionally, but only at initial power-on. 
When it occurs, I simply turn *just the monitor* off, then back
on, and the world is saved :).

Can someone provide the details of the "grey scale" version of these
monitors? I remember seeing something about a jumper inside some
brands that allows use with a grey scale video board.

--Steven
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.hardware:4836 comp.periphs.scsi:4875
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: cleaning fluid for Exabytes
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:12:43 GMT
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

We've recently seen supply catalog ads for Exabyte cleaning cartridges which 
use a solution called "TF" (tetrafluorosomething?). Presumably you put the 
fluid into a hole in the cartridge and then insert it, the same as with VHS 
cleaners.

They are claimed to be for use with 8mm computer data tapes/drives.

Has anyone tried these? Are they preferable to the usual Exabyte cleaning
cartridges? Does the fluid soak the tape uniformly and thoroughly, or do you
get gaps with dry tape? Any other implications?

They are somewhat cheaper than the regular things, which is the main reason
I'm asking. But I don't want to try it on our drives without some information,
since generally speaking cheaper != better. :-)

Thanks.
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: cnwietho@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Carsten Wiethoff)
Subject: Re: Serial ports and hardware flow control on SPARCstations
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:00:51 GMT

From article <14937@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, by guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris):
> 
> The CPU serial port chip hardware, if you put it in a mode where it
> stops transmitting when CTS drops, also shuts off the receiver when DCD
> drops.  I think it's there to support some DTE/DCE protocol for
> half-duplex lines, although it's also convenient for allowing some DTE
> on the other end of the wire to control the flow of data out of the
> host; CRTSCTS was put in to support the latter (e.g., talking to
> printers).
> 
> At some point, SunOS will probably support bi-directional RTS/CTS
> *software* flow control on the CPU serial ports; presumably, it'll be
> controlled with a "termiox" "ioctl".  Dunno when that'll be, though. 
> (It'll *never* provide bi-directional RTS/CTS *hardware* flow control on
> the CPU serial ports of current machines; the *hardware* is incapable of
> automatically dropping RTS.  Maybe some future Sun will have serial port
> chips that do that, but I wouldn't bet the rent money on it.)

Isn't it DTR (Data terminal ready) that has to be dropped if the input buffer
is full? 
Don't there exist drivers out there that support *software* flow control
on modem lines already? I remember Sun selling a "high speed serial driver"
but I don't know about it's capabilities. Does anyone have experience
with this?

Carsten Wiethoff
pwi@psun3.hmi.de

Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.hardware:4863 alt.sys.sun:3253
From: ram@lynx.imagen.com (m.v.s. ramanath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: SPARC Clones anyone? Hyundai, Tatung? Others?
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:18:49 GMT
Reply-To: ram@lynx.imagen.com (m.v.s. ramanath)
Organization: imagen

In article <BvLo7L.E7s@virtech.uucp>, cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
|> roode@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Dana Roode) writes:
|> 
|> >    We have looked at and spoken with Hyundai and Solbourne thus
|> >far.  I had a call into Tatung, but it was not returned.  Hyundai
|> >could sell us their SPARC2 clone for $3500 in a headless 16mb/200mb
|> >configuration - has anyone had any good or bad experience with them?
|> >Would anyone care to recommend any other clone vendor?
|> 
|> We have had a Hyundai Sparc 2 system for about 3 months. We unpacked it,
|> plugged it in and it came up with no problems.  All of the software that 
|> we have thrown at it has worked without a problem.   We have even 
|> added some sun hardware and had no problems with it.
|> 

I've got a CompuADD SS2 clone for about 3 months. It runs SunOS right off the
shrink wrapped CDROM from SunSoft and I have experienced no problems at all.
CompuAdd also give you a 1year on-site warranty and lifetime telephone
support.

Ram

NOTE: These are my opinions alone and should not be construed as anyone else's.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp ("Y.Tsuji")
Subject: Re: SCANNERS/OCR for Sun Sparcstations
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: zoo.cfi.waseda.ac.jp
Organization: Centre for Informatics, WASEDA University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 10:53:49 GMT

I am using Xerox Imaging System's Kurzweil K5200 with satisfaction
at the moment. I haven't used ScanWorx except its demo version, but
some say it is better than the PC version. I am not very sure. One
thing to keep in mind: Just by a whim I tried to copy the whole
pages of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited in Penguin paperback
yesterday. The whole process of guillotining the book, booting the PC
, interactive teaching, and saving the result to a floppy disk did not
take an hour. And the accuracy was 99.0 per cent (about 2 or 3 in a page).
 Scanning goes side by side with the recognition, so a page did not take
10 seconds after all. Quite impressive, is it?
  If you are going to OCR hundreds of books, Xerox is the choice. But for
personal use, one may have to use inferior products.

I also own a copy of Apunix's OCR. I wonder if other users of this 
software might contact me. And how about Advent Imaging's OptiX?

Dr Y Tsuji
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				ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp
From: SWT10@CCCVM.CCC.AMDAHL.COM (Scott Tyree)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: SS10 Memory Config Question
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:51:11 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corp.

I have a question about valid  memory configurations for the SS10.  We
currently have a SS10 on order with 32Mb of memory.  I'm assuming that
this 32Mb is made up using two  16Mb SIMMs.  My question then is can I
add  a 64Mb  SIMM, keeping  the existing  32Mb in  place, for  a total
memory size of 96Mb?
 
Thanks in advance
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From: gerry@keele.ac.uk (G.D.Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: upgrade to 32/64MB memory on 4/60FC-8-P3 possible?
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:26:32 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hi,
We have a Sun (SparcStaion 1) 4/60FC-8-P3 here purchased Feb '90
with a PROM version 1.1. Can this be upgraded to either 32 MB or
64 MB with 4 MB SIMMS? - we are getting conflicting information.

Clearpoint (US), who we want to buy the SIMMS off, say they will
sell us 4 X 4MB SIMMS Modules (4 X 9bits SIMMS - 80ns) to upgrade
to 16 MB with no problem - but they inform us that memory upgrades
above this are not possible.

Another firm, ATS (here in the UK) tell us there is "no problem"
going to 32 MB or 64 MB although the EEPROM version (1.1) might
be a problem. Sun (UK) tell us there is "no problem" according
to the "Field Service Engineer's Manual". Anybody know? Thanks.

--
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email:  gerry@seq1.keele.ac.uk   *   telephone :  0782 583072
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: hue@island.COM (Pond Scum)
Subject: Re: Bootable drives for SLC
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 01:39:37 GMT

lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
>Any MagDIsk I tried so far boot  with the normal monitor. MODs will
>probably not boot (I could try this; I have one). Many CD-ROM drives

Depending on the version of your ROM, you might be able to boot an MOD.
I'm pretty sure 2.0 boots off an MOD, 2.3 and above won't.  In these
cases, I make a bootable floppy and make /vmunix point to the MOD for root
and swap.

I'm not sure you can get this to work without hacking swapgeneric.c.


-Jonathan		hue@island.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bcf@pegasus.ch.adfa.oz.au (Ben Freasier)
Subject: Apple LWII NTX printcap
Summary: Title tell it all
Keywords: LWII, printcap
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 05:37:18 GMT

Folks!@#

I just got an ELC SPARCStation on my desk, and I would like to connect
an Apple LWII NTX to it. My straightforward printcap's have not
worked. Does anybody have one that works with simple non-commercial
filters?

Thanks,
Ben Freasier
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Remote ID Sun CPUs
Date: 17 Oct 92 02:29:42 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>Turns out that "devinfo" is not implemented on the old Sun-3
>architecture "yet" and probably never will be.

Never had it, never will.  "devinfo" is an OPEN PROMism; no (released)
Sun-3 (or Sun-3x) machine had an OPEN PROM monitor (I don't know if any
unreleased machines did), and since there almost certainly won't ever be
another Sun-3 machine coming out, there won't be any future Sun-3s to
get one.

>case $hex in
>  0???????)	arch="Sun-2"	;;
>  1???????)	arch="Sun-3"	;;
>  2???????)	arch="Sun-4"	;;
>  4???????)	arch="Sun-3x"	;;
>  5???????)	arch="Sun-4c"	;;
>  7???????)	arch="Sun-4m"	;;
>  *)		arch="Sun-?"	;;
>esac

Add:

   6???????)	arch="Sun-4e"	;;

>case $hex in

	...

>esac

Replace:

  [12]??????)	mach='Sun-2' ;;

with

  1??????)	mach='Multibus Sun-2' ;;
  2??????)	mach='VMEbus Sun-2' ;;

Add:

  61??????)	mach='SPARCengine 1E' ;;	#

Replace:

  72??????)	mach="? (0x$hex)" ;;		#

with

  72??????)	mach="SS10" ;;			#

(at least according to the 4.1.3 Sun-4m "cpu.h" file).

And, if you care about code names:

>  54??????)	mach='SLC (4/20)' ;;		# 

"Off-Campus", as I remember.

>  55??????)	mach='SS2 (4/75)' ;;		# 

"Calvin".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: fwp@Jester.CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Subject: Re: Running a Sun without a swap partition or file
Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:42:56 GMT

In article <1824@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) says:
: 
: Anyway, this got me to wish that there was an option to run a SunOS system
: without any backing swap partion or file at all. Ie, it should only use
: the system RAM and never page or swap..

Run Solaris 2.x.  I've seen an IPC with 36MB of RAM run S2.0, including
a very reasonable open windows session, with no swap devices at all.
You would then, of course, need to have enough RAM to support whatever
you want to do.  But it does work.
--
Frank Peters  -  UNIX Systems Programmer  -  Mississippi State University
Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu  -  Phone: (601)325-7030  -  FAX: (601)325-8921
From: tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Tim Auckland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Plenty of free space on drive, but 100%
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:07:57 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

In article <0105002B.fpv2hc@digtype.airage.com>, Jeff@digtype.airage.com (Jeff Wasilko) writes:

|> > should, but not how... If I remember correctly, the 4.3 BSD kernel will
|> > switch automatically between "space" and "time" whenever you cross the
|> > 10% line, dunno why SunOS doesn't (this is all on 4.1.1).
|> 
|> 
|> I've gotten a number of console messages about switching between space
|> and time optimization as the partion got overfilled. 

Every version of SunOS I've seen (4.0.2 -> 4.1.3) has switched automatically but
you generally have to go way over the 10% line.  As I understand it you can chose
linear time + exponential space or linear space + exponential time when
allocating new blocks.  The precise point at which it is optimal to change may
require some care.  An arbitrary figure like 10% is unlikely to be right,
however, having not seen the source, I don't deny that Sun may have chosen
another equally arbitrary figure.

Tim.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: searsk@med.ge.com (Kevin D. Sears)
Subject: RFC: NeWSprint & LW2g
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: GE Medical Systems
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 02:42:22 GMT

I'm about to convert my print server which is running on a Sun 3/260(SunOS
4.0.3) with Sun TranScript(v2.1.1+Adobe pscomm patch) to a Sun 670MP(SunOS
4.1.2) with NeWSprint(v2.0). The print server drives Apple LaserWriter
IIg's.

Now Adobe graciously fixed my TranScript to work with Apple's serial port
driver problem. Anyone experience good or bad results with NeWSprint
2.0(especially with the LW 2g)?


Who: Kevin D. Sears-searsk@med.ge.com
What: System and Network Admin(a.k.a "Sr. Maintenance Droid")
Where: GE Medical Systems
Disclaimer: I know nothing for sure but I sure try hard!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tibbs@bifur.math.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Subject: Upgrade to 4.1.3 trashes login prompt?
Organization: Blob Shop Programmers
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:36:45 GMT

The recent upgrade of our entire network to 4.1.3 has gone smoothly, but
something strange has happened.  Where, on boot-up, a machine used to
display, for example, 
Hopf login:

It now displays
 o f  o in:

This has happened on several machines, but not on some and with no visible
correlation.  Also, hitting return at the prompt will do a linefeed, but no
carriage return.  A normal user-id and password can be entered and all is
fine so it's not a big problem but it is annoying.

Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks,
--
 Jason L. Tibbitts III - tibbs@math.uh.edu - 713/743-3466 - 685PGH
System Administrator:  University of Houston Mathematics Department
 Houston Centers for Advanced Scientific and Molecular Computation
Blob Shop Programmers: Database consulting and graphics programming