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From: bonafini@manvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Andy Bonaffini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Host Memory Accessable from VMEbus
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:55:44 GMT
Organization: IBM Manassas
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I need to determine how to set aside a large area of host memory
which is accessable from the VMEbus.  The system is composed of a
Sun 4/630 host running SunOS 4.1.2.  I have done this with a small
amount of memory by writing a device driver which obtains a buffer
from the IOPB map, and then passes the VME physical address of the
buffer to the VME device which will access the memory.  From the Sun
driver development manual it appears that this approach is limited to
an 8 KB buffer.  Since I need a 1-2 MB buffer the manual indicates the
allocation must be made from DVMA space, but it is not clear to me how
to go about this.  In addition, I would like the memory to be accessable
from a user process so that transfers between kernel and user address
space are not necessary.  Any guidance or code samples that can be
provided will be greatly appreciated.

Responses may be sent directly to my e-mail address below.

Andy Bonaffini
IBM Federal Systems Co.
Manassas, VA
bonafini@manvm2.vnet.ibm.com
From: seamans@nlm.nih.gov (James R. Seamans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: I hate my /etc/printcap.
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:51:10 GMT
Reply-To: seamans@nlm.nih.gov
Organization: National Library of Medicine

In article 1155@racerx.bridge.COM, ken@racerx.bridge.COM (Ken Hardy) writes:
>In article <185o90INNfu@shirley.cs.widener.edu> ware@cs.widener.edu (Mark Ware) writes:
>>Ive tried and tried to get my HPLJ3 to print a binary but alas, my printcap
>>entry is bogus.
>....
>>attached to the sun4 serially(sp?))  Does anyone know what the proper 
>>printcap entry would look like.  Ive read the man pages and the admin
>I believe you need to _not_ set bits 6030 in and fs# entry, or
>explicitly set them off with fc#6030.  Easier to understand is '-opost'
>in an ms= entry, which does the same thing, and you can actually
>comprehend its meaning from looking at it.  Maybe throw in a 'cs8'
>as well for good measure.
>-- 
>
>Ken Hardy
>ken@bridge.com  (racerx!ken)


As a side note to this.. I was told by Sun Tech support not to mix
fs,fc, xc or xs with any of the stty settings ie.,

        :ms=cstopb,-parenb,cs8:hupcl:ixon,ixoff:\


The results are confusing and undefined.


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From: shepler@gumby.austin.ibm.com ( Spencer Shepler )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: NFS Problem
Date: 8 Sep 92 03:42:57 GMT
Organization: PSLOB. IBM Austin, Tx

In article <1992Sep4.080327.13580@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Joerg Wedeck) writes:

   The problem is that the creat system call is malfunctioning and damaging
   the file-system on the RS6000 file server.
   when i try to do a creat call on a directory an error should be returned.
   on a sun, using a sun file server, this works correctly, also between the
   rs6000 workstations. when i use creat on a directory on a sun with a
   file-system mounted from an RS6000 machine, no error is return, instead the
   directory is truncated to zero length (!!).
   trying this the other way round (ibm rs6000 has mounted a file-system from
   a sun) no problem occurs.

   Now the question: Whose fault might it be ? IBM or Sun ?

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Joerg,

   There was problem in the AIX 3.1 NFS server that allowed a client
to successfully execute a create/truncate on a directory.  This
problem has been fixed in AIXv3 so that it will not allow the client
to truncate the directory.

   As to which system is truly at fault?  SunOS isn't very nice to do
the create/truncate on the directory but it is certainly wrong of the
AIX NFS server not to protect itself. :-)

Spencer
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From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: CAP on a Sparc2...Help
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:16:23 GMT

I've got a SUN SPARC2 which I am trying to compile CAP 6.0 (with the
fixes already in place), but I seem to be having probems.  Everything
compiles fine.  

Basically, I want to run as a LW spooler and have a LW slung off the 
sparc for UNIX users as well.  It's a phase 2 appletalk network, but
everytime the AARPD gets run I get the following error

ld.so: Undefined symbol: _net_range_start

I read the docs and searched around in the source code, but couldn't
spend any major amounts of time in the miles of source.

Has anyone run into this problem?  Can anyone point me in the right
direction?

System Config

Sun Sparc 2 
32M mem
600M disk space
SunOS 4.1.1

Thanks...Ken Lam
	 lam@jove.cofc.edu
From: mpinones@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Marco A. Pinones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: files *.h
Date: 16 Sep 1992 01:14:48 GMT
Organization: I.T.E.S.M. Campus Monterrey

When trying to install Teltool on our SparcStation 2, just
find that there are not *.h files on /usr/include/sunview
neither /usr/include/sunwindow. Are those files copyrighted
or can i get them somewhere? If they are PD, could somebody
please tell me where to get them?
Thanks a lot.
 
Marco A. Pinones                                      
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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Number of semaphore
Date: 13 Sep 92 07:32:40 GMT
Organization: cic

ahalim@ics.uci.edu writes:


>Under SunOS 4.1.2 the default max number of semaphores is 60 (system-wide).
>Is is possible to reconfigure the kernel with more than 60 semaphores?

From /sys/sys/sem.h:

/*
 *      Configuration Parameters
 * These parameters are tuned by editing the system configuration file.
 * The following lines establish the default values.
 */
#ifndef SEMMNI
#define SEMMNI  10              /* # of semaphore identifiers */
#endif
#ifndef SEMMNS
#define SEMMNS  60              /* # of semaphores in system */
#endif
#ifndef SEMUME
#define SEMUME  10              /* max # of undo entries per process */
#endif
#ifndef SEMMNU
#define SEMMNU  30              /* # of undo structures in system */
#endif

You change these in your sysgen file (i.e. GENERIC) like this:

	options SEMMNS=<whatever you like>
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From: shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi)
Subject: 8500 8mm drives and Sparc II's
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 06:35:54 GMT

Dear all,

I might be upgrading my current 8200 [2.2 Gig] 8mm to an 8500 [5
Gig] 8mm tape drive.  I am curious to know if the /dev/rstx device
will support the 5 Gig drive??  What device should I use if I wish
to write in 8200 format??  Any help would be helpful.

Shahryar

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: Re: Advice re: netting Sparc w/ Macs
Reply-To: motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:15:41 GMT

theory@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Concurrent Computation Group) writes:

>We currently have a twisted pair phone/AppleShare net of Macs
>which access telnet by dialing another dec/ultrix machine (using 
>Eudora or Kermit). We are not wired to access the telnet directly. We're 
>getting a Sparc IP fileserver which needs to be added to the net for printer 
>access, as well as connected to machine with telnet access (UUCP for the 
>latter, yes?).

Wow, this is a big subject.  There are several ways to approach
this problem.

ASSUMPTION: I assume that your Macs are currently on a twisted pair
LOCALTALK network, rather than a twisted pair 10baseT ethernet network.
The way to tell is that LocalTalk plugs into the "printer" port of the 
Mac and comes as part of the Mac when it ships, all you need is an
inexpensive transceiver.  EtherNet connects to an internal board or 
device that is an add-on to the Mac and requires a relatively expensive
ethernet transceiver or 10baseT backbone.

What to do:
------------
1) Attach the localtalk Macintosh network to the ethernet Sparc IP 
fileserver network with a gateway from Cayman or Shiva.  This is 
one device that you add and configure.  The configuation is a bit
complicated and the gateway is about $1200 or more.  Then again`
this solution is only one device rather than a change to all 
workstations on the network.

2) Convert the Macs to ethernet.  If 10baseT exists, this is a 
fairly cheap solution at ~$150 a Mac interface board.  Easy to 
set up.  If thinnet exists, this is also a fairly cheap solution,
you just have to mess with coax between all the macs.  If 
thicknet exists, then the cost is the same but you need a bunch
of AUI cables.  Configuration in all Mac cases is a no-brainer.

My vote is for 10baseT all around.  Easy to install and maintain.
Cheaper in the long run after you figure in all the intangibles.
Side benefit: much improved Mac network speeds.

Ultimately, when the Macs are connected to the Ethernet network,
they can communicate directly to the Unix boxes via any number 
of commercial tools (without dialup/in).  The cheapest is NCSA
Telnet (free!).

Good luck, John
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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1.2 XDR alignment requirements?
Keywords: SunOS XDR alignment
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:55:06 GMT

schorr@ead.dsa.com (Andrew J. Schorr) writes:

>It appears (although this is undocumented) that the
>buffer supplied in a call to xdrmem_create must be
>aligned on a 4-byte boundary.  On a SparcStation 1
>running SunOS 4.1.2, consider the following session script:

>   schorr@dead: cat xdr.c
>   #include <rpc/rpc.h>

>   main()
>   {
>      int x;
>      char buf[100];
>      XDR xdr;

>   #define OFFSET 1

>      xdrmem_create(&xdr,&buf[OFFSET],sizeof(buf)-OFFSET,XDR_ENCODE);
>      printf("%d\n",xdr_int(&xdr,&x));
>   }

The xdrmem_create manual states (sunOS 4.1.2):

void xdrmem_create(xdrs, addr, size, op)
     XDR *xdrs;
     char *addr;
     u_int size;
     enum xdr_op op;

          This routine initializes the XDR stream object  pointed
          to  by  xdrs.  The stream's data is written to, or read
          from, a chunk of memory at location addr  whose  length
          is no more than size bytes long.  size should be a mul-
          tiple of 4.  The op determines the direction of the XDR
          stream (either XDR_ENCODE, XDR_DECODE, or XDR_FREE).

This means that sizeof(buf) - OFFSET is not allowed as size
argument to xdrmem_create. The source code reveals that
xdrmem_*() routines do require a 4 byte alignment:


sunrpc4.0/xdr_mem.c:xdrmem_putlong()

        *(long *)xdrs->x_private = (long)htonl((u_long)(*lp));

xdrs->x_private is the pointer you supplied.

Is 4 bytes alignment a big problem for you?

Casper

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From: harold@cc.gatech.edu (Harold C. Forbes)
Subject: TFS mounting /usr?
Summary: How to TFS mount local and remote /usr's, so local searched first?
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:40:13 GMT

I would like to TFS mount /usr so that the local /usr is searched first and
then the remote /usr.  Unfortunately, it appears that TFS searches the 
last mounted filesystem first.  The only ways I can figure to get the
system booted and have the local /usr searched before the remote /usr are:

1.  TFS mount local /usr
    TFS mount remote /usr
    TFS mount local /usr

The local /usr gets mounted twice and, in a failed search, gets searched
twice.

2.  Create a minimal /usr with just the stuff necessary to boot the system,
    TFS mount minimal /usr
    TFS mount remote /usr
    TFS mount local /usr

Nothing gets searched twice, since minimal /usr and local /usr contain
different stuff, and the stuff in minimal /usr is not likely to be needed
except at boot time(?).

I would appreciate any comments on these setups or different setups and from
anyone with experience with TFS.  I still running SunOS 4.1.1, if it makes
a difference.

Many thanks.
	harold




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From: davidk@csis.dit.csiro.au (David Keightley)
Subject: SCSA SCSI Driver development
Summary: Drivers...alot can happen in a day
Keywords: SCSI SCSA driver device
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:03:21 GMT

This morning I sent a letter asking a number of questions about
SCSI drivers.  In particular I was interested in SCSA Sun SPARC
drivers.  Well I've answered a number of my own questions, and
received a tip from someone on the net (thanks Jim Davis). I'm
putting the slave and attach routines in now, I should config
by tomorrow morning.  I'll let you-all know what happens.

Cheers,


David Keightley
davidk@csis.dit.csiro.au

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From: brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM (Brent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: automounter swamps mountd
Date: 16 Sep 1992 01:10:30 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: terra

In article lbaa6oINNlei@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu, fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes:
>Why is it so easy to swamp rpc.mountd with mount requests?
>  :
> Why can't mountd keep up?  Or perhaps this is really a
>problem with inetd?  (I run mountd under inetd).

Bad idea.  NFS clients broadcast an "unmount all" request when they boot up in order
to remove stale entries from the /etc/rmtab file on any servers it may have mounted
from.  Any machine that has mountd run by inetd, and can hear the broadcast - will 
fire up inetd if it's not running already.   Worst case: lots of client-only machines
get a useless mountd fired up.


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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Help: How to Create extract_unbundled tape
Date: 12 Sep 92 13:29:08 GMT
Organization: cic

thg@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Terry Gong) writes:

>How does one create an extract_unbundled tape?  For example, I
>have a copyright file that I want to copy to the tape.  Everyting
>time I used the command:

>   dd if=copyright of=/dev/rst0

>or
>   dd if=copyright of=/dev/nrst0

>I get the error message:

>   dd: write: Invalid argument

>What am I doing wrong?  Does anyone have a step by step procedure to
>create the tape?

1) You have to write QIC tapes in multiples of their block size;
   they are fixed block devices. In this case the block length is 512 bytes.

   The correct incantation is:

	dd if=copyright of=/dev/nrst0 bs=512 conv=sync

   The conv=sync will block up the last block to a full 512 bytes.

2) Here is the script I'm using: (Minus the details)


#!/bin/csh -fb

set DEVICE=TAPE

while (/$1/ =~ /-*/)
	switch ($1)
	case -t:
		set DEVICE=TAPE
		breaksw
	case -f:
		set DEVICE=FLOPPY
		breaksw
	case --:
		shift
		break
	case \?:
		goto error
	endsw
	shift
end

if ($#argv < 1)) goto error
endif

switch ($DEVICE)
case FLOPPY:
	echo Floppy distribution not yet implemented
	exit
	fdformat
	tar cvbf 126 /dev/rfd0c sys usr
	eject
	breaksw
case TAPE:
	if (! { mt -f /dev/nrst0 rew } ) exit 1
	dd if=Label of=/dev/nrst0
	foreach d (File1 File2 File3 File4 File5)
		(cd $d; tar cvbfh 126 /dev/nrst0 *)
	end
	mt -f /dev/nrst0 rew
	breaksw
default:
	echo Internal Error: Unknown Medium
	exit 1
endsw

exit 0

error:

echo "Aufruf: $0 [-f|-t] hostid ..."
exit 1
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Subject: HP Deskjet 500C filter
From: fsb@sparc.vitro.com (Steve Brailsford)
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:53:45 GMT
Keywords: hp deskjet 500c


Is there a printer filter that supports the Deskjet 500C
printer on a Sparcstation?  Newsprint supports the 500
but not the 500C.
Thanks

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From: johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 Tapes
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:03:41 GMT

Another 2 cents:

We use both data grade and video grade tapes on our 8500 w/compression. 
I've had acceptable performance with both.  Our drive (from Contemporary 
Cybernetics Group) has a display that indicates % of re-writes.  The book
indicates acceptable performance.  Typical % re-writes with the exabyte tapes
are about .1 %.  Typical for video (Sony MP video tapes) is about .3 %.  In
my mind if the %age creaps up over .5% it is probably time to replace the
tape.
 
  -john

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From: sangho@runge.mit.edu (Sangho Yoon)
Subject: Anyone know what a "writeback error" is?
Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 02:26:48 GMT

I've been getting these errors every time I try to run dump onto an exabyte.
The system is configured like this :

4/260 running SunOS 4.1.1
24MB memory
Seagate 42100N SCSI drive
Sun shoebox with 669MB SCSI drive and 2.3GB 8mm tape
Maxtor 8760E ESDI drive on a Emulex MD21 
cgtwo color frame buffer

The dumps proceed fine for a while but after it has dumped about 200 megs
or so, the system crashes with the following error:

Memory Error Register d4<INTR,INTENA,CE_ENA,WBACKERR>
DVMA = 0, context = 0, virtual address = fff37ffc
pme = 0, physical address = 1ffc
panic: writeback error
syncing Memory Error Register 1bd4<INTR,INTENA,CE_ENA,WBACKERR>
DVMA = 1, context = d, virtual address = fff17fe0
pme = e200033e, physical address = 67dfe0
panic: writeback error
00240 low-memory static kernel pages
00170 additional static and sysmap kernel pages
00000 dynamic kernel data pages
00096 additional user structure pages
00000 segmap kernel pages
00000 segvn kernel pages
00002 current user process pages
00060 user stack pages
00568 total pages (568 chunks)
 
dumping to vp ff177894, offset 120464


The same error occurs whether I use a local 8mm tape or a remote 8mm tape.
Does anyone have any clues as to what might be causing this problem?

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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: automounter swamps mountd
Date: 14 Sep 1992 19:05:44 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: deepthought.cs.utexas.edu

Why is it so easy to swamp rpc.mountd with mount requests?

The use of the automounter on the clients seems to exacerbate the problem,
though I have seen it happen without the automounter, too.  Once mountd
falls behind, it never catches up.  Even if no new requests arrive.
The unread data on the mountd socket never gets drained.

This example is on a Sequent NFS server, but I've seen similar behaviour
under SunOS 4.1.1.
  
  cs.utexas.edu% rpcinfo -p localhost | grep mountd
      100005    1   udp   1553  mountd
  cs.utexas.edu% netstat -n -a | egrep "Proto|1553"
  Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
  udp    32572      0  *.1553                 *.*                   
  cs.utexas.edu%

32k of unread data represents an enormous number of outstanding mount
requests.  Why can't mountd keep up?  Or perhaps this is really a
problem with inetd?  (I run mountd under inetd).

Fletcher
From: rrezaian@austral.chi.il.us (Russell Rezaian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help:  Booting a 2/50 from tape.
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:32:14 GMT
Organization: DOC Data Processing Systems

I have a 2/50, ROM revision Q, with a Sun2 SCSI board, and 6 megs of RAM
that I want to bring up on my network here.  I plan to run SunOS 3.5 on
it, and possibly Xkernel on ocasion.

When I tried to boot the machine from tape using the Shoebox from my
server (60 meg archive tape drive, with the Emulex board, 141 meg ESDI
drive with that emulex board.  A standard Sun shoebox, works fine on
the server...) It seemed to find the tape drive, spin it for a while, and
then gave me a "sense error."

This was using tape one of the 3.5 tapes.  Now, I know that the 3.5
distribution is not QIC-24 format, and I have not been able to boot the
server using a different set of 3.5 tapes (I have a set of tapes for that
architecture too).

My question is, do I have to do something strange to get the 2/50 to boot?
Like reconfigure the Emulex board on the tape drive?  Am I forced to see
if I can find an older Systek tape drive?

If I could boot the Sun 3 server with the sun3 3.5 tapes I would be
inclined to think that my problem is simply that the 2/50 doesn't know how
to boot from the "newer" style tape drive.  Or that my 3.5 tapes are bad.
But I have a hard time believing that both sets of tapes are bad...

Any pointers would be appreciated!
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