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From: hyler@jaana.ast.saic.com (Buffy Hyler)
Subject: How Loud is My Sun?
Reply-To: hyler@jaana.ast.saic.com
Organization: SAIC
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:42:19 GMT

Ok, the simple question is "how loud can I play a sound on my Sun, as
in sounding alarms"?

I'm not sure exactly what I am looking for in an answer but the
management is asking for decibel values.  We have a call into Sun but
for the moment are unable to get the right person with the answer.
(FYI, I am not an audio knowledgeble person...!)

The system is a Sparc2 workstation.

So, does anyone have an answer, or can supply me with a better way to
phrase the above question in order to get a reasonable answer?

Also, as a side note, has anyone out there attached an amplifier or
sounding system to sound alarms generated by an application?  If so,
could you pass on any data that might be useful to our future needs?

Thanks in advance!

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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! New 3/60 owner needs help with configuration
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:42:05 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <1992Sep3.221120.9474@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes:
<
<I just bought a Sun 3/60 color system with two shoeboxes: One is a
<141MB HD, the other a 141MB HD w/60MB Tape. I have the cables and
<the SCSI terminator.
< 
<The problem is this: the system only works when I hook up *just*
<the hard drive. And it only boots manually. When I hook up the
<other shoebox and try to boot, it just sits there.
< 
<I already know that the HD/Tape box does not have a system on it.
<I would like to find out how to get both drives running, get the
<second hard drive formatted and mounted, and get the tape drive
<working.
< 
<Then I'll worry about getting the rest of the system up and running!

You gotta change the SCSI address of the hard drive on the box with the
tape drive.  You have two SCSI addresses the same, so it will fail.
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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Serial port communication packages
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:27:46 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <derry.715459238@milton> derry@milton.u.washington.edu (Derry Lyons) writes:
<I haven't been able to get Pcomm to work...I get a compiler
<error, which probably has something to do with the AT&T unix
<setup of the thing.  Has anyone experienced this problem and
<found any workarounds?

Pcomm compiles just fine on a Sun with SunOS 4.1.1+.  You must use the SysV
version of the cc compiler.
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From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
Subject: Re: Serial port communication packages
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:01:02 GMT

derry@milton.u.washington.edu (Derry Lyons) writes:

>I haven't been able to get Pcomm to work...I get a compiler
>error, which probably has something to do with the AT&T unix
>setup of the thing.  Has anyone experienced this problem and
>found any workarounds?

>For the record, C-Kermit looks good, but is there a way to get
>interactive terminal sessions from it?  It appears that you must
>have a kermit server ANSWERING the phone on the other end. 

>"...what?  Oh, him.  That's just Derry showing off his ignorance
>again..."
>					:-)  Derry

The last time I tried PCOMM, it required you to specify the sys5 cc.
I am nearly certain this is talked about in the documentation.

From your comment about kermit, I infer you are not very good at reading the
docs OR not very good at poking around.  You get kermit to go into
interactive mode from the local controlling terminal by setting the line and
the baud rate, either on invocation, interactively, or with an rc file
(.kermrc).  Once you get the kermit prompt, then type c to go into connect
mode and you can start typing commands to your modem.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jiazhang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jiajie Zhang)
Subject: Q: connecting a postscript printer to the serial port of a sparc
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:20:07 GMT


I thought it's a trivial task.  But after spending more than three
hours on the setup, I was totally confused.

The printer (Apple LaserWriter IIf) and the sparc 2 are connected via
their serial ports by a null modem cable, as instructed.  I
reconfigured the RS432 on the sparc to RS232, also as instructed.  The
connection seems ok, since I can send signals to the printer by "cat
foo > /dev/ttya".  But I can not get anything printed out on the printer.

In the file /etc/ttytab, I changed the line

ttya   "/usr/etc/getty std.9600"       unknown         on local secure

TO

ttya    none                            unknown         on local secure

to prevent the execution of getty on port A, which is the device name
for the printer.  

I copied the printcap from another Sun that has similar settings and
made necessary changes to reflect the situations on my machine.

However, whenever I used lpq to list the queue, I always got something like
"daemon not present".   After I typed /usr/lib/lpd to activate the lpd
daemon manually, I got the same message.  After I used lpc to activate
the printer, I still got the same thing.

Any ideas on what the problems are?  Anyone has succeeded on the setup
with a similar setting (postscript printer connected to the serial
port of a sparc)?  

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Jiajie Zhang
Department of Psychology
Ohio State University
jiazhang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu




Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: tch@kepler.unh.edu (Travis C Hayes)
Subject: Need some clarification on 3/60 models...
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:50:57 GMT


I have noticed several models of SUN 3/60 on the net and I am wondering
about the differences. These are the models I've seen:

3/60M  - the only one I've actually seen (I'm using one now)
3/60LE
3/60C
3/60FC

Are there even more models? Could somebody please enlighten me about
what each of these is. Are some specifically newer than others,
are they all 20MHz 020s, do they all include 68881s, do they all look
the same, etc.?

Thanks in advance.

Travis Hayes
tch@unh.edu


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
Subject: FAX modem, scanner for Sun
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:45:58 GMT


We are contemplating buying a fax modem and a scanner for our
Sun.  Does anyone out there have opinions and/or experiences with
either of these devices?  Thanks.
-- 
"Land of song, said the warrior bard,           Jim Heath
Though all the world betrays thee.
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, (The Minstrel Boy)
One faithful harp will praise thee."         (Thomas Moore)
From: marcello@deis21.cineca.it (Marcello Dalpasso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: how to connect a modem to a Sun SPARCstation?
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:35:04 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science & Systems, Univ. of Bologna, Italy


Hi netters,

I'm wondering about connecting a modem to my Sun SPARCstation 1+ (SunOS 4.1.1)
via its serial port.

In particular, I would get the following situation:

1) At home, call the Sun from my PC via kermit and my modem.
2) The modem connected to the Sun replies (it has the auto-answer facility)
3) The Sun offers the login prompt
4) I login into my Sun account
5) I start a program (or a shell-script) such that:
 a) I can hang up at home
 b) In a few seconds, the Sun dials my home phone number
 c) My PC replies to the incoming call and gets a login prompt by the Sun.

Is this procedure possible?
I think so, but I cannot figure out which setup to perform on my Sun and which
software (Public Domain...) I must use.

Any solution is welcome, even partial.
Please reply by e-mail, and I will post a summary.

Thanks in advance.

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	Phone: +39-51-644-3015 (fax: +39-51-644-3073)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork)
Subject: Re: Sun-2 CPUs and os 4.0.3
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:38:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.224252.11708@nobeltech.se> ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson) writes:
>
>Hi. 
>
>I was playing around with an old SUN-2, and tried to boot it diskless from a
>3/280 running 4.1.1_U1. It boots ok until after doing the root on server:,
>swap on server:,dump on server: part , then it crashes with some PROT VIOL
>or if it was access violation. I know some versions of PROM doesn't run
>version 4 of SunOS correctly. Does anybody know which PROMs I should have,
>and if there are any other things that make this impossible ( not just
>unsupported, which this configuration of course is) ?

You need four megabytes of memory, plus on the Multibus sun 2's, you
need to have all four of the jumpers installed on the non-prime CPU
boards that are along the bottom left corner, by the 8289 bus arbiter
chip. Check both these items, and your unit should then boot.

I've never heard of boot prom problems, hmmm.

--Steven
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Sun-2 CPUs and os 4.0.3
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:38:32 GMT
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden

bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork) writes:

>In article <1992Sep7.224252.11708@nobeltech.se> ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson) writes:
>>
>>Hi. 
>>
>>I was playing around with an old SUN-2, and tried to boot it diskless from a
>>3/280 running 4.1.1_U1. It boots ok until after doing the root on server:,
>>swap on server:,dump on server: part , then it crashes with some PROT VIOL
>>or if it was access violation. I know some versions of PROM doesn't run
>>version 4 of SunOS correctly. Does anybody know which PROMs I should have,
>>and if there are any other things that make this impossible ( not just
>>unsupported, which this configuration of course is) ?

>You need four megabytes of memory, plus on the Multibus sun 2's, you
>need to have all four of the jumpers installed on the non-prime CPU
>boards that are along the bottom left corner, by the 8289 bus arbiter
>chip. Check both these items, and your unit should then boot.

3MB of RAM works fine. We have two Sun 2/120's running SunOS 4.0.3
with just that. They boot diskless from our Sun 4/380. We used to
boot a Sun 2/50 from the same machine also.

/Peter

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From: mueller@io.cs.unc.edu (Carl Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Wangtek 5125ES?
Date: 12 Sep 92 19:49:05 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Does anyone have any information on this drive?  I'd like
to know what formats it supports, and how I can obtain an
OEM manual for it.  Thanks!

-Carl (mueller@cs.unc.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: cgh018@tijc02.uucp (Calvin Hayden x2254)
Subject: Re: HELP: Watchdog reset/Window UnderflowType
Organization: Siemens Industrial Automation, Johnson City TN
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 15:43:32 GMT

From article <92252.162818SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, by Shermane Austin <SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET>:
> My SPARC 1 is failing to complete the boot sequence and dropping into
> the command mode with a "Watchdog reset/Window UnderflowType" message.
> It appears that there is a hardware problem. I have a brand new system
> board(obtained in the spring). but I have been getting a message indicating
> Before the watchdog reset message began appearing, my OW sessions were
> being aborted because of a bad memory chip.
>                                I have had bad memory before but nothing
> like this has ever happened.  I am waiting on good memory - it takes a
> while get here. In the meantime, I can't use my machine at all.
> 
> Could someone please explain what watchdog reset means and what window
> underflowtype(as the specific error message) means? I have a full
> set of docs for my machine but can't find it. Also, I would appreciate
> any hints as to what to test or what the problem could be.
> 
> A while back I think there were some posts on watchdog reset - if anyone
> has a summary of those, please pass them on.
> 
> Please email any suggestions. Thanks.
 I placed a call recently on such a problem.  It involved watchdog resets,
and window underflow.  This was occuring on a SS1, with Monochrome monitor.
Sun said it was probably a bad framebuffer.  I replaced it and have not seen 
the problem again.  Mine would also occasionally "hang" or appear to have
a jittery screen.

Calvin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mikulska@crux.Princeton.EDU (Margaret Mikulska)
Subject: Re: Need some clarification on 3/60 models...
Summary: monitors
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:07:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.135057.19221@newshost.unh.edu> tch@kepler.unh.edu (Travis C Hayes) writes:
>
>I have noticed several models of SUN 3/60 on the net and I am wondering
>about the differences. These are the models I've seen:
>
>3/60M  - the only one I've actually seen (I'm using one now)
>3/60LE
>3/60C
>3/60FC
>
>Are there even more models? Could somebody please enlighten me about
>what each of these is. 

These are just monitor codes.

M - mono, 19"
C - color, 19"
FC - color, 16" (maybe 17" - anyway, smaller than 19")
LE - hm... don't recall this one.  You sure it was LE?  There used to be
some Sun3s (3/110) with LC (Low Cost) color monitor - small and crummy 
monitors, only 15. 
I believe there was also FM - mono, 16" or 17".

Monitor-less systems would be 3/60S (Server).

>Are some specifically newer than others,
>are they all 20MHz 020s, do they all include 68881s, do they all look
>the same, etc.?

As far as I know, these codes refer only to different monitors; no other
differences.  Same CPU, for sure.


Margaret Mikulska
mikulska@astro.princeton.edu

Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University
From: mlg@siemens.com. (Michael Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How do I hook up two monitors to an IPX?
Date: 10 Sep 92 12:30:08 GMT

epc1@quads.uchicago.edu (Merlin) writes:

>Hi,

>Can anyone help me set up two monitors to an IPX?  I think I know what software
>modifications need to be done so that olwm and mwm uses both monitors; however,
>where do I plug in the second monitor on my IPX?

>Any thing tricky I need to know to get olwm to recoginize both monitors?

>In addition, I have another question.  
>I know that the IPX uses a 40MHz SPARC.  However, how many mips is the IPX?
>Is it similar in performance to the SPARC2?  I hear that they use the same
>processor.  How many mips are the IPC and the ELC? 

>Thanks for help on any of these questions.

>-- 
>En Pum Cho					
>University of Chicago Class of 1994
>math & economics major
>epc1@midway.uchicago.edu

You need to purchase another frame buffer which must then be installed
in your IPX (about $600 for a monochrome FB). Unlke the IPC, the IPX
contains only one frame buffer,  If you run X (r4 or r5), you do not
have to do anything (at all) to use both monitors.  With openwin, you
must specify which monitors to use on the command line.  I have two
monitors on my machine and use the following command to start openwin:

  openwin -dev /dev/cgsix0 -dev /dev/bwtwo0 right

/dev/cgsix0 is the built in frame buffer, /dev/bwtwo0 was the one I added on.
The command tells openwin than bwtwo0 is to the right of cgsix0.

olwm & twm will automatically control both monitors with no extra work
required.  I do not know about mwm.

I hope this helps,


--
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Siemens Corporate Research             phone: 609-734-3347
755 College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08540
From: ppineda@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Will code for food. )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Using a NEC CDR-72 CD-ROM reader on an SLC
Keywords: CD ROM SCSI NEC HELP
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:49:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


I would have to disagree..Although SUN supports only certain types
of CD-ROMS, We have been able to boot and run a Toshiba CD-ROM
with absolutely no problems...We do get the 'Unrecognized Vendor'
message, but that's about the extent of it..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mikebo@i88.isc.com (Michael Borowiec)
Subject: Re: Sun 3/260 to Sun 4/260?
Keywords: Sun3, Sun4
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:41:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.192431.24143@ryptyde.cts.com> scott@ryptyde.cts.com (Scott McClure) writes:
>
>What is required to upgrade a Sun 3/260 to a 4/260? 
>Just a system board swap/OS swap, or is it more complicated 
>than that?  If it is possible, what is a reasonable price to pay?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Scott
>
I am also interested in doing this... Can anyone post a complete SPARC
machine list with CPU speed, MIPS (or SPECmark) rating, and capabilities.
For instance, can the 4/260 board use old 3/260 memory cards and SCSI
cards - or do we have to upgrade these too?

Whether we actually pursue this depends on whether the 4/260 is fast
enuf to make it worthwhile. If an SLC with SCSI disk is faster than a
4/260 with SMD at serving NFS, it wouldn't be worth it for us...

Thanks for any info...
- Mike

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: dfc@resumix.portal.com (Dan Currie)
Subject: Re: Super VGA monitor / how to use with a SPARC
Reply-To: dfc@resumix.portal.com
Organization: Resumix Inc., Santa Clara CA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 18:43:53 GMT

In article 19510@ector.cs.purdue.edu, svb@cs.purdue.EDU (Stephan Bechtolsheim) writes:
> 
> While not necessarily excited about what I have to do (and
> that is to buy some 486/DOS/Windows machine) I would like
> to set up things in such a way that I can use the
>               Super VGA color monitor
> of my PC also as a
>               color monitor
> for my SPARC2 (unplugging and plugging in again some cables:
> that's fine).
> 
> How can I do that? Anyone with first hand experience?

A company called Vigra down in San Diego (619.483.1197) has an S-Bus card
called the VS-10 ($725) that can drive a SVGA monitor either at 800x600,
1024x768 or 1280x1024.  I use it on my IPX and it works fine.

---
	Dan


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson)
Subject: Will Sun SCSI-3 VME-SCSI board work in 670MP?
Organization: NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:52:03 GMT


Well, it looks like the Xylogics 472 tape controller won't work in the 670MP
without a lot of pain.  What about the Sun "si" VME-SCSI host adaptor?  It has
the Sun P/N 501-1217.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
Subject: Four disks on a Xylogics 451 controller
Organization: NobelTech AB
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:47:21 GMT


Hi.

I have a 3/280, with three disks on two Xylogics 451 controllers. Now I need to
connect more disks, and I was wonderring how. I have heard rumours about 
a driver for four disks per 451, has anybody seen it ? Or can I put another
451 controller in the 3/280 ?
(This is for our computer club, so buying disks/controllers is not an option.)
 
/Per
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From: melanie@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Melanie Humphrey)
Subject: mysterious type-5 keyboard patch
Reply-To: msh@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:46:30 GMT

i have a type-5 keyboard on a ss-ipx running 4.1.2. none of the 'extra'
keys (volume, mute, brightness, page up, page, down, delete, insert,
etc.) worked after i installed it. (this was after two keyboards
arrived in about 10 pieces each but that's another story).

the literature i got with the keyboard said to call sun support if my
eeprom level was at or below 2.4 so i called sun support (800-usa4sun)
and they said  they thought i needed 2.6 and sunos 4.1.2 and a patch
to work properly but they couldn't send it to me as it was not yet
shipping and to to call my sales rep to see if i could get the 'patch
cd'. my sales rep says he has no idea what sun support is talking
about. 

so, i have some of the keys working under openwindows due to forensic
use of xev and judicious application of xmodmap. however, some keys
don't have a symbol. it would be Really Nice if they worked without
my having to hack at things. and if they worked in console mode.

does anyone know anything about this patch? there's a cd listed in the
current sunexpress that is a patch for 4.1.1. does this work under
4.1.2?  why do they want me to pay to fix something that should work in
the first place? what about my sad little prom, stranded at rev level
2.3? will i ever be able to delete characters in console mode?

my mother, on the other hand, would tell me that i should be glad most
of the keys work...

thanks in advance for your help.
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