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From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: IPX SIMMS
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:42:02 GMT
Organization: Polytechnic University, New York

In article <1992Aug27.051043.14437@adl.dms.CSIRO.AU> ianj@dmsadel.adl.dms.CSIRO.AU (Ian Jolly) writes:
>A couple of weeks ago a posting was made to this(?) newsgroup as to
>whether SUN was still shipping 16 Mb IPX's with 1 Mb SIMMS or whether
>they were now using 4 Mb SIMMS.  I don't recall seeing a reply.  I too

The IPX's (and the ELC's) only have 4 slots.  A 4MB or 16MB SIMM may
be installed in any available slot.  The memory used provides addressing
for a full 32 bit word on one SIMM, as opposed to 4 SIMMS.  This allows
memory to be added one unit at a time.

All of our IPX's came shipped with one 16MB SIMM.  This leaves three slots
open for a max. of 64MB. 

Also take note of the order in which Sun recommends filling in the slots
(1, 3, 2, 4).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mikep@cfsmo.honeywell.com (Mike Polo)
Subject: Re: Solaris off CD-ROM.
Reply-To: mikep@cfsmo.honeywell.com
Organization: Honeywell Commerical Flight Systems
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:57:24 GMT

I recently purchased a Sparcstation IPC, and I installed an aftermarket
Sony CD-ROM.  Sony *IS* shipping CD-ROM's with the correct SUN firmware
now, and I had no trouble booting!  (for the record, I bought it as an
internal drive for $490 from a local company here in Minneapolis called
Datalink, 612-944-3462, Joe Kaye - I'm not affiliated with them)

I believe I had to type:

> b sd(0,6,0)

to get it to boot on the IPC, but your clone may understand 'b cdrom'
directly.  The guy I bought the IPC from used to have a Toshiba SCSI
CD-rom drive on the system, and he could do everything but boot from
it.  I don't know if the system supported the Toshiba drive, or if he
had special drivers for it.

Hope this helps!
Mike


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Mike Polo
Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems

mikep@cfsmo.honeywell.com
From: mjacob@kpc.COM (Matt Jacob)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Loadable drivers
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:19:45 GMT
Reply-To: mjacob@kpc.COM (Matt Jacob)
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.

Sorry, a loadable SCSA device driver is not supported in 4.X.
Everything is loadable in 5.X.

I did a prototype version for 4.X that I posted to the net a while back
(oh, this would have to be at least a year or so ago- maybe even
two years now). It sorta did the trick, which had to be to make the
SCSA driver VD_TYPELESS since the autoloading code would not be doing
the correct thing for SCSA driver entry points.

-matt
From: adc@tardis.msu.edu (Alan D. Cabrera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Sun4/SPARC
Date: 23 Aug 92 17:16:09 GMT
Reply-To: adc@tardis.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University

In article 639@linus.mitre.org, pate@harbor.mitre.org (Laura Pate) writes:
> 
> Was there ever a difference between a Sun4 and a SPARC?
> I know today that these terms are used interchangeably,
> but I recall working with a Sun 4/110 and Sun4/280, both
> purchased in 1986, and I was sure they did not have a 
> SPARC chip. Am I crazy?
> 
> much thanks if you can clear this up...
> 
> Laura Pate

Application programs written and compiled on either architecture will
run on both.  But, there are significant differences in the chip
architectures such that they require different kernels.  Sun4 is sun4
and SPARC is sun4c.  You can't boot a sun4 architecture with a sun4c
kernel and visa versa.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: ianj@dmsadel.adl.dms.CSIRO.AU (Ian Jolly)
Subject: IPX SIMMS  
Organization: CSIRO Division of Water Resources, Adelaide
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 05:10:43 GMT

A couple of weeks ago a posting was made to this(?) newsgroup as to
whether SUN was still shipping 16 Mb IPX's with 1 Mb SIMMS or whether
they were now using 4 Mb SIMMS.  I don't recall seeing a reply.  I too
would like to purchase a 16 Mb IPX and then bump it up to 32 or 48 Mb
with 3rd party SIMMS.  Could someone please clarify the situation.
Thanks

Ian Jolly
From: thole@cs.rulimburg.nl (Johan Thole)
Subject: Info on audio device
Organization: University of Limburg
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 12:35:33 GMT

Hello,

We have a sparc2 with audio capabilities. One of our users wants to use
this sparc for a project in the area of speech processing. He wants to hook
up a tapedeck to the microphone-input of the sparc but is worried about
the differences in signal level and impedances. We don't have information
about the audio hardware of the sparc2 right here.

Does anyone know the specifications for the audio input of the sparc2? Does
anyone have experience using the audio input in combination with a CD-player
or tapedeck? For your information, the output of the tapedeck can drive a
headphone with an impedance within the range of 20 - 60 Ohm.

Any information would be very helpful. Thanks in advance,

Johan Thole.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: djones@lightning (David Jones)
Subject: Need recommendation on power conditioner for SUN Monitor
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 21:29:40 GMT


We have several Sun SPARC-2's with 19" Sony color monitors.
Their displays have the jitters.  It seems to be poor building power, because
placing the machines in different places on different power circuits
gives different behavior and other people switching things on or off on the
same circuit visibly changes the jitters on the screen.

Has anyone had similar problems?  How can you diagnose a bad building power
circuit?  We are considering getting "line conditioners", but are not sure
what is needed to fix the problem.  Any recommendations would be greatly
appreciated.

thanks in advance,
  djones@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jolly@bmw.ece.cmu.edu (John Lee)
Subject: tip, v.32/v.42bis modem
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:51:11 GMT

I am unable to use tip, with the above modem, on a Sparc ELC.  Some details
follow.  Any 'tips' appreciated!

setup:	sun os 4.1.2, sparc elc
	v.32/v.4 bis modem, through serial port 1
	communicating with /dev/cua1, per sun documentation

symptoms:	tip dials correctly
		as soon as tip connects to remote host, it hangs up, or
			cites 'unkown machine type' as an error.

note:		kermit works fine with the above set-up.

	
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From: chris@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: What HW works with Sun3? (I'm ignorant)
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:42:03 GMT
Organization: none

I'm planning on acquiring a Sun 3/80, sans kbd and mono monitor. First
off, which kbds will work with this? 3's? 4's? What's the difference?

Can I swap out the mono video board for color? which? What monitors
will work?

How can I add a tape drive? internal, or shoebox? Any problems?

Sorry for the stupid questions, but Suns are new to me. Is there any
compatibility/availability guide available?

Thanks. Email might be better, unless this level of ignorance is
common. :-)
From: cspidoug!cspidoug (Doug Johnson - CSPI Mission Viejo, CA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: 200 MFLOPS Vector Processor for Sun SPARCstations from CSPI
Keywords: Sun, Vector Processor, Radar, Sonar, Signal Processig, DSP
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 15:15:41 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: CSP,Inc - The Array Processors

 ** CSPI Announces the SuperCARD 3 VME, 200 MFLOPS Vector Processor **

     Billerica, Massachusetts -- CSPI announces the newest member of 
the popular SuperCARD vector processor family, the SuperCARD SC-3XL/VME,
a 6U VME64 board with 200 MFLOPS performance, up to 64 MBytes of memory,
and up to 200 MBytes per second I/O, using two Intel 50 MHz i860 XP Chips.
The SuperCARD SC-3XL/VME is the first VME board available that incorporates
Intel's newest i860 XP chips in a 50 MHz design: giving the SuperCARD
processor unprecedented performance, and making it CSPI's top-of-the-line
product, in the ever-growing SuperCARD family.

     The new SuperCARD processor is available with either one or 
two i860 XP chips; yielding a peak performance of 100 or 200 MFLOPS.
A Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) memory controller allows the 8, 16, 32 of 64
MBytes of DRAM memory to operate at 200 MBytes per second, and supports
cache coherency with bus snooping, and parity.  For I/O and control,
the board supports three independent I/O channels with DMA: a VME64
interface (72 MBytes/sec), a VSB interface (40 MBytes/sec), and the
CSPIO interface (200 MBytes/sec).

     As with prior SuperCARD models, the new SuperCARD 3 software
is compatible with existing models; making the transition from SC-1,
SC-2 an easy process.  Software support for platforms from Sun
Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and many others is available.

     Due to it's industry-leading combination of speed, memory, and
I/O bandwidth, the SC-3XL/VME model is particularly well suited to 
applications such as sonar, radar, simulation, image and seismic 
processing; markets where CSPI is know as a supplier of reliable, 
high performance equipment.  The SuperCARD-3 and SC-3XL/VME will
be available in the third quarter of 1992, with prices starting at
$ 12,000.

     CSPI was founded in 1968 with specific strengths in digital
signal processing and computer technology.  Today, CSPI is recognized
as a leading manufacturer of vector processors which enhance a computer's
ability to perform high-speed arithmetic.  Markets served include science
and engineering applications in signal processing, sonar and radar 
processing, image processing, seismic processing and well logging, medical
imaging (such at CT and MRI scanning, and others.  

     For more information on CSPI and it's products, please send mail
or call the contact below.

Doug Johnson
CSPI - The Array Processors
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From: ornstein@refuge.Colorado.EDU (Ornstein Jason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Sun Ram
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:27:13 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

I am looking for a complete list of the ram configureations that you
can put into sun machines (sun4's actually) and the part numbers of
the ram.

ie
ELC - 4 slots - filled in this order x,x,x,x
	uses 4 Meg Simms (part #)
	or  16 Meg Simms (part #)

	for a total of 16x4 = 64 megs of ram

Does anyone have a list like this?  If not, I will post a list once I
get all the replies.

thanks.

-jason


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Unixops/Distributed Computing          (303) 492-6096
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mfr@turing. (Michael Froehlich)
Subject: Time for rumors: new SPARC low-end
Reply-To: mfr@turing.
Organization: University of Bremen, Germany
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 08:28:08 GMT

Hi!

Let's start a new lap of our popular game "Hey, I have VEEEEEERRYYY
secret informations" (missing those nice "SPARCstation 3" discussions :-). 

Did anybody heard rumors about the new low-end SPARCstation, except 
of the facts, that it is a 2 Chip computer with the features of
an IPX (+ more 'vapor' and new 16 bit sound capabilities) for the price 
of an IPC. Is the equation 'SS10 - MP - x SBus slots = low-end' correct? 
SUPERSPARC or not SUPERSPARC? Announcement in September/October 92, 
FCS in Q1/93?

Michael
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From: acorston@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Adrian Corston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: SPARCstation ELC monitor woes
Date: 27 Aug 92 00:42:29 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

jpl@icf.hrb.com (Joseph P. Laskowski) writes:
>We have about 12 SPARCstation ELC's and have had various monitor problems on 
>about half of our ELC's. Has anyone else had any problems with the ELC's or
>are we just in the unfortunate category ? Some of the problems we've had are
>random vertical/horizontal lines on screen at power up and then after warming
>up the monitor either dies or gets a 2" vertical bar down the center of the
>screen.

I've watched our two ELC's have this sort of problem fixed on two occasions,
so I'll describe it to you. However, I'm not a technician, and I expect
you'd want to be fairly careful if you choose to do this yourself. Standard
disclaimers apply...

0. Read these instructions several times before doing anything.
1. Turn ELC off.
2. Remove all the screws you can see.
3. Remove plastic panel covering most of the ELC.
4. Remove screws holding down the metal mesh on top.
5. Note how it's inserted around the bronze bit near the top, then remove
   the metal mesh.
6. Turn ELC on.
7. On (or near, I forget) the CRT there's a pot. You need to adjust this
   _with the ELC turned on_ while looking at the screen. Exactly how you
   need to adjust it I dunno :-)
8. Turn ELC off.
9. Put it back together. Expect to have trouble getting the plastic case
   back on, and jiggle it a bit.
A. Send me the standard sun technician's fee ;-)


Your milage may vary, etc, etc.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: carltonj@ee.ubc.ca (carlton joseph)
Subject: Sun 4 Frame Pointer Question ???
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:23:01 GMT

Hello Everyone,

 When you look at the Sun Programmers Language Guide in the Sun-4
 assembly language reference manual they talk about a frame pointer.

 What is the function of the frame pointer?

 Any answers received would be greatly apriciated.

Thanks,
Carlton Joseph
email: carltonj@ee.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: grant@bluemoon.rn.com (Grant DeLorean)
Subject: Re: Multiple serial port SBUS boards
Organization: Blue Moon
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 22:30:35 GMT

dclunie@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (David Clunie) writes:


>Does anyone have any recommendations for a SBUS board to drive multiple
>serial lines ? I am considering Sun's Serial/Parallel board but I am
>sure there must be others. It would be nice to run faster than 38.4 K
>too push the Worldblazer TurboPEP with compression to its limit but
>I guess that is asking a lot of a sparcstation :). My application is
>a dial-in modem pool.

 I am using a CoALM board (similar to Sun's ALM-2 but nicer). I am
very happy with the product so far (driving 5 HS modems at 38400).

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From: tcb@wombat.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ted Beatie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: *WANTED* QIC-60 Tape Drive for one evening *BRIBE* Food (Boston)
Date: 4 Sep 92 03:06:20 GMT
Organization: Fandom House


 
I need to borrow a Sun 2 compatible QIC-60 Tape Drive for an evening.
I will bribe with Pizza, Chinese, Indian, or whatever is the
preference of the generous soul (or even an account on our Network,
once we get it running...)
 
Please leave mail to tcb@gnu.ai.mit.edu, or call me at 617/776-6486
Leave a message if I'm not home!  Thanks!
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From: glenns@nmsstage.pad.otc.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq professional Services)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Sun4/SPARC
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:28:30 GMT
Reply-To: glenns@nmsstage.pad.otc.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq professional Services)

In article <1992Aug24.022017.2015@ultra.com>, shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr}) writes:
|> In <BtGrCw.LEJ@acsu.buffalo.edu> pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) writes:
|> 
|> >too bad any SPARC binary won't run on any sun4 system.  it would sure make
|> >my life easier.
|> 
|> If you have a binary from any Sun Sparc system (Sun 4/xxx, SSx, IPx, etc.),
|> that won't run on all other Sun Sparc systems, you have a bug which
|> should be reported ASAP to Sun.  I am not aware of any applications which
|> run on one model Sun Sparc system, and not on all the others.
|> 

Ha! You must have known that some smart !@#$ would immediately flood 
you with responses :-)

What you say is generally true, providing that the application does not depend
on anything in the kernel. Typically this means that it is not linked with the
library libkvm.

Now for an example, how about "top", and standard sunos utilities like ps,
crash, eeprom, pstat, etc...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: marbun@envmsa.eas.asu.edu (Marbun,Leo P)
Subject: Subscribing comp.sys.sun.hardware
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:46:00 GMT

Hi,

A friend of mine works as a dealer for Suns workstations. I think this group
may help him in providing more information to his customers. He has Internet
access, but I don't know if his host provides newserver. I wonder if he could
receive Emails for the news instead of loging on to a newserver. If that's
possible, please let me know.

Thanks.

Leo.  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: len@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (leonard.g.carr)
Subject: SyQuest 44 on a SPARCstation IPC?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:59:23 GMT
Keywords: SyQuest SPARC IPC SunOS


Does anybody know how to get a SyQuest 44Mb. SCSI removable disk drive to
work on a SPARC IPC running SunOS 4.1.2?  I mad the physical connection
and get an error message while booting that there was some sort of problem
while closing the drive (or something like that).  I'm sure that somebody
either has got the drive working or has been convinced that it will never
work.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: curt@mischief.ecn.purdue.edu (Curt Freeland)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: WANTED: SIMM extraction tool
Keywords: n
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:32:18 GMT

arnold@synopsys.com (Arnold de Leon) writes:

>There a different Sun SIMM extraction tool.  It looks like it's
>made of cast aluminum.  It also appears to work well (I haven't
>used it personally) but I've seen it in action.  I don't know 
>if it's generally available.

>We are a Sun PEP customer.  This means that we have someone
>on staff who is Sun certified technician.  So we may have
>obtained it that way.

>I don't have the part number handy (I'm at home right).  If there
>is interest I can check on that part number.

>	arnold

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The one in my desk drawer is a 345-1184-02.  It is a cast aluminum "T" shaped
tool that works very well.  It is very similar to a plastic one that AMP sells.

--curt

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From: adrianc@sunfen.uk.sun.com (Adrian Cockcroft - Sun UK - Cambridge SE - SPARC Specialist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Thermal output of 690MP
Date: 27 Aug 1992 18:12:09 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: adrianc@sunfen.uk.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.156.129.1

The 690 cabinet can consume power via the cardcage PSU (one or two KW max) and
via the disk trays and maybe a 1/2" tape drive. The max config could well
consume over 3KW but a typical config is around 1KW.

Given the exact config - specified as per a Sun quote with product codes
ideally - there is a Sun internal tool that can give a steady state wattage.

This tool (Sales Product Order Checker - SPOC) feeds off the quote database
so cannot be used away from Sun's internal network. You could ask a Sun sales
or SE person to run your config through SPOC. SPOC is localised to each
geography so I can only check UK configs (i.e. 240V). Some Sun offices may
not have access to SPOC.

SPOC checks that configs are "correct" and buried at the end of its output
it includes the Watts and BTU for the config.

Regards Adrian

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