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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: SUN Mono screen dimming
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 23:41:58 GMT

ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu (William S. Ang) writes:

>I have couple of 3 year old 19" Monochrome Monitors that have become dim even
>though the brightness (at the back of the Monitor) has been turned to Max.
>Is there some knobs inside that I could twist to make them brighter?

>Just wondering, is this a degrading performance of the
>elctronics/power supply inside  after 3 years of non-stop 24 hour usage?

We had a TV tech look over some of our tubes which had a similar
condition.  He managed to improve them to a degree, but said they were
simply nearing the end of their functional lifetimes.  The adjustments
he made did make them a bit brighter, but at a cost of driving the
electronics harder and presumably reducing the remaining life.

Any good TV tech should be able to work on those monitors, and the
savings on shipping cost alone vs sending them out is tremendous.
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From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Sony CDU-8012 can boot on Sun-2, right? OK, where to buy?
Date: 28 Aug 92 10:24:55 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

I'm told that a Sony CDU-8012 can boot a Sparc2. Can anyone else confirm this?
(Or is that simply Sony's model number for the mechanism that they sell to
Sun?)

If that is correct... can anyone tell me where I might be able to buy such a
unit? Internal or external drive are both OK. Wholesale or retail is fine.

Oh yes... how much do these cost?

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: lfk@eastman1.mit.edu (Lee F. Kolakowski)
Subject: CD-ROMs for use on both SparcStation and Mac
Organization: Mass. Inst. of Tech., Dept. of Chemistry
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:14:26 GMT



Is there a problem with using one CD-ROM player
with a SUN one day and a Mac the next. Are they
identical pieces of hardware?

We have 25 macs and are about to order 2 CD-ROMs for them,
and we are about to place an order for a spacrstation. We
wuold like to be able to use them interchangeably on the two
types of systems.

Thanks in Advance for INfo.

C
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson)
Subject: Sun 424Mb disk doesnt spin up until boot time
Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 06:13:08 GMT

I have an external Sun-supplied Seagate 424Mb SCSI disk (one of the lunchbox
variety - Desktop Storage Pack, something like that).
This is connected to a SPARCstation 1 which has an internal Quantum 105Mb
SCSI drive.

The external disk does not spin up when the system is powered on.  It
doesn't matter in which order I power on the devices.  "probe-scsi"
can see both disks, but for the external disk it doesn't show the
serial number (another sign of not having spun up).

The only way I've found to make it spin up is to boot off the internal
disk (or some other device such as a tape).  When the kernel probes
for devices, the external disk spins up.

This is a nuisance because I want to boot off the external disk.
So I have to first boot from the internal disk, then interrupt it
once the external disk has spun up, then boot the external disk.
Not very automated.

It does it whatever SPARCstation I connect it to.

I have had other Sun disks (including an internal one) sometimes not
spin up until the kernel probe, but the behaviour has not been
consistent except on this one disk.

Has anyone else seen this?  Does anyone have any idea what's causing it?

Janet Jackson
<janet@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Systems Administrator
Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Australia
From: hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM (Hans Hrasna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Archive Viper support for 250 MB tape
Date: 4 Sep 1992 20:22:23 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: castlerock.east.sun.com

In article laf6d1INN4vh@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM, lou@flipper.Corp.Sun.COM ("Luis R. Ordorica") writes:
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone tell me if the Archive Viper mechanism used in the desktop
>storage pack can support tape lengths of 250 MB?
>
	Yup, DC6250's work fine in the Viper, I have been using them for about 
	a month now...


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From: xcea@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Chad Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Exabyte Problems with 690
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:57:08 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network

>I'm not sure if sync SCSI is the problem, at least we don't get any of
>those silly "Blah blah target now synchronous at 3.72 M bit" messages.

Patch 100484-01 will disable the display of the messages.
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From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: SS10/41's still vapor?
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:04:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute

dug@athena.cs.uga.edu (Douglas Brown) writes:

>In article <16298@pitt.UUCP> jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes:
>>The SS10/30's are supposedly out and about, at least in
>>micro-quantities.  SS10/41's are supposed to be out "third quarter,"
>>but are they really?

>Well,

>  We have 10 SS10/41's on order and have had them on order since their
>  general announcement.  We've been told to look for them about late
>  November or early December.

My sales-type said they are hoping to start shipping "in October"
and how long after that until you get one depends on the food
chain.

Robert
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From: seamans@nlm.nih.gov (James R. Seamans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Memory Supplier
Keywords: Sparc 10, memory
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:59:29 GMT
Reply-To: seamans@nlm.nih.gov
Organization: National Library of Medicine

We are dealing with a memory manufacturer who is approved by 
Sun Microsystems and certified with Apple and Intel.  

If you are looking for memory or the latest and greatest,
ie, Sparc 10 or 16 meg RDI modules.  

Try: Marco International  ask for Kees Lawrence at 1-800-621-4668

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Pick any disclaimer and insert here....


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: gorton@s35.prime.com (Scott Gorton)
Subject: ** Sun model # help?
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:47:44 GMT

I am contemplating purchasing a SUN for home use.  Unfortunately, I'm quite the "Neanderthal" when it comes to SUN naming conventions.  I'm primarily intersted in a smallish workstation, around the size of a 3/50, 3/60, 3/260, 4/110...etc.  Could some kind soul either post, (repost) or EMAIL me a list of Sun Workstation models with some spec info?

Example  (the following type of list would be GREATLY helpful)

Model	CPU	MIPS	MaxMemory	Bus	#Slots in Backplane
-----	---	----	---------	----	-------------------
3/50	MC68000	1? 	8		none	0
3/60    MC68020	2?	24		none	0
3/260	MC68020	4	64		VME	12
 
  :
 etc
  :

The above numbers are guesses based off of previous posts.  As you can see, I need help!  

Thanks in advance!

  Scott <Gorton@s35.prime.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: gea@IASTATE.EDU (George E. Applequist)
Subject: Wanted: Sparc ttya/ttyb pinouts
Reply-To: gea@IASTATE.EDU (George E. Applequist)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:55:58 GMT


Could someone who has a Sparcstation I or IPX hardware manual please send
me the pinouts for the ttya and ttyb serial ports?  

Thanks very much.

   ___    ____             George Einar Applequist  (gea@iastate.edu)
  /   \  /       /\        Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
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From: John_A_Pham@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Sbus doc?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 21:30:55 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Where can I find the spec to Sun Sbus?  I want to wire wrap a A/D
board for the old Sun 3/260.
 
Thanks,
John
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From: swiet@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: tip - xmodem query
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:45:37 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD

In article <kebIsTq00iQXQTAFgo@andrew.cmu.edu> ap10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anand Patwardhan) writes:
>
>Hi all
>
>We are using xmodem (started from within tip, with ~C) to send a file.
>This is on a sun4. The problem is that for some reason, the nl character
>(hex 0a) does not get passed, whenever it appears in the file. Yes, we
>are using binary mode for xmodem, and tip is being operated in
>non-beautify and rawftp modes. 
>Any ideas why this might be happening? 

	I use tip and zmodem with my NeXT.  The way it works for me is having
a ~/.tiprc file with the line SHELL=/bin/sh, and using the ~$ tip escape, with
sz -1 or rz -1 (sz/rz -1b for binary).  Hope this helps...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: IPC SIMMs in SLC?
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:06:30 GMT

awolfe@moo.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Wolfe) writes:

>IPC SIMMS will not even physically fit into an SLC.  ELC SIMMS will work.

4M ELC SIMMs will work, 16M ones will not.

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From: pwo@ztivax.UUCP (Peter W Osel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Q: How to connect which 550 MByte QIC to a Sun with SunOS 4.1.x?
Keywords: QIC
Date: 26 Aug 92 11:19:16 GMT
Organization: Siemens A.G of Munich, Germany


I would like to connect a 550 MByte QIC to a Sun running SunOS 4.1.x.
Which models can be used (if any).  Do you need special software drivers
or kernel modifications?  Any hint welcome.

Please email, I'll summarize.

	--pwo
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.folklore.computers
From: Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom)
Subject: Re: SPARC->MAC SCSI Drive connection
Organization: Communicator Nexus AB
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:17:34 GMT

In article <m!bn3l=.sspatter@netcom.com> sspatter@netcom.com (Samuel Scott Patterson) writes:

   Hi all.

	Can someone give me a clue?
   I have a SuperMac 330M HD with the 50-pin Centronics connector and I am
   trying to hook it up to my Sun SPARC.  Anyways,l I built a cable for it
   that doesn't seem to work.  (The SPARC uses the 3-row of pins style of
   50-pin connector)  At any rate, I wired the cable 1-1 IE, Pin 1 to Pin 1,
   Pin-2 to Pin-2, etc, you get the idea..  Through all 50 pins...  Now,
   I looked at the pin-outs for the Mac connector and the pin-outs for the
   SPARC connector and they seem to be one in the same.  The Sparc Pin-1
   does the exact same function as the MAC Pin-1.  So what gives?  When I
   hook the drive up to my SPARC and turn on the system, the SPARC boots up
   and then sits there for an infinite amount of time, doing nothing.
   The last message it displays from my Prom setup is b st(0,0,0)vmunix.
   Then it just sits there.  I was told that the MAC drive is self-
   terminating so I shouldn't really need the terminator on it..  Yes, I
   have tried it both with and without the terminator and it gets the 
   same results.  So what is the problem?  Any thoughts, hints, ideas, etc?
   Thanks in advance.

I don't think you should look to closely on the pin numbering of the
two types of connectors. I just checked the pin numbering of the 50
pin D-sub (3 rows) used in some suns and they are definitely not the
same as the Micro Ribbon connector used in macs. The easiest way to
connect the two is to use 50 wire flat cable and crimp style
connectors. Orient the connectors so that pin 1 of both connectors are
the same and you will get the rest of pins correct.

Thomas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Simms for Sparcs
From: etsiao@zeus.calpoly.edu (Eddie C. Tsiao)
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 22:05:37 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo


Someone must have asked this in the past but I need to know exactly what
type of simms the various Sun Sparcstations use.  I am mainly interested in
information about IPC, SS1, IPX, and SS2 (which is just about the whole
sparc line).  Also, if anyone has any good third party vendors they would
recommend.  Please feel free to refer me to any manuals or documentation.
Thanks in advance.

			- E.T.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: lfk@eastman1.mit.edu (Lee F. Kolakowski)
Subject: Used or New
Organization: Mass. Inst. of Tech., Dept. of Chemistry
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:19:34 GMT


I am intereseted in buying a new or used sparcstation for
our lab.

I am interested in pricing and models which might be available.

Please notiy me my e-mail of either the phone #s or the details from
either Sun or used Sun dealers.

Thanks

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From: lou@flipper.Corp.Sun.COM ("Luis R. Ordorica")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Archive Viper support for 250 MB tape
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:15:13 GMT
Reply-To: lou@flipper.Corp.Sun.COM ("Luis R. Ordorica")
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: flipper.corp.sun.com

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if the Archive Viper mechanism used in the desktop
storage pack can support tape lengths of 250 MB?

I would love to get more backup capacity out of the drive than the 
standard 150 MB DC6150 tape size.

Thanks!

Lou
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From: john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: SparcPrinter/Newsprint crashing system
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:24:28 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astro, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

I am running a Sparc 2 with NewsPrint (version 2 I believe) and a SparcPrinter.
With increasing frequency, my system is dying when I print.  The most common
error message is a BAD TRAP, followed by a system panic.  Less common is
PANIC:  TEXT FAULT.   From what I am tell from the net, this is an extremely
common problem, but one for which I have yet to hear a solution.  I would
much appreciate any information people have about this.  Is it a hardware
problem, a software problem, or what?  I am running Sun OS 4.1.1, would it
help to upgrade to 4.1.2 ?  I am losing my system about 80% of the time I
try to print now, so I am getting desperate.  Help!

John
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: Multiple serial port SBUS boards
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 11:50:58 GMT

In article <8362@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> 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.

try asking your sun salesbeing for the 'third party sbus developers
list' -- it has a whole section on serial i/o cards.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: nieh@surya.cadence.com (Ko-Haw Nieh)
Subject: can 4Mb SIMM for IPX be used on IPC ?
Reply-To: nieh@cadence.com (Ko-Haw Nieh)
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, San Jose CA.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 03:49:49 GMT


We have couple spared 4Mb SIMM for SUN/IPX, can it be used on SUN/IPC ?

Thanks,
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Tele: 408-944-6821  E-mail: nieh@cadence.com



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From: ap10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anand Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: tip - xmodem query
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:50:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.kebIsTq00iQXQTAFgo
Organization: Doctoral student, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Hi all

We are using xmodem (started from within tip, with ~C) to send a file.
This is on a sun4. The problem is that for some reason, the nl character
(hex 0a) does not get passed, whenever it appears in the file. Yes, we
are using binary mode for xmodem, and tip is being operated in
non-beautify and rawftp modes. 
Any ideas why this might be happening? 

Thanks much.

Regards

Anand
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From: philb@soda.berkeley.edu (Philip Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Formatting probs: unsupported controllers?
Date: 3 Sep 1992 01:42:40 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
Keywords: Quantum, Fujitsu


I have two drives I'm having problems formatting. the smaller one is a
Quantum 40S. I thought that one would be no problem, since I have a 105
working nicely. but no luck. Gives me an error, upon partitioning, or
something. does a low-level format aparently, and then error`s out on
block 3 (0 relative), "vendor-specific error: illegal command" , or
variations on a theme.

ALSO.. there's this Fujitsu THING, M2246E, with an "ASDI" SCSI bridgecard
on it. This one I KNOW it is possible to use, cause I was using it. then
it developed some bad sectors, so I tried to reformat it. It gave the
same error as the Quantum! errored out.
Now this Fujitsu is really wierd, cause I called Fujitsu, got them to fax
me the complete specs on it, bytes per track, jumper settings, the whole
shebang. I've got it set for hard sectoring, 35 sectors per track, and it
does the low-level format thing, and then bombs out on relative block 0.

Unfortunately, I can't get a hold of the guy who formated it originally.
(but it was labeled as a TOSHIBA!)

Can anyone even explain what's happening, let alone a solution?
(incidentally, my system is a 4/110. I tried formatting it on someone
else's 3/50, but that didn't work either. same error)

Philip
From: berman@nlm.nih.gov (Lew Berman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: postscript printer h/w speedup?
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:29:01 GMT
Reply-To: berman@nlm.nih.gov
Organization: National Library of Medicine

Does anyone know about hardware (or software) to spped up printing
on my sun sparc postscript printer?  It is extremely slow when
I give it psotscript jobs.  What products are available?  How much?

Please e-mail me directly if possible.

Thanks,

Lew Berman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: norm@bnr.ca (Norm MacNeil)
Subject: Re: automounter vs auto.master
Originator: norm@bcrks122
Reply-To: norm@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:13:57 GMT


In article <1811ojINNe3c@cs.utexas.edu>, fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes:
> How does one get the automounter to notice that you have changed
> auto.master?
> 
> As best I can tell, you have to actually kill and restart the
> automounter (yuck).  Is this really true?  If so, it orphans any
> existing auto-mounted file systems, so they are not unmounted until
> the next reboot.  So you may as well reboot the machine anyway.
> Please tell me it ain't so.

I believe sending a SIGHUP signal (kill -SIGHUP <pid>) will cause it to re-read the
/etc/mtab file; however, I don't think this is exactly what you had in mind.  I
don't seem to recall any other way other than shutting down the automounter and
restarting it.

  Norm.

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