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From: jimh@pacdata.com (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Video electrical interface specs
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:18:16 GMT

One of my co-workers wants to know the electrical interface specs for a Sun
color monitor.  Can anyone help him out?  I think he means stuff like scan
rate, etc but being a software type I'm not sure.

My suspicion is he's either planning to connect a PC color monitor to a Sun
(not one of *my* Suns!), or he wants to plug a Sun color monitor into a PC.

Thanks.

jim

-- 
One of the great ironies of our time is that voters with brains are
greatly outnumbered by voters without brains, yet somehow the
intelligent fail to perceive that not everybody thinks the way they do,
thus they fail to argue persuasively for their points and then are
surprised when the majority makes dumb choices.

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Jim Harkins                         [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!jim
Pacific Data Products               jim@pacdata.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
From: brada@bardlover.Eng.Sun.COM (Brad Albom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Sparcstation Internal Disk List ?
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:18:25 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bardlover


Quick, probably simple question,

Does anyone have a list or information (apart from looking in format.dat)
on which 3rd party SCSI disks either will definitely work as internal
disks in a Sparcstation, or better yet, a list of those that definitely
won't work, even with an appropriate format.dat entry.
Are there any that won't work ?

TIA,
-brad albom
Software Engineering Solutions, Inc (Not related to Sun Micro)
Office: (415) 969-0141    - Probably get a secretary
FAX   : (415) 969-0177    - Probably get a high pitched tone
email : brada@eng.sun.com - Best Bet (In On Random Weekdays)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: beaudoin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Beaudoin)
Subject: Reading Mac formatted floppies from Sparc2 floppy drive?
Organization: Le laboratoire de robotique de l'Institut de recherche
	d'Hydro-Quebec
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:55:55 GMT

Is it possible to read Mac formatted floppies from Sparc2 3.5" floppy
drive? Since it is possible to do so with MSDOS formatted floppies, I
am hopping that the same functionnality is available for Mac floppies.

Any pointers?

Thank you!

--
Martin Beaudoin                         mbeaudoin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca
Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec    mbeaudoin@ireq-robot.uucp
Varennes, QC, Canada   J3X 1S1          +1 514 652-8136
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Re: ELC monitor screw up
Keywords: ELC
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:36:50 GMT

In article <6273@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> sm@g2.ph.man.ac.uk writes:
>In article nF@cs.dal.ca, matheson@open.dal.ca (Steven Matheson) writes:
>[description of ELC monitor faults deleted]

I missed the original problem, but if it was that the video sync went
south while the Sun itself still worked (i.e. rlogin and ftp worked) then
it's pretty easy to fix.  Take off the ELC cover, then remove enough
screws in the steel mesh so you can bend said mesh up and get at the
circuit boards.  As you face the monitor, on the left side is a small pot
about 4 inches down from the top.  Twist this pot until it syncs up
again.  If you turn the wrong pot then don't worry about it, just twist it
back to about where it was.  The first time I fixed this problem around 5
pots got adjusted before I found the right one.

Remember you've got 18 Kv somewhere in there, be careful.  Use a plastic
screwdriver, keep one hand behind your back, con a friend into doing it,
standard high voltage safety precautions.  If you've never been around
video circuitry then go to the library and read the safety section of a
couple TV repair manuals.  With that kind of voltage better to be safe than
sorry.

This works for monochrome ELC's, I've never been inside a color one.  As a
point of reference we've had 4 succumb to this problem within the last year,
out of a total of 12 ELCs.  This is not a good record, IMHO.  We've also
got 2 IPC's and a sparcstation 2, none of these has ever had a problem.

jim

-- 
One of the great ironies of our time is that voters with brains are
greatly outnumbered by voters without brains, yet somehow the
intelligent fail to perceive that not everybody thinks the way they do,
thus they fail to argue persuasively for their points and then are
surprised when the majority makes dumb choices.

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Jim Harkins                         [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!jim
Pacific Data Products               jim@pacdata.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Subject: Re: What current versions of SunOS can a SS10 run?
Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 01:56:25 GMT

In article <ANDERSON.92Oct15182311@zymurgy.bms.com> anderson@zymurgy.bms.com (Jay Anderson) says:
: Can a SS10 run 4.1.2? 4.1.3? Or does it need to run Solaris 2.0??

You need to be more specific.  There are 5 types of SS10...three single
processor configurations and two multiprocessor configurations.

The single processor systems can run SunOS 4.1.3.  The multiprocessor
systems will require SunOS 5.x (Solaris 2.x).
--
Frank Peters  -  UNIX Systems Programmer  -  Mississippi State University
Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu  -  Phone: (601)325-7030  -  FAX: (601)325-8921
From: mre1@itri.bton.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: VideoPix
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:10:26 GMT
Reply-To: mre1@itri.bton.ac.uk
Organization: ITRI, University of Brighton, UK


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 ?

Thank you,
Mark



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From: de@helios.ucsc.edu (De Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: SCANNERS/OCR for Sun Sparcstations
Summary: Looking for news/recommendations/warnings
Date: 10 Oct 92 01:44:11 GMT
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.ucsc.edu

My site is interested in scanning paper documents 
into machine-readable form, and we would like to know
what technology others have used.  We assume there are
two parts, the scanner to get a bitmap of the doc into
a file, then OCR software which analyzes the bitmap
and tries to recognize patterns as characters in a
learned or pre-loaded font.

We sometimes have to re-type huge tables of numbers.
Also, some of of folks historically have printed all
their email and filed it on paper, and those who
come after them would like to restore it to machine-
readable form.

You get the picture.  Any good thoughts?

If there's interest I will summarize and repost and
also make a summary available via anon ftp.

de


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
Subject: Re: Adding memory to a Sun 4/110
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:50:55 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.210232.2500@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> kenmac@cag.lcs.mit.edu writes:
>Howdy,
>  I'm having some trouble adding memory to a Sun 4/110. If you've done
>this before can you tell me if there's a simple answer?
>
>  We have a Sun 4/110 configured with 16MB of memory i.e., 16 of the
>32 slots contain 1MB SIMMs. We recently freed an extra 4 identical
>SIMMs as a consequence of upgrading another machine and I'd like to
>use these SIMMs as additional memory for the 4/110, if possible.
As far as I know, you need to add memory 16 modules at a time
(either 256K or 1MB SIMMS) in a 4/110.
Then you need to adjust the jumpers.
Then you need to reprogram EEPROM location 14.

Mark
-- 
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Internet:   markh@wimsey.bc.ca, mch@sq.com
UUCP: {van-bc,sq}!sqwest!mch Telephone: +1 604 585 8394  Fax: +1 604 585 1926
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: naughton@chinet.chi.il.us (Thomas Naughton)
Subject: Re: 2d Ethernet at Sun
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:41:43 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.175624.23484@elvis.sovusa.com> andr@elvis.sovusa.com writes:
>
>Hello.
>
>I sent it already but no answer :(. May be now I'll be more lucky?
>
>I need to setup the 2d Ethernet card to Sun 4/280 machine. I think I did all correct but
>it doesn't work.
>
>Configuration.
>Sun 4/280, SunOS 4.1.1, NIS running
>2d Ethernet card set at slot 5, address 0xe88000 vec 0x75
>
>Symptoms.
>
>During boot time system recognizes this adapter:
>
>Oct  3 17:42:46 elvis vmunix: ie1 at vme24d16 0xe88000 vec 0x75 
>
>but then ifconfig says:
>
>ie0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
>        inet 192.153.171.60 netmask ffffffe0 broadcast 192.153.171.32
>ie1: flags=40<RUNNING>
>lo0: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>
>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
>
>and netstat gives no statistics on ie1
>
>I've set all NIS maps (I think) but no luck.
>
   I just did this on a Sun 4/280 a couple of days ago so I'm fresh.  Make
sure that the 2nd ethernet card goes into slots 3, 4, or 5.  The card also
doesn't use the conrol bus so you have to change some jumpers on the 
backplane.  Take the front panel off and there should be a little panel
that comes off with three screws.  Remove this and you'll be able to get
to the backplane.  For each slot you should have 5 jumpers (4 horizontal
and 1 vertical).   I'll refer to 'em as jumpers 1-5 starting from the
top being jumper #1.  If the card doesn't use the control bus (like your
ethernet card) you should remove jumpers 4 & 5, and just have 1,2, and 3
shorted.
   The /etc/rc.local should ifconfig the second card if the file
/etc/hostname.ie1 exists.  For example, our hostname.ie0 has "tugboat" in
it and our hostname.ie1 has "tugboat-r" in it.  These are on two 
different networks so the subnet mask and the broadcast is set correctly.
Good luck.

-- 
Thomas M. Naughton	              "Love is chemistry, but sex is physics"
naughton@nauts.chi.il.us (prefered)   naughton@chinet.chi.il.us (alternate)
Nobody is responsible for anything I say or do but me.  Sometimes not even me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: dj@shiva.gsb.columbia.edu (Dev Joneja)
Subject: Single monitor on Sun and PC
Reply-To: dj@shiva.gsb.columbia.edu
Organization: Columbia Business School
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:16:37 GMT


I have a SUN IPC with a 16 inch color monitor. I would really like to have a IBM compatible
PC too, but have both use the same monitor (essentially trying to save on the cost of a monitor--
the SUN monitor being a nice large and expensive piece, and some desk space).

Has anyone done this? Can it be done at all? Any suggested graphics boards, vendors, switching
equipment, cables, etc. ?

Thanks very much. -Dev
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Dev Joneja    dj@shiva.gsb.columbia.edu
From: shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I use a Multi-Sync monitor on a Sun (1152x900)
Date: 11 Oct 92 15:41:45 GMT
Organization: University of North Florida, Jacksonville

In article <1992Oct10.214628.11184@Princeton.EDU> awolfe@moo.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Wolfe) writes:
>Consider the NEC 5FG - is has a good picture and a very wide scan range - or the Nanou T560 - an excellent Trinitron based unit with a good scan range.
>-- 

   The bad part about the NEC 5FG is that it's probably the smallest
screen diagonal of the 17" monitors (15.5").  Also, it's got a serious glare
problem. You'll have to pay an additional $120 to get something from NEC
that helps cut it down.  The 5FG does have the best scan ranges of
the 17" monitors.  

  The problem with the Nanao T560i is that it's price tag is very steep 
(~$1750).  However, IMHO, it's the best 17" monitor you can buy.  If 
you're not picky about having to have a Trinitron tube, then by all means 
get the Nanao F550i.  It's got a Mitsubishi tube (.28mm dot pitch) and 
practically the same electronics as the T560i.  I have an F550i that I got
from Hi-Tech USA in CA (they're in the Computer Shopper) for around $1050.
I hooked it up to a Sparc II clone from DTK that had a GX card and it looked
fine at 1152x900 (non-interlaced, 256 colors of course). 

  The F550i and T560i are both fully digital for all of their settings and
they allow you to adjust the blue and red color beams (sorta like NEC's 
color matching) to suit your taste.  It has pincushioning and barreling
controls and the others you'd expect.   My monitor did not need any 
barreling or pincushioning adjustments with the GX card.  You will not
find a better (specs and level of features) 17" monitor for under $1100
than the F550i.  Also, in case you're curious, the moire pattern with the
GX card was just about a full vertical so it blended well on the default
X stippled background. 

  Stay away from the IDEK 5317...it's a real loser.
 
Steve Hite
shite@sinkhole.unf.edu 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Serial ports and hardware flow control on SPARCstations
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:11:10 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <Bw06HF.I8t@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> cnwietho@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Carsten Wiethoff) writes:
>Isn't it DTR (Data terminal ready) that has to be dropped if the input buffer
>is full? 

No.  Insofar as there is any standard, it's to use RTS/CTS for handshaking.
Of course, lots of ignorant manufacturers in the micro market couldn't care
less about standards...
-- 
MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s.      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
              -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: increasing disk i/o
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:47:28 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: me myself and i

Has anybody got any info about add-ons such as "prestoserve" which give
increased disk I/O.

Followups to poster.

Tx. [will summarize]
-- 
Tim F O'Donoghue <tim@crash.canon.co.uk> <uunet!canon!tim>
From: lin@primus.llumc.edu (P. James Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: SBus/VME video board for SPARC info needed
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:18:44 GMT
Organization: LLUMC Radiation Research Lab


The board I'm looking for is a video board.  The
board shall digitize the analog signals received
from a video camera.  It does not have to be fancy.
Some build in functions for scaling, referencing,
histogramming and convolution would be ideal but
not absolutely necessary. It should be an SBus
board so it can be plugged into a SPARC workstation.
However I am also interested in learning any good
VME products.  It will be used for real time image
acquisition and displaying so it has to be fast.
The one we currently use can produce 30 frames
(512x512x8) per second.

Please E-mail to me. Thank you.

lin@proton.llumc.edu

P. James Lin                      INTERNET: lin@proton.llumc.edu
Radiation Research Laboratory     UUCP    : ..ucrmath!proton!lin 
Loma Linda University Medical Center, 11234 Anderson St., Loma Linda, CA 92354
Tel: (714)824-4066 FAX: (714)824-4067
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mikea@bnr.ca (Michael Altmann)
Subject: Info on I/O Devices for Sparc II
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:53:57 GMT

I am looking for information on trackballs, joysticks, or anything else that
could possibly be used in place of that rodent (mouse) that came with my
Sparc II.  Looking through "Sun World" didn't turn up anything.  I am looking
for DROP-IN substitutions, no extra hardware or software packages involved
(minor mods to files, or existing software are probably OK).

.../Mike (mikea@bnr.ca)
From: Beverly_I._Foster.DlosLV300@xerox.com
Subject: Scanners for Sun Workstations
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
X-NS-Transport-ID: 0000AA004DA84F312E7B
Reply-To: Beverly_I._Foster.DlosLV300@xerox.com
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:15:13 GMT

I am looking for information on desktop scanners for Sun Workstations that are
300 to 600 DPI and Novell and or XNS compatible.

Please send responses to BFOST.DLOSLV300XEROX.COMP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil)
Subject: Re: SPARC Clones anyone? Hyundai, Tatung? O
Reply-To: cecil@physics.unc.edu
Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:59:10 GMT

We're running a Sparc 2 clone board from Super Workstation
(800)-841-0036, for which we paid $1150 + SS1 board (what do they do
with them??).  Works fine w/ 2 gotchas: the original jumper cable between
CPU board and 3.5" floppy drive is ~2" too short as they have moved the
pinout, & we have had flow control problems running v32bis/42bis modems
at >9600 baud (worked fine w/ SS1 board.) So, I'll have to make a new
cable someday & work through the modem crap yet again (sigh).  SW ships
quickly, gives good academic discounts, but the technical support consists
of ``our boards are just like Sun's ...''

*** I don't work for them, but the price was right ***
---
Gerald Cecil cecil@wrath.physics.unc.edu  919-962-7169 
Physics & Astronomy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 USA

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mat@unh.edu (Mike Thomas)
Subject: Can an IBM PS2 keyboard be wired to work on a Sun 3??
Organization: /home/mat/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:49:04 GMT


Hi all!

  I would like to wire up an IBM PS2 keyboard to a Sun 3
system, has anyone attempted this or can anyone give me
electrical information for the Sun 3 keyboard??  I realize
I will have to accomodate for the mouse, I assume that
there is seperate pins passed thru the keyboard for the
mouse?!

Thanks, Mike
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From: dug@turing.ac.uk (& Scoular)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Can sparc 2 32Mb SBus memory be used in IPX ?
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:35:25 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The Turing Institute Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland

Hi Netters,
	We have a sparc 2 32Mb SBus card but no longer have a sparc 2.
	Can it be fitted to any other Sun model ?
--

	Doug Scoular		"The big print giveth and the 
	Senior Rock n Roller	 small print taketh away"

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.hardware:5016 comp.os.vxworks:926
From: hmp@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Henning Pangels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.os.vxworks
Subject: Looking for PROM burner recommendation
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:06:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: squash.HMP.92Oct16170635
Reply-To: hmp@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Henning Pangels)
Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU


I'm interested in a universal prom burner, ideally Sun-compatible,
supporting a wide variety of standard devices like (E)PROMs, PALs,
etc. If anyone out there is using such a beast, I would appreciate
hearing about your experience with it; even a short note with the
manufacturer's contact info would be appreciated.

Thanks,

-Henning Pangels
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Henning Pangels    |hmp@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu        |     Field Robotics Center
Research Programmer|(412) 268-7088                 |Carnegie-Mellon University
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: awolfe@moo.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Wolfe)
Subject: Re: Can I use a Multi-Sync monitor on a Sun (1152x900)
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 21:46:28 GMT

You simply need to be careful about the scan rates.

Mu IPC uses a 61.8 KHz horizontal scan and a 66Hz vertical.  Some 17" monitors cannot handle that.  Most of the 17" PC units that say they can handle up to 1280x1024 can go up to 64KHz - so they are OK.  Note that this is NOT good enough for a Mac at 1152x870 (75Hz) and I would guess is not good enough for the 
76Hz scan rate supported by most SUNs as an option.

The other difficulty is finding a cable and a switch.   Relax Technologies (a Mac supplier) carries a Sun (13W3 I think it's called) to CoAX connector that should fit most better monitors.

Consider the NEC 5FG - is has a good picture and a very wide scan range - or the Nanou T560 - an excellent Trinitron based unit with a good scan range.
-- 
--------------------------------------
Andrew Wolfe
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: mwette@csi.jpl.nasa.gov (Matt Wette)
Subject: scsi-2 drive on 3/60
Originator: mwette@mr-ed
Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:14:43 GMT


This may be a dumb question, but ...

  will a SCSI-II drive work on a Sun 3/60?

Matt
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware