Got loads of responses to this one. Seems that the 'industry' isn't fullyup to steam yet. The majority of the responses mentioned three things tocheck for:1) ensure twisted pair is true twisted pair that has the correct polarity,   number of twists per foot, and is truely ...

I should have remembered: there are a few 4.0.3 utilities thatdidn't get replaced by their 4.0.3c versions at upgrade time,including fdformat (and rshd and bar and who knows what else).(As I recall, Sun said 4.0.3c required a full install on ourserver, so we punted, missing a few items in ...

Sun Managers,        Thanks for all your help. The question was> I have a new 8mm Exabyte tape drive. I get the message> tape may be wearing out.... I called Sun and they said it was> a now bug. The mailed me a bug fix; however, the README ...

My query was:>Does anyone know of low cost or free Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)>software that runs on Sun workstations? I have a couple of bridges that I'd>like to monitor, and be able to summarize error statistics, and packets>transmitted.Yes, there are several SNMP ...

Thanks to the people who replied to my query. The problem *seems* to have gone away now, but I have kept the replies in case it recurs. (I dont knowwhat the problem was - maybe it just needed a break!).Time to lurch onto the next crisis...Here is a summary of the useful replies, for those of ...

 I've received a couple of additional answers to my recent question aboutsetting up mailing on a Sun Sparc. Thanks again to all who responded. Ewald JENISCH NIC-Handle: EJ51University Computer Center; University of Vienna, AustriaE-Mail: z00ejr01@awiuni11.bitnet or ...

In my original note, I said:>I have 4 SLC's which need to separate from the rest of the network.. They>currently are being served by a 3 series server.... Essentially we are now>CPU bound by the Server... and traffic is unbearable... My question is:>Is it possible to make one of ...

In order to put the Fujitsu M2263E onto an MD21 ESDI disk controller,you must have ROM rev A98E or higher. Contact Emulex, they have anROM upgrade program. You should also closely inspect your board revand have Sun upgrade it to the latest if your 3/160 is really old.I have not verified that ...

Sun Managers:  Thanks to all who replied with many wonderful suggestions.I also received enough "me too, what gives" messages to justifya general summary posting. My original message:> After upgrading to SunOS 4.1.1, every attempt to perform>an interactive restore, ...

>My 3/60 panics (bus error reg 80 invalid), intermittently (but high >probability - eg. 90% of the time), when I try to access the tape >drive (eg. to backup sd2 onto tape)...Apparently, the 3/60 vs. tape drive vs. 4.1.1 problem was "solved" bysun-managers in early April and ...

Folks:Many thanks for all the help. All but one respondent suggested that I get the Disk Controller card replaced. As long as we'reat it, we'll try to get it brought up to themost recent hardware revision level too!A few folks offered the technical insight that the ...

My query was:>Does anyone know of low cost or free Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)>software that runs on Sun workstations? I have a couple of bridges that I'd>like to monitor, and be able to summarize error statistics, and packets>transmitted.Yes, there are several SNMP ...

     From: palmer@gateway.mitre.org     Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 10:53:54 -0400     Subject: Re: SUMMARY - SNMP software wanted           Are you sure about this price? My ...

Talk about fast... I haven't even received my original posting yet.Thanks to Ric Anderson (ric@cs.arizona.edu) and Mike Jipping(jipping@frodo.cs.hope.edu) for responding so quickly.For those who also missed the answer the first around:Question:>> We have some 1MB SIMMs which we want to ...

> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 10:53:54 -0400> From: palmer@gateway.mitre.org> Sender: Sun-Nets-request@umiacs.UMD.EDU>>>> >4) Sun Microsystems has a package:> >>"Depending on how you buy Sun stuff (e.g. university contract, GSA,> >>end-user) ...

The original question was this:>Our ypservs (both the master and the slaves) keep dying. We are running>4.1.1 (sun4's) and have uncommented the "-b" flag in /var/yp/Makefile.>This worked well in 4.0.3 but the problems seem to have started after the>upgrade. dbx says:[ dbx ...

        My original query concerned the possible use of rdist as an upgradetool. I received over twenty responses. Thanks to all of those who replied.        Various individuals suggested using dump/restore rather ...

        My original query concerned drive configuration information for theMaxtor LXT-340SY 3.5" 340MB drive.        Thanks to:        Kerien Fitzpatrick ...

        In under one day I have a working solution! It's getting so that Idon't even think about calling the Sun AnswerLine anymore...        My original query concerned appropriate DIP switch settings ...

A week ago I asked for help with NeWSprint and a new SPARCprinterinstalled on a SPARCstation 2 running 4.1.1:   When I run a PostScript file though lpr, I would get anywhere from   0 to 6-7 pages printed and then it will stop. When I run ps on   the ...

My original question:I'm running traffic(1C) and the Dst histogram is showing a largeamount of traffic from an unknown host/device. Normally, trafficdisplays hostnames (if known) or hex IP addressess (if not known).However, in this case, neither is shown.My network is a mixed TCP/IP, XNS, and ...

I appreciate the quick responses to my question about the Sony CDU-6111-01 CD-ROM drive under SunOS_4.1.1.I've also talked with the vendor (Young Minds) who sold us the Sony 6111 drive and the driver, and the word is that the SunOS-4.0.3 version of their driver will not work under SunOS-4.1.1 ...

 I asked:> My question is, how much is a system degraded by having its root &> swap on an external SCSI device rather than the internal SCSI? Is> the increase in speed (~16ms) in the 207Mb a decent trade for the> speed gained by having the Quantum internal? The ...

I was asking for inexpensive color postscript solutions, and here is a summaryof the information sent to me.First, let me quote from an informative message about color printertechnology, from apunix!phb@UCSD.EDU (Peter H. Berens).------------------------For color printers, there are a few ...

        Sorry for the delay...        The problem ( which I knew about but failed to mention in my request )        is that localhost is not entered into the tables on the ...

A while back I posted the following question:>I'm posting this for a friend who doesn't have access to this list right now.>He just bought a Fujitsu M2263SA (6? Mb) drive to add to a 327 Mb drive>on on of his Sun 3/60's. When he tries to format it, format won't even>recognize ...

| Yes, Sun grounded pin 26| on their 3/50's and 3/60's but only on early revisions of the motherboard.WARNING: the Sun 4/110 has the same problem.If you have a Sun hardware contract, they will fix this for you,but I don't since I bought the machine second-hand. Does anyoneknow if it's OK ...

My original question was :        "........can somebody point out to me a simple elegant and reasonably safe method for automatically doing such things as installingpatches and other simple tasks which involve mindless ...

The problem is solved. Here is the original question:==============================================================================This afternoon, a strange thing happened in my 3/50. While I was doingnormal work on the 3/50, the system suddenly died. After I tried toreboot the machine, it ...

Hi, i'm back,my original question was:>>I have to export (rw) filesystems to machines (Sparcs, SunOS 4.1.1, NIS),>>that may have root passwords flying around the house.>>Does anyone have an idea to stop someone from>>root# su user (no password ...

Hi everyone,        I am sorry to not summarize earilier, partly because of too busy,and partly because I want to wait and make sure that my solution works.I have received quite a number of replies from sun-managers, thanksto all who had replied, I hope ...

I asked whether or not there were any known problems using a 4/60 or4/65 GX board and monitor on a 4/75. I received several responses,all of which stated that they've done it or are currently doing it,and that it works just fine. Nobody responded saying it wouldn't work.Tim Chan ...

thanx to the following people for their help:        sbradley@iWarp.intel.com frankk@cwi.nl stern@East.Sun.COM        fitz@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu edy_J_Lemke@Princeton.EDU ...

I asked what dump parameters to use with 5GB EXB-8500's.From: dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick)    double the tape lengthFrom: csmoko@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Chuck Smoko - E41)I have been using out 2.3G Exabytes as an infinite byte storage devicebecause we don't have ...

 As promised, the summary. Unfortunately no answers only morequestions. First to refresh your memory, the original message(spelling errors included :) :   Dear Netlanders,     The problem:     Just installed NewsPrint 1.0 ...

Hello!About one week ago I wrote:>We are in progress of upgrading some of our 3/60's. Some of them have>Adaptec (ACB4000) SCSI-controllers, and some of them have Emulex>(MD21) controllers.>The question is: Which (if any) of them is better - which machines>should we keep. I have ...

I asked what one should do about SCSI pin 26, since Sun ties it low andthe disk drive wants to put 5 volts on it...I had 9 responses within a day (well done!), all of whome suggestedleaving pin 26 undconnected, and most of them saying that they had donethis, either on the 4/110 (which I have) ...

On the 15th, to make a decision between SCSI, IPI, and RAID disksubsystems, I asked the questions>Has anyone had experience with RAID disk arrays? How about software>striping, does it put too much of a burden on the CPU? Any>experiences good or bad would be appreciated.Since then I ...

[We are trying this again, last time I got a "rice.edu not found for mailerddn" error -Brad]Folks,    After a number reciving a number of requests to post furtherinformation on ``sticktion'' and Seagate/Imprimis/Control Data Corporation(CDC) drives, I have ...

Many thanks to all those who responded (you know who you are!) - theresponse to this list is nothing short of phenomenal. Here is theentry that we finally used:disk_type = "Fujitsu-M2382k DECADE" \        : ctlr = XY450 : fmt_time = 4 ...

        From my original post :Daniel Edward Lovinger <dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:> We are experiencing a very strange problem on a set of> Sparcstation IPCs we acquired about three weeks ago.> > Configuration> ...

Thanks to everyone who responded !The pinout for the combination A/B serial ports on the 4/20 are:        ========================================================I received the following from my Sun Tech Rep after much ado... Thiswas faxed to me ...

Hi everyone,         Yesterday, I've sent out a request ....> I have a strange problem on some of my SS1+ when I am trying to > boot them as client via ethernet.> When I do :> b le()> > It'll say :> > Got error packet: ...

My original message:> The SPARCprinters take different toner and drum cartridges from> the printers we already have (Apple LaserWriters, DP LZR-1200, > and HP LaserJets). Unfortunately, the only vendor labels we've > found on these items are Sun's, so we can't tell who makes ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Sun's traffic(1M) showing meunknown traffic on my net. Many of you responded with the suggestionthat I use etherfind(8) to dig into this further. I then postedsamples of etherfind's output, showing the unknown packets.Dave Williams ...

        I posted a request a couple of weeks ago about a fairly heavily-        loaded Sun-4/280 running SunOS 4.1 that would "hang" on average        about once a ...

Thanks for all the responses to my question on how to get Sun 8mm tape drives to read Delta Micro 8mm ...

In a recent message, Steve Jay (shj@ultra.com) wrote:>Yesterday, I sent a message about getting patches from Sun via a Sun>run bulletin board:>>> Call 1-800-477-4768, 2400 baud, even parity. (I've had to send a break>> after it answers to get a login prompt.) Login as ...

Original message:> Can anyone offer a reason why we might be getting the following errors?> > from /var/log/syslog:> > Apr 24 17:01:02 unisql sendmail[17622]: AA17622: SYSERR: net hang reading from lamborghini: Connection timed out during collect with lamborghini> Apr 24 ...

Seems I must have just missed a discussion this very same subject not all thatlong ago. For the records, an excerpt of my original post was:> Ok, I'm baffled. Anybody out there come across this problem?>> Today (5/1), at approximately 8:35am (EDT), every Sun box on our local ...