THE PROBLEM        In my original posting, I inquired about reading data from audio        CD's using Sun's CD-ROM player. Basically, I was able to read the        table of ...

Apparently, this question was asked and summarized to sun-managers recentlyso I'm sorry for rehashing it. Here's a short summary; if anybody needsmore information I have it, thanks to many replies.Basically, the drive isn't "supported" by the Sun driver in SunOS 4.1.1, butit is ...

A while ago I asked for info on touchscreens for Suns (Sparcs).Several people asked that I summarize the responses:A couple of people pointed me towards a VAR called Trident whichintegrates third-party touchscreens into workstations and X terminals.I've contacted them and gotten info from ...

martin@alba.udac.uu.se (Martin Wendel) writes:>I had serious problems today with one of the discs connected to>esp1 (second SCSI interface) on one of my SS2's. The disc is a:><FUJITSU-2266SA cyl 1648 alt 2 hd 15 sec 85> (1.2GB). We have about>ten of them on various SUN's and ...

My original query- can you use a CD-ROM drive other thana Sony for Suns...Specifically a Toshiba 3301B from aNeXT... generated several replies, from YES to NO-WAY...The answer is YES for data, probably yes for audio.For other drives than Toshiba? Lets hear your resultswhen you try it!!begin ...

rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:>Can you install the recently available 16-MB SIMMs in the slots>currently occupied by the 4-MB SIMMs? Is there some sort of>limit on how much memory the MMU can handle?So far, the answer is NO, you can't put 16-MB SIMMs in the ...

martin@alba.udac.uu.se (Martin Wendel) writes:>The SUN provided instructions for remaking the shared libc library>in SUNOS-4.1.2 is faulty. In fact, without adding or removing any>object modules, just using libc_pic.a results in a libc.so that's>unusable and yes, I followed SUN's ...

martin@alba.udac.uu.se (Martin Wendel) writes:>The SUN provided instructions for remaking the shared libc library>in SUNOS-4.1.2 is faulty. In fact, without adding or removing any>object modules, just using libc_pic.a results in a libc.so that's>unusable and yes, I followed SUN's ...

martin@alba.udac.uu.se (Martin Wendel) writes:>I had serious problems today with one of the discs connected to>esp1 (second SCSI interface) on one of my SS2's. The disc is a:><FUJITSU-2266SA cyl 1648 alt 2 hd 15 sec 85> (1.2GB). We have about>ten of them on various SUN's and ...

Sorry for the daley, most people would have forgottoen the originalquestion I suspect. 1) I am having problems with transcript printing small copies of the printjob in the corner of a piece of paper2) how good is NEwsPrint ? I have sun3/sun4 network moving to Sparcsand need to consider ...

Many thanks to those who responded!ORIGINAL POSTING:>Sometimes a process attached to a serial port will die unexpectedly>but remain in the 'exiting' status while waiting for a child which is >already dead or 'defunct'. This happens on both 386i and IPC machines>and does not ...

martin@alba.udac.uu.se (Martin Wendel) writes:>I had serious problems today with one of the discs connected to>esp1 (second SCSI interface) on one of my SS2's. The disc is a:><FUJITSU-2266SA cyl 1648 alt 2 hd 15 sec 85> (1.2GB). We have about>ten of them on various SUN's and ...

My original message and the correct answer:From: beard@maths.adelaide.edu.au> Our sparcprinter has been hanging often in the middle of print jobs.>> When I run /home/flare/SPARCprinter/diag/ptst it returns the following>> flare:diag# ptst> 01/30/92 15:44:04 lpvi0 lpvitest ...

Original problem:We want to daisy chain 2 NIS maps in the direct map:        automount /- auto.direct                #auto.direct (an NIS ...

My query was regarding the error message:...host name configuration error...when trying to send mail from machines using SunOS 4.1.1.Some prompt and very useful replies from:        Neil W Rickert ...

Managers,Here is my belated summary on backupsMy original post was as follows:> We are in the process of evaluating third party backup products for our sun network, and have identified the following:>> Budtool by Delta Systems> Backup.unet by System Center> Networker by ...

I have received many printcap entries for this plotter, the one that seems to work best ...

About a week ago I posted asking if anyoneknew what the MIPS ratings on a Sun 3/160 is.Well I got several responses from people quotingactual Sun literature figures. The consesus is that this machine is about 3 mips. (68020 CPU@16.67 MHz). Also the addition of an FPA boardwill not change this ...

Thanks to all who responded to my request for opinions on Polarisas a vendor of hardware maintenance. Following are responses thatI received.==========Polaris has been our service company for a little over a year. Theyhave consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty (and ...

In comp.sys.sun.hardware I wrote:>Say, all this discussion of the SPARCprinter reminds me of a continuing>problem with the things -- as far as I know, the only place to buy>toner cartridges for them is Sun itself (at about twice market for other>similar toner cartridges). Does ...

Thanks to those who responded to my original posting about T1/T3interfaces for the ...

A week ago I asked:> I've been asked to see what WYSIWYG document preparation systems> are available (and, even more importantly, which ones people> recommend) for a network of Sparcs and Sun 3 workstations. Our> company needs some system that will allow us to generate the ...

Thanks to those that responded to my question about speechsynthesizers for Sun workstations. The only speech synthesizersoftware that people mentioned is the "speak" system. Most of thissoftware is in the public domain, but parts are copyrighted by BrownUniversity. The quality of ...

There exist no programs like Filemaker for SPARC, although thereclearly are a marked for such a product.Filemaker is a very simply card oriented database, with the emphasison presentation and user interaction, rather than on efficient datastorage and query facilities.We will make our own (for ...

I got the following errors on a 490 with 2x1 Gb 3Mb/sec IPI disks, 64 Mbram with SunOS 4.1.1. Both id000b and id001b are swap partitions. The machine at the time was being beaten to death by a Maple user - making heavy use of the swap space. The errors did not happen again so hopefully weare ...

I would like to thank everyone who ansewered my request:>We would like to stop finger requests from outside of our domain.>How can this be done?>>CTRIBBET@IndyVax.Iupui.EduMost of the ansewers involved:Commenting out the "/usr/etc/in.fingerd" in /etc/inetd.conf.This ...

Earlier I wrote:>Sys: Sparc1>OS 4.1.1>Prob:> After it is all setup and I try to print, the lpc stat for the printer>says: sparc: ready and printing. Unfortunately, it never does.. after >sparc:> queuing enabled> printing is enabled> 2 entries in spool area> unable ...

Last week I wrote:----- Begin Included Message -----        I am running OW 3.0. In a shelltool, the shift-3 key produces        the usual pound sign that looks like a tic-tac-toe board. ...

> > Hello everyone,> > We are looking at purchasing a 24bit colour board for an Opus SS2 clone> and would like to know what is around, recommendations, sources etc.> > Many thanks,> > Chris> > Well,This seems to be it:--------------------VITec RasterFLEX(TM) ...

Thank you I have got many responses to my question. And here is the results:Here is my original question:> > Does anyone know why I could not do just a simple command like:> >rcp host:/tmp/file .> It prints out the error as follow:> "stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported ...

Two weeks ago, I asked :>> Does anybody know how to tell sendmail to use the DNS features ?I got many, many replies, all of them saying : >> Install /usr/lib/sendmail.mx as sendmail binary and restart the running daemon.Well, it's in fact this easy (at least for a 3/110 running ...

peter@Civil.Concordia.CA (Peter Kaldis) writes:> About a week ago I posted asking if anyone> knew what the MIPS ratings on a Sun 3/160 is.> > Well I got several responses from people quoting actual Sun literature figures. The consesus is > that this machine is about 3 mips. ...

Folks,Thanks go out to everybody who replied... :)The answer was to install the small_openwin subset with Newsprint, and letNewsprint use it instead of OPENWIN 3.0...Thanks once again..- Niranjan-- perera@athena.cs.uga.edu | Computer Science Department, University of Georgia. "yer ...

        In article <05.02.92.140430.195@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu>, I requestedinformation about installing a Quantum ProDrive 105 (SUN104) SCSI disk drivein a SparcStation 2 which already had a SUN207 drive installed. I receivedvery helpful information ...

In article <rhoward.697401122@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:<rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:<<>Can you install the recently available 16-MB SIMMs in the slots<>currently occupied by the 4-MB SIMMs? Is there some sort ...

ejb@ERA.COM (Jay Berkenbilt) writes:>Thanks to those who responded to my original posting about T1/T3>interfaces for the Sun:> bob@MorningStar.Com> sung@concert.net> jamey@MorningStar.Com> wbe@BBN.COM> decanio@shadow.eng.pyramid.com>A summary of responses follows. I ...

 Thanks everyone who sent me different suggesion on myTCP UDP results.I was trying different posibility but there were fewreasons for my anomalous throughput and :   1. for TCP I changed my send and receive buffer size        using ...

My original query was on how to clean DAT tape heads.The general consensus seemed to be1) DONT use audio DAT cleaning tapes, use one specifically   designed for digital DATs, eg Sony DG5CL cleaning cassette.2) If you're using the right tapes, then the drive ...

This list is great !Last week, I asked the following question :How is it possible to use a Sun as intelligent mail router, i.e. how can a Sun use bothNIS and DNS to resolve mail adresses. The answer is (mainly from to Dan Kegel (dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov) and works at least on a 3/110 with 4.1.1 ...

First of all, thanks for all the responses. I guess I didn't end up describing the problem very well. Some people gotconfused with my description, so I'll describe it again, then give the answer.I have a 5GB 8MM Exabyte on host a and a 2.3GB Exabyte on host b.My intention is to use the ...

Sorry this took so long to summarize.To summarize the question:> > Looking for comments about Ethernet bridges, especially from Network> Application Technologies (NAT). Also looking for specific information> about the legend/myth of Sun Ethernet hardware violating ...

From: beig@FRULM63.BITNETIt seems that vhangup(2) is effectively broken.So you have to modify the idle.users program:using ioctl(2) and killpg(2) instead of vhangup(2).Here are the differences between the two programs:****************** 203,208 ****--- 206,212 ...

Thank you all for the answers. My original post:============Hi everyone, Please Help, we have been getting readnews for a few months now and wecontinually get the following each time news is downloaded to us:    relaynews <`bad/695502670.Z' failed, status 16 (see ...

 I started getting the error  ld.so map heap error (9) for /dev/ zero after installing openwins version 3 on a sun running 4.1.1Eckhard R"uggeberg eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de provided the answer. on the cdrom in directory /cdrom/OpenWindows/sun4/lib/OSpatches are updates ...

First of all, thanks to all who replied! The responses came from:John Hasley<hasley@andy.bgsu.edu>Claus Assmann <ca@idefix.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de>Brent Alan Wiese <brent@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu>Michael Assels <mjassels@concour.cs.concordia.ca>James J Dempsey ...

Thanks everyone who sent me different suggesion on myTCP UDP results.I was trying different posibility but there were fewreasons for my anomalous throughput and :   1. for TCP I changed my send and receive buffer size        using SO_SNDBUF ...

In a previous mail, I've asked Sun Managers how to reconnect anopened but removed file :One of my users has removed an important file. By chance, this filewas opened by a running program and then the file was notREALLY removed : The blocks containing data and the inode werestill allocated. The ...

Sorry this took so long...Anyway, I received several responses related to my message regarding having a lossof services at boot time via NIS. The most promising of which seems to bethat having any blank lines in the services map will cause some services to notbe visible (apparently only) ...

I would like to thank everyone for thier response to my info request:CTRIBBET@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU writes:-> -> We would like to stop finger requests from outside of our domain.----------------The most common response was:Comment off the line for finger in /etc/inetd.conf and ...

My original message:> > > Hi everyone,> > For the past couple of months I've noticed that the output of the "w"> command will become garbled:> > {sonny.proteon.com:56} w> 11:04am up 1 day, 2:48, 13 users, load average: 0.21, 0.14, 0.35> User tty ...