Thanx again for the responses. A number of you asked for a summary which is enclosed, and I've tried to include pertinent responses below. My apologiesif I left someone out.In summary, lots of people are using Wren VII's without any difficulty, andit turns out that I'm below the "2^21 ...

For the first time in living memory, Sun-Managers has failed! I'mgoing into mourning immediately after the summary is finished. :-)Seriously, everybody had exactly the same suggestion: get a slow-blowfuse. Great idea, but which one? Nobody knew the actual fuse type tobe put in. They also ...

My original problem was:> > I am trying to upgrade a SS1+ to SUNOS 4.1.1. When I boot using> > b sd(,6,2) -sw> or > boot sd(,6,2) -sw> > I get the following message > > assertion failed: pmg !=NULL, file .. http://sun4/vm_hat.c line: 2316> panic:assertion ...

Sorry about the delay in sending a summary. I received so many repliesand I had to make sure that my summary works (at least in my case...with a postscript laser writer 1).As luck would have it, the problem did not re-occur until recentlyhence the delay. By the way, many sun managers got it ...

>>>>> On Tue, 11 Jun 91 13:15:09 EDT, I said:> We've just been given the go-ahead to add a 1.2 GB SCSI disk> <Micropolis 1598-15 cyl 1692 alt 2 hd 15 sec 80> onto our 4/490.>> We'd like to enable sync scsi on this disk, but the SunOS 4.1.1> manuals don't ...

Thanks to all those that responded to my plea for help yesterday!It turns out that all we had to do was switch the ID PROMs, andeverything started working fine. Thanks ...

Several people suggested using the probe-scsi command on SPARCstations with the Open-Boot-Prom code to get this info. That will sometimes give you at least the vendor and disk type, total number of 512 byte blocks on disk, *and* occasionally the version number.This works for most Sun-supported ...

        I guess the answer is " BUYER BEWARE". It seems that the simmsmust be real 80 ns SIMMS. It is best to get the assurance from yoursupplier that the simm WILL WORK IN THE SS2.I am going with Clearpoint 4MB simms ($345) with the contract ...

Wow! I posted a request Saturday PM, and by Sunday AM I had receivedanswers-eat your heart out Sun...The Problem:        By mistake, one of us did an "rm -r" while in /usr/lib/         (We were trying to ...

Most people responded with the solution for booting off ofany disk but few provided the answer for *rooting* off ofan alternate disk. The answers are:For ...

The following are the responses I received to my query about sitesusing yp passwd files larger than 10000 entries. The response fromStergios at Stanford matches our experiences.We are currently testing an 18000 entry yp passwd file. The resultsseem to suggest that ypxfrs are an incredibly ...

Sun-managers,Here's the summary of the automatic dump techniques that I've received.Sorry about the delay. System administration never gets easier, just moreextensive. More users, more machines, more software, more networks, and moremail. I'm sure glad there are 36 hours in a day, ...

We finally had a recurrence of the screen "hanging" after exiting openwin. In the previous summary I conjectured from the responses that we were experiencing "whiteout", a case where the colormap was changed to be white on white and thus invisible, but never got to confirm ...

On Jun 25, 10:05am, I wrote:} We have a Sun 3/280S, running SunOS 4.1 which has been crashing 2-3 times a} day for about the last week. Here's the autoconfig output when vmunix boots:}} SunOS Release 4.1 (PHYSUN) #1: Tue Nov 6 14:01:30 EST 1990} Copyright (c) 1983-1990, Sun Microsystems, ...

My original question:> I had a machine on the network which had its partitions mounted by other> hosts using NFS. This machine was shutdown and removed, but the other> hosts still had its partitions NFS mounted. Now, commands like df, mount,> umount and login all hang for a long ...

This subject was originally "Re: CFV: comp.sys.sun reorganization"scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:>One tremendously useful thing would be to gateway all sun-managers>summary postings (not the whole mailing list) into that group. (This>assumes Phil agrees). At ...

Although nobody seems to have asked lately, I recently managed to get aSun 4 style keyboard connected to my sun 3 to replace the ghastly oldSun 3 keyboard and lo-res mouse I used to suffer with. It's not quitethe same as my SLC at work, but it's certainly an improvement.Anyhow, you need to ...

enclosed is the list of bug fixes and patches rolledinto 4.1.2.hope you find your favorites.--hal Bugs Fixed in SunOS 4.1.2Over 200 bugs have been fixed for SunOS 4.1.2. This chapter liststhe more significant fixes, including CTE patches included in SunOS4.1.2 (see Section 6.13). The bugs are ...

Great, thanks to everyone who responded (or even mentally sympathized).The problem was that I extended a thinnet segment and added a new system at the end. I then could not communicate with systems beyond a repeater at the far endof the segment. In retrospect the explanation is obvious, though ...

Thanks to the efforts of one of our readers at Boston University,sun-managers now has a list of Frequent Asked Questions (FAQ). And,yes, the answers are included as well!To keep the maintenance of this list centralized, there is a newaddress at our site specifically for the FAQ maintainer. ...

Here is a summary of answers to my question regarding hardware differencesbetween SPARCserver2's and SPARCstation2's.The unanimous consensus was -A sparcserver 2 is a sparcstation-2 without a monitor, frame buffer card,keyboard and mouse. Same CPU, same box.The sparcstation-2 has more hw ...

Marcel,<p><em>>SLC - 4/16MB 33/36 bits - 80 Nsec<br></em><p>Are you sure that SLCs can take 16MB SIMMS? The Sun person I spoke to was<p>certain that they could but after some thought he said that the sockets were<p>different... Did anyone report success?<p>Andrew<p>

Thanks to everyone who informed me that X11R5 contains support for theGX accelerator in the form of a binary (.o) file. Several peopleclaim that the X11R5 GX support actually results in performancesuperior to OW2.0 and OW3.0.------------------------------------------------------Morry ...

This posting sure succeeded in generating alot of interest as well as responces.Unfortunately, I am trying to generate this summary quick before I leave for thSun Users Conference so I will provide at this time the quick list of softwareavailable to do these things without providing the pros ...

Well the answer seems to be (nearly) unanimous. Although largecomputational loads should not impact on the routing performance ofour gateway machine, having to forward all those packets willdefinitely impact our computational performance. Since the Sparc-1seems plenty fast enough to forward ...

My original posting:>I have a Sun 4/470 that needs around 8 serial ports for modems (uucp>and dial in/out). The Sun ALM-1 is kind of old and crufty, though I>could get one pretty cheap. I'm worried about hanging 8 19k modems>on it. The ALM-2 has only 4 modem-control ports and ...

Thanks to the people who replied. All pointed out that this information is in the Hardware Installation Manual. I had thought so,but couldn't find (still can't find) a copy. Anyway, here is the answer if you need it, and can't find your HIM also.Pin 1 VIDEO+Pin 2 ------Pin 3 HSYNCPin 4 ...

I posted recently about a SPARCStation2 that had just returned fromEurope and exhibited some bizzare behavior at boot time.Several people commented that the boot and/or ID rom/prom was scrogged by X-rays. One person also commented to not believe the memory tests, butI'm confident that's not a ...

Sun Managers,You might recall I posted some time ago about a problem with some Sun-3's crashing with a "panic: bus error" message. The problem appeared when some students started running a Finite Element Analysis application.I received a bunch of replies mostly telling me to either ...

sun-managers is to be commended again for quick response.There were sevral good suggestions. The one I chose, which worksgreat, was offered first by Bryan, bigmac@erg.sri.com. He said:yes, follow the above + line with:+:*:::::/usr/local/etc/nologin.lockout(The nologin.lockout is a shell of ...

In article <9111271953.AA06423@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca> rwolf@dretor.dciem.DND.CA writes:>This is a summary for a format.dat entry for a CDC 9720-1230 connected to>a Xylogics controller. The responses I got contained so much worthwhile>information I decided to create a summary. I ...

My thanks to Aydin Edguer who told me within an hour of my asking,that the correct Systech is Systech Corporation in San Diego, at+1 619 453 8970. I called them and they say they don't own thedriver either. Now I think that Sun may have had a consultant doit. Who knows.Anyway, the MTI ...

Okay - thank you - you can stop now - half-a-dozen replies in ten minutesis fine (our link to the US *is* fast today).Thanks to all (so far) for pointing me to the -dryrun and -v options of ccto figure out what it was doing.The answer is, of course, to give "-e start" to ld. Funny, ...

My original request:>A while ago I applied patch 100260-01 to our 4/490 running 4.1.1.>This patch replaced the file /sys/sun4/OBJ/if_ie.o.>We have been having problems with large processes hanging, and Sun>recommended that we install "The Jumbo Patch", version 2, which ...

(I don't know if my question ever made it to the sun-manager's mailing list,but here's a summary anyway)Some time ago, I asked:>Is it possible to use /dev/ttya as console on a Sparcstation 1 (4.1.1) without>making the framebuffer, keyboard and mouse unusable?>We changed ...

Thanx SunMGR's foor all info about memory SIMM's in Sun Sparcs.It seemed that Sun is changing from standard 9Bits to 33/36 bit Simm'sSeveral warned me about IPX and SS2 tight memory timing specs:These timing tolerances are:         1) CAS precharge ...

I would like to thank the following people for replying:brent@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu kensmith@cs.Buffalo.EDUrosa@huggins.ssctr.bcm.tmc.eduhall@bond.crim.caamick@erim.orgphil@dgbt.doc.ca ...

THANKS to all who replied! The keyboard as of this writing isworking; we flushed it with clean tap water.Summary: When liquids spill into a keyboard.1) There's a good chance the keyboard can be returned to normal(nothing to lose by trying).2) Do the following immediately!3) Unplug it from ...

The common wisdom to solve this problem, is to apply patches 100075-06and 100257-02 . Someone suggested that they were mentioned in the installation guide. They are really mentioned in the Release Notes,Lotus V. 1.1, page 2. My apologies for not having kept my eyes moreopen.I found the patches ...

Some time ago, I asked:>Is it possible to use /dev/ttya as console on a Sparcstation 1 (4.1.1) without>making the framebuffer, keyboard and mouse unusable?>We changed "input-device" and "output-device" to "ttya" in the PROM monitor>but after reboot, ...

Last week, I asked what the collision number produced by, e. g.,"netstat -I le0 5" means. The respondents agreed that it counts"the number of collisions that occurred when the interface tried totransmit a packet", and that the collisions are just the collisionsfor that ...

sorry about the late summary, i've moved...my original query:> i'm trying to hook a cg3/cg4 framebuffer output to some sort of video> projector/large screen monitor. has anyone done this before? also,> what are the horizontal scan frequencies of the cg3/cg4 outputs?the responses ...

This looks like a good list to keep/pass around for those format.dat FAQ's.I think the vlaues for the Fujitsu M2266SA should be changed though.Now The technical handbook (FS810125-01...B) lists        Number of cylinders 1658 + 1 + ...

Subject: SUMMARY: st jumbo patch reintroduces old problemSun Managers,In article <9111210120.AA01722@kate.as.utexas.edu> I wrote:> Sun Managers,> > I just installed Sun patch # 100280-02, scsi-tape jumbo patch for 4.1.1> on our 4/490. This was to correct a `psig action' ...

Yesterday I posted:> I'm trying to set up xdm to run the OpenWindows xnews server on our Sun consoles> and Open Look Window Manager (olwm) and OpenWindows X clients on X terminals> (PCs running X). I've almost got everything working as I'd like, except for> shelltool. If I ...

Anyone else disturbed that some of those sun-patch/ anon-ftpdirectories were publicly writeable?! Talk about opportunities formischief...        -Barry SheinSoftware Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | uunet!world!bzsPurveyors to the Trade | ...

Original question:>One of my users (my boss) wants to run DOS applications (MS Windows 3.0, TimeLine, CorelDraw,Supercalc etc.) on a SUN (we're using SLCs, ELCs and SS2s).I've heard about DOS Windows, SoftPC and XDOS.I need fax numbers of the suppliers for SoftPC, XDOS and anything else ...

My original posting asked:> From: todd@flex.Eng.McMaster.CA (Todd Pfaff)> Subject: X terminals> To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu> > Please relate to me your experiences with X terminals in a Sun workstation environment.> > Any horror stories?> > How about colour X ...

My original query:> I recently had to repair a bad block on a disk. Unfortunately,> I now have a file with a block of zeros embedded somewhere in it.> I know the block number, I need to find which file is using that block.> I asked sun, they said that there's no command that gives ...

        My problem was:----- Begin Included Message -----        We have been using a small subnetwork with three SS1+(Sun 4/65) running SUNOS 4.1 that used to work fine. All of themwere running ...