~1 week ago, I asked the for reccomendations on what (*slip*,*ppp*)to use to connect two SPARCs via V.32. I got several responses from the net and several from actual live conversations :-). The score was5:1 ppp:slip, with the ppp people ...
I got a mail from ric@cs.arizona.edu who states:>We have 4 of the Fuji 2266-SA 1.2GB drives connected to a Sparc-2.>They work great. With the new microcode we got from our supplier>(a bug fix from Fujitsu) we can now use the read-ahead cache on>the drives without logging tons of ...
Since I may be long until having successfully installed PPP,I'll say just this:It seems there's one implementation of PPP with the appropriatemodifications each time. Sorry for having asked about it, butdoing copy-paste by modifying include files, I've inserted bymistake a semicolon, which ...
Hello,first of all, my apologize to not post this summary before.Here is my original question : Could someone please tell me the reasons for these messages : Sep 19 21:10:18 vialactea vmunix: mbuf map ...
This one isn't quite so late. :)Original question (paraphrasing/summarizing): Is 8mm less reliable because of its higher data density? Or does it make up for that by using a more robust error ...
This is *real* late. Sorry.Original question (paraphrasing/summarizing): The 'tunefs' command has an option "optimize", but the man page for 'tunefs' doesn't even mention this option. ...
Hi;I'm sorry to have delayed so long in sending this summary out. I wasintending to do it at the start of this week, but things have been hectic.My query was about a SparcStation 2 which appears to be normal, but wouldcrash when booted. All the prom tests would work, and the boot file ...
My initial query was the following:> I would like to buy a Sun 424MB internal drive for an IPC. I would> then put the IPC's 207MB drive in a vacant bay of an SS2. Do you think> this can be done? Does it require special brackets or cables? Will> the IPC overheat? Has anybody ...
>Does anyone know of a "traffic"-like utility that will work under>X11R4? Any replies greatly appreciated. Please email me directly.Special thanks to John Pochmara (pochmara@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu).The answer seems to be a utility called xtr. It is availablefrom comp.sources.unix. ...
Original problem was Sun-3/75 had begun rebooting intermittently.Two people suggested that the power supply in the 3/75 was known tocause this. Peter Smith also said he had purchased a rebuilt powersupply from APEX (Redmond, WA) that solved the problem.I'm going to give APEX a call.Thanks ...
HI,I wanted to get other sources of 1/2" SCSI tape drives for Suncomputers. I got many responses, unanimously saying that the HP-88780Bwas what I was looking for (and it is that same unit that Sun sellsunder its own brand). Thanks to all who responded:todd@petadmin.wustl.edu (M. Todd ...
The original question was where the sd1 and sd3 boot messages come from and are for on a VME bus machine.Well, the explanation is in the sd(4) man page.kevins@Aus.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child}) said : What the kernel notices on the SCSI bus bus is entirely a ...
The original question was where the sd1 and sd3 boot messages come from and are for on a VME bus machine.Well, the explanation is in the sd(4) man page.kevins@Aus.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child}) said : What the kernel notices on the SCSI bus bus is entirely a ...
The original question was how to declare a n-th swap partition in the /etc/fstab, choosing between the various possibilities inthe manuals.The generally agreed opinion was that they are all equivalent, becausethe differing 2nd and 4th field seem to be ignored anyways, as long asthe 3rd field is ...
The original question was whether there exists a PD tool which shows the current allocation of phys.memory and swap space for kernel, cache and processes.gerry@jtsv16.jts.com (G. Roderick Singleton) suggests sps, which resides onseveral anonymous ftp servers.kevins@Aus.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan) ...
This is an RTFM question, of course one shouldn't try such things when one istiring and worse yet one shouldn't submit questions to sun-managers inthe same state. Immediately after sending the message and shutting downmy Mac, I was rinsing the diapers before going to bed and realized ...
Hi Folks,First of all, thanks to everyone who helped.Summary of the problem:When wanting to switch between the different printig modes via software,you have to do hardware handshaking. Neither the SUN manuals nor the HPmanual (yeah, you guessed *that* :-) gave any useful hints. Our normal ...
>I have had bought for my system a Hitachi DK516C-16, a 1.33Gbyte (formatted)>drive. We've had a number of problems with the drive, most of which have>been resolved by replacing the SCSI terminator, putting in the patch>for big disks, ....>>Here is the remaining problem. ...
My orignal questions was: >> >> Does anyone know if the expansion of environment variables works >> with automount. No matter what I try, I can not get automount to >> expand environment variables. Whether I pass them in on the command >> line with the -D ...
Folks,As promised, the summary of the responses I got regarding setting thePROM to boot from SCSI device 2. The easiest method was using theeeprom command: # eeprom boot-device=disk2Thanks to all who responded (I even learned why the PROM was ...
Thanks for the help - it turns out what the disks are trying to tellme is "you can't get there from here". Neither appears to support theCOPY command (sigh) so I guess I find another way.Thanks to the ...
Thanks for the fast responses! A couple of people thought this wasinappropriate for sun-managers (they suggested sun-spots instead). Sorryif I offended anyone, but I thought that the people who read this listwould be more likely to have actually done a memory upgrade themselves.What I wanted ...
I asked about default routes installed by rc.local disppearing on me,and I got lots of useful responses. The core of my query:> While conducting some tests in preparation for splitting up a large> subnet, I've found default routes that were installed on boot by> rc.local disappearing ...
Sun-Managers,My origianl question:>> One of my users wanted to set the error bell off in vi, but the>> set noerrorbells option did not turn off the bell. >> >> The machine is a Sparcstation 1 running SunOS 4.1.1 Rev B. Is there>> any way to turn the bell ...
Oh boy....The tape drive we were playing with is of an older design (I guess), thereis a separate emuluex board and a tape controller board. BOTH of themneed a power plug!!!We were so used to "modern" scsi devices that we simply plugged in the powerplug for the emulex board and ...
Thank you to each of you who responded to my appeal for help. I discoveredthe solution to my problem by chance on my own.To repeat my stated problem...> The problem in a nutshell is that IPI drive id000 does not appear to the> operating system to be partitioned the way format(8) shows it ...
I asked:> > I have couple of two-year old 19" monocrhome monitor that are showing> sign of old age. The brightness of the screen goes slightly dimmer> and brighter every so often. Is this a know problem? Anything I can> twist/fix myself?Most of the replies said they have ...
Thanks for the input!from:white@uvm-gen.UVM.EDU ---------------------------------------------------------------------------There is an NIU.SYS which has to be loaded in config.sys and a number ofother programs which must be loaded to fire up the NIU card. My batch fileis below: (some stuff ...
Well, none of the replies have stated that gated will do what I want withrouting over IR PTP links, but then again, nobody has specifically saidit won't work, either, so I will give it a try.The current version of gated is 1.9.1.7, and is available fromgated.cornell.edu.And to answer the many ...
>The current version of gated is 1.9.1.7, and is available from >gated.cornell.edu.Actually the current version is 2.0.1.14. 1.9.1.7 would be rather old,since version 2 has been (de facto) production for a year or more.Sorry I can't help with the problem -- I could tell you plenty ...
Hi allI received several responses to my earlier question. Unfortunately sinceit was a user down, I didn't have the time to try all the suggestionsthat were mail to me. I found it much quicker to reload the OS andsave the important files. (fstab, passwd etc...)Thanks to everyone who replied. ...
Well, the replies have stopped coming in, so here's my summary. My originalquery:>I recently found that the standard Sun driver in SUNOS 4.1.1, on SPARC>workstations doesn't support high speed search for file marks on the 8500 (not>surprising, since is was only written for 8200 ...
It seems that the NeWS driver for the SparcPrinter does suffer from anxnews that keeps growing. Harold Ravlin, hr@spica.astro.uiuc.edu writes>I once saw it up to 24MB.It seems the only way he's found is to kill it with a cron.I have a follow-up. Is there some way to have NeWSprint kill off ...
The short answer is no, you can't do it under 4.0.1 without having either<p>source or a Sun Consulting special. The long answer is that is it<p>possible under 4.1; I will be bundling up a summary once we finish<p>sweeping all the dead bits off the floor. Many thanks to all who<p>responded.<p>
THE REQUEST (posted Thursday September 5, 1991): > [...] Consequently we have an urgent need to buy a UPS for > this server and its disks. It should be rated to 5 kVA, > providing 7 to 10 minutes of backup power, conditioning the > supply in normal operation and equipped with an ...
Hi Sun-Managers, I received some interesting replies and allof them are worth including here. From the original question below, reason #1seemed to be a 50/50 split, while #2 was 100 ...
The original query:> We are faced with the task of writing a SCSI device driver to run our new> Solitaire film recorder from a Sun 4/60. We have source (4.1, not 4.1.1,> unfortunately) and folks who have written drivers before.> > I have found references to two Sun manuals that ...
Unfortunately, I don't have a definite answer on this one, butI do have some good suggestions. We will try shuffling thecontrollers in our system the next time it goes down (it's beenrunning for a week with no problems at ...
A recap of my problem: I had a sun 4/260 w/ scsi tape, no externalscsi bus and a crashed disk. I also have a bunch of sparcs w/ tape drivesand cd-rom. I didn't have a sun4 boot tape. The question was"how do I build a sun4 boot tape"?The answer seems to be "you can't, ...
Several folks responded, about half of whom have gotten fixes from Sun.Bug #: 104616.Patch ID: 100342-01.If you want it, use the regular route provided by Sun. Call in and get it forfree if you are under S/W maint. or call in and get charged if you are notunder maint.Thanks to the following ...
In sun-managers, Wed Sep 4, 1991 I wrote:> > Some of my machines (not all of them!) exhibit the following> behaviour. When starting suntools, the message:> > open: permission denied> > appears briefly on the screen, then suntools starts normally> as if nothing had ...
Hello netland, Sorry I took so long to get a summary back on this, thats what happenswhen you are working 7 jobs at once. I want to thank all those who answeredme, and used a combination of of a couple of responses to solve my problem.Special thanks goes to Dr. Randy ...
---- Here's the original question ---------------------------------------------... Now I need to track uucp usage (# messages, #bytes, duration of calls).I had some scripts that parsed some log scripts under Pre-SunOS4.1, but theyaren't much help with HDB UUCP. It looks like xferstats under ...
I recently posted the following note:> My SPARCstation 1 console keeps getting the message:>>le1: WARNING: if_snd full>>I also temporarily lose touch with the outside world, so this is a significant >warning. This has happened roughly four times for roughly half an hour ...
Thanks to everyone who responded on my question about giant packets.It seems that the problem is most likely related to bad equipment onthe network. We talked to Cabletron (our main network hardwaresupplier), and they have loaned us a network monitoring package to help us track down the ...
A while ago I asked if anyone noticed that rimfire disks didn't notreport stats to the kernel such that iostat could show them.I got about 3 replies - 1 or 2 saying they had noticed the same thingand 1 saying he had mades changes to the rimfire driver some timeago on some old forgotten version ...
I asked:> Can someone point me at an FTPable copy of this patch:> > 100141-01 nres_gethostbyaddr logs misleading messages to consoleI found that: -01 is obsolete. The correct one to use is -02.-02 is, among other things, on the SUG CD-ROM along with zillions ofother patches ...
I pointed out the (obvious) problem of determining *requested* automount mount points as opposed to *actual* mount points. I received many responses to myrequest for solutions/workarounds.Here's a message from Matt Cohen <chron!magic706!sysnmc@uunet.uu.net>, which best describes the ...
I had inquired about experiences with NFS on non-Suns. Following is a summaryof the responses. I've edited for space and may have introduced inaccuracies,so send all flames to me. hydres!paul@uunet.UU.NET: Ghastly NFS performance with Apollo DN3000 and DN10000 machines, both ...
Hello,the question wasMichael> We are using a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1 and MIT-XWindows asMichael> an X-Terminal. The Screen is corrupted whenever (mostly dueMichael> to a timeout) the Message "NFS server XXX not respondingMichael> still trying" is issued. I would like ...