Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > Hi John. > > On Saturday 06 August 2005 23:26, you wrote: > > On Saturday 06 Aug 2005 08:55, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > ...
> > The ss5's don't come with a floppy or CD drive, but I do have a SCSI CD > > burner attached to one of my amd boxes. How do I get round the openboot > > password to tell it to boot from the CD? > > External SCSI CD? You can attach it to the SS5. Openboot password? Are you > shure? I have never seen a machine with an openboot password (I think there > is an option to have a password - cannot check at the moment). Usually you > will get the openboot prompt. Type in "boot cdrom" - it will boot from CD > (drive needs to be jumperd as SCSI ID 6). Otherwise easy to boot over LAN (needs rarpd and tftpd), although I've not tried a complete installation like that (needs NFS?). Writing as another tyro, I've seen at least one SPARCserver with a password. I believe that Doctrine is to perform some 'orrible hack which involves plugging the NVRAM device with power applied, but it's /far/ easier to find somebody with a device programmer and copy a clean one. > > I have got 15 more of these plus a mass storage server coming. The monitors > > are 17" and very good quality. Any one know where I can get a gender bender > > that allows me to use some of them on IBM compatible VGA video cards? > > The old Sun monitors are fixed frequency monitors. Bad luck, I would say. As I understand it the monitors expect a composite sync on the green signal rather than it being split out PC-style, although in some cases there are hardware mods which will make them work. Looked at the other way- i.e. using a PC monitor on a Sun- I've had mixed results using an adapter: some work intermittently, others not at all. To my surprise an NEC MultiSync LCD1860NX works fine on SPARCserver/SPARCstation, other LCDs may also be worth trying. Another thing to take into account is that if run without a keyboard Suns tend to use the first serial port as their TTY. You might need to tie RxD with a resistor to prevent a break on this since otherwise it has the same effect as STOP-A. Running older machines is great as a learning exercise, but they tend to run warm. I'm currently going through power consumption as a housekeeping exercise and find that a SPARCstation 20 takes something like 135W at the login prompt, compared with 35W on a PC. I can't provide comparable figures for an Ultra, however in general BogoMIPS per Watt has improved dramatically over the last few years and probably that also applies to overall system throughput. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
