30 Aug
2001
30 Aug
'01
9:04 a.m.
I have a supply of the ones that work "just in
case" plus as I get ones
that die I am refitting them with a replaceable battery :) so they should
last a good long time :) it just kinda frosted me that Sun cut corners and
used non-documented addresses/registers in the timekeepers, and now the new
ones fail, and sun has absolutely NO plans to fix their bios/OBP, for any
of their machines (including those that are still supported) :(
Well you figure for EOL hardware, Sun has no reason to fix the
problem. It very well may have been a newbie engineer mistake that wasn't
caught in time. The end result is that it's not worth it to them to fix
the error. I would be surprised if they didn't eventually fix it for new
design hardware.
I finally got the SS1 booted up last night. This lead to two very
important discoveries. The installed drive is only 200MB and the bad
tracks far outnumber the good ones. :)
g.