Old UNIX Systems

On 30/05/2013 01:04, Zane H. Healy wrote: I keep my Ultra-60 to remind me of how quick, reliable and user friendly my modern Windows-7 I5 Intel boxes are. Yes the I5 desktop gets re-booted once a week but so long as I keep the cat hair out of the heatsink it works reliably. A scheduled task runs daily, and, when there have been changes it builds the Windows releases of the Hercules emulator in a couple of minutes. There are noxious batch scripts using "For" that then upload the files to:- http://www.smrcc.org.uk/members/g4ugm/snapshots/w32/ and .../w64 but If I am up late using the machine I don't notice. The Lenovo T410 laptop is a delight to use. It boots up quickly has plenty of batter life and disk space. In contrast the U-60 has sulked the last couple of times I tried to use it. The second disk keeps sulking and I have to chkfs it despite making sure I close the system down cleanly. The NVRAM which is really battery backed up RAM has died. With a dead NVRAM the U60 won't talk to the generic VGA display so I needed a serial terminal to plug in to set it up before booting. So the poor think got a Windows/XP PC with Hyperterm stuffed in its serial port so I could debug it. (Actually I lie, I used a Vintage TeleVideo Personal Terminal like this:- http://pmlol.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Televideo-personal.JPG and no thats not mine....) but at work I often use a Windows server in the same rack as our SUN servers to Hyperterm to a sulking SUN server... Anway unlike most PC's where you can just slot in a new battery, I need to order a new chip, so its down until that comes from China. I did try hacking into it with my Dremel "look alike" to replace the battery but its encapsulated in some epoxy type substance that seems "dremel proof" and makes glass feel like rubber.... Of course if I am really feeling Masochistic I try building Hercules on U-60 (and there is only a 64-bit build on Solaris) and it if works it takes around an hour, if memory servers me correctly. I havn't actually got it to build since 3.08 was released. I got GIT working after downloading what seemed like thousands of pre-reqs, only to I run ouf disk space for the source tree.... .. I suppose while the SUN is down I could try building on the PI as others have said its probably slow compared to the U-60 and if I run short of Disk Space in the U60 I guess the same will happen on the PI.... Dave G4UGM (any one any tips for DDing the data from the second hard drive in the U60 to a new drive, being SCA drives its not as easy as normal SCSI...)