SPARCstation 20 with SCSI2SD

They're still made, but the new ones don't always work in place of the old ones -- not 100% anyway. It's been my experience that, on sun4c and sun4m, new 48T02s and 48T08s aren't 100% compatible. I've mentioned others' suggestions on what the differences are in my Tindie listings, and on the writeup on my site. That's why I designed the rebuild modules I've got available, I had around 50 48T02s to process! Writeup here: http://www.glitchwrks.com/2017/08/01/gw-48t02-1 (it's for the 48T02, but the process is the same...just the GW-48T08-1 is a little longer) The "not 100% compatible" symptom is that the clock fails power-on diagnostics, and some machines will drop to OpenBoot/firmware monitor prompt when that happens. NVRAM settings will be retained, but the clock may or may not run, and some machines won't auto-boot. I don't have any spare modules to rebuild, so I don't have premade replacements up at the moment. I've been rebuilding them for people when they send in their dead modules, but I'd guess most people here can do the rebuild themselves, time permitting. I wouldn't cut into the encapsulation with a powered tool like a Dremel, unless you're going to wear a face mask. I use a hacksaw with Lenox fine kerf blades. Any blade will do if you're only rebuilding a few NVRAMs. Thanks, Jonathan On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 11:30 PM Alan Perry via cctalk < cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: