Sun 2/120 keyboard and mouse?

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 09:08 -0500, Michael Thompson wrote: Well, it turned out to be a rather successful day with the machine. All of the boards proved to be OK despite the power supply explosion the other day. The replacement caps in the PSU seem to be holding and doing their job. When it got to be time to check out the disk cabinet, the PSU in that checked out OK (apart from one noise supression cap letting go). So, hooked it up to the disk and powered it up without the CPU. No horrible noises (except for the case fans - bearings are shot), and the drive ready LED came on. So far so good. Hadn't found any external SMD cables at that point, so took the case sides off and ran ribbon cables directly from the CPU cardcage to the SMD drive. Hooked up a vt420 terminal on the first serial board, and fired it all up - success! It's running SunOS 4.03 - after an initial fsck it booted to multi-user mode. The Ethernet card may be a source of trouble. It seems to want something that provides an external heartbeat - we hooked up a DEC hub to get around that problem, which stopped the "no carrier" messages on the console. However, it's still throwing up "Ethernet jammed" messages - and ideas what that's about? Also, the disk isn't perfect. It's thrown up a couple of unrecoverable ECC errors during the time we've had it running, so there are definitely one or two bad blocks on the drive. We've got spare SMD drives if needs be. Maybe SunOS has a bad block scanning / remapping command that can be used post-install? (Probably not though - it usually seems to be an install-time thing) Still, it seems happy enough. No sign of the proper console keyboard, but then using the 19" mono screen and a terminal console just for input seems to be working just fine, so that's no big deal... cheers Jules