Sun NVRAM battery hackery - later models

If you can get a direct replacement from Mouser (or - try Jameco - they have some older, stranger stuff; I just bought some 6809s there a few weeks ago; find anyone else still selling those...) and the restoration project is worth it to you, I'd do that. Yeah, it's $20 but you'll be good for another decade and you won't have a grievous hack on the battery :) That's my stance on it. I have a couple of old SGI machines where I need to go through the same process here pretty soon. Should probably do one of my SS20s as well, but at least those will start up with a dead NVRAM and I have plenty of SBus NICs with fixed MAC addresses... On similar topic, let's say an Indigo2 and an Indy take the same model of Dallas chip (I haven't checked). If the Indigo2's chip still had some "juice" in it, could you swap it into the Indy and get it to fire up? Or will I just end up with a corrupted NVRAM that neither system will touch (don't want that...)? I have two live Dallas chips that still have "juice" - one in my Indigo2 that I actually run and one in a spare. I'd like to transfer the one in the spare to my Indy, but I don't want to not ever be able to put the chip back into an Indigo2. Best, Sean On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: