27 Apr
2018
27 Apr
'18
11:18 p.m.
Tip on replacement hard drives: you can use a SCA drive with an adapter
inside some Sun boxes, or my personal favorite, a Sun "UniDisk" enclosure
with a SCA drive inside. SCA drives are really cheap, even for big ones
(they go up to 300 GB), and you can still get some of the later production
drives with 0 hours on them. You'll usually need to create a partition less
than 1 GB within the first 1 GB of the drive, or your Sun won't be able to
boot it. Larger partitions after that are OK.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 6:15 PM, systems_glitch <systems.glitch at gmail.com>
wrote:
Don't get the new MK48T02/MK48T08s from Mouser et
al, they're not fully
compatible. They will retain NVRAM but the clock part is different and
you'll get an error on that (system won't autoboot). Rebuild your old
NVRAM! I made up some little boards to make the repair cleaner and faster
to do (I had about 50 NVRAMs to repair):
http://www.glitchwrks.com/2017/08/01/gw-48t02-1
There are other guides for tacking on a coin cell holder without cutting
off the entire top encapsulation, but if you do that, it may not fit under
SBus cards if you're doing it on a system that puts SBus slots over the
NVRAM.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Alan Perry via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
- SPARCstation 1. Chassis is intact. It has a bad IDPROM; aside from
that
it passes onboard diagnostics. It has 12M
memory, no HDD now, and a
3.5"
floppy drive. It has no SBus cards. Aside from
the IDPROM, it doesn't
have any issues (but I haven't run an OS on it yet). Like the SS2, it
needs a bath. A small portion of the plastic cover over the rear of the
case is broken off.
What are these "actual parts expenses"? IDPROMs are around $25 on
Mouser.
SCSI HDDs start around $70 shipped on eBay and
SCSI2SD are $60 plus
shipping to me plus the SD price. Given the price of 25 year old HDDs
with
a stated service life of 5 years (according to
one spec sheet that I
read),
SCSI2SD looks pretty attractive.
When you say IDPROM, is that a Dallas built-in battery NVRAM type of
thing? I have an SS1 with a dead NVRAM thing. Are the currently
available versions of those new at Mouser fully compatible? Those are
one of those things that the new versions aren't always fully
compatible with the old versions for some systems, even though they
are supposed to be.
My SS1 is also in the Seattle area. If there is much demand for those
it's probably one of those systems I'll never get around to doing
anything with it myself. I also have a 4/110. Those seem to be a lot
less common, and maybe more collectible.