22 Apr
1999
22 Apr
'99
3:14 p.m.
Aaron,
It boots to the monitor prompt just fine but it won't boot from the hard
drive. It may have been set up to boot from a LAN and just use the hard
drive for local storage. I don't know enough about SUNs to know how to tell.
Joe
At 09:13 AM 4/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
What do you need to get the IPC going? I've got a
bunch of "extra" Sun
stuff around, so maybe I can help you get it going.
Or is it something more like non-functioning hardware? Does it boot to the
monitor prompt?
Aaron
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Joe wrote:
Aaron,
Got it open. It has a Exabyte EXB-8505 drive in it. Don't know what
I'll use it for. I haven't even been able to get my SUN IPC to boot yet.
Thanks for the help.
Joe
22 Apr
22 Apr
2:54 p.m.
Most common SPARC death cause is NVRAM battery failure. The most
interesting way this manifests itself is that the Sparcstation forgets what
architecture it is because it doesn't have a valid host id. See the SPARC
NVRAM FAQ for details on fixing this.
--Chuck
At 07:14 PM 4/22/99 +0000, you wrote:
Aaron,
It boots to the monitor prompt just fine but it won't boot from the hard
drive. It may have been set up to boot from a LAN and just use the hard
drive for local storage. I don't know enough about SUNs to know how to tell.
Joe
At 09:13 AM 4/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
What do you need to get the IPC going? I've
got a bunch of "extra" Sun
stuff around, so maybe I can help you get it going.
Or is it something more like non-functioning hardware? Does it boot to the
monitor prompt?
Aaron
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Joe wrote:
Aaron,
Got it open. It has a Exabyte EXB-8505 drive in it. Don't know what
I'll use it for. I haven't even been able to get my SUN IPC to boot yet.
Thanks for the help.
Joe
4:25 p.m.
Thanks for the tip Chuck. I'll check it when I have time (no really!)
Joe
At 04:54 PM 4/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
Most common SPARC death cause is NVRAM battery failure.
The most
interesting way this manifests itself is that the Sparcstation forgets what
architecture it is because it doesn't have a valid host id. See the SPARC
NVRAM FAQ for details on fixing this.
--Chuck
At 07:14 PM 4/22/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Aaron,
>
> It boots to the monitor prompt just fine but it won't boot from the hard
>drive. It may have been set up to boot from a LAN and just use the hard
>drive for local storage. I don't know enough about SUNs to know how to
tell.
Joe
At 09:13 AM 4/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
What do you need to get the IPC going? I've
got a bunch of "extra" Sun
stuff around, so maybe I can help you get it going.
Or is it something more like non-functioning hardware? Does it boot to the
monitor prompt?
Aaron
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Joe wrote:
Aaron,
Got it open. It has a Exabyte EXB-8505 drive in it. Don't know what
I'll use it for. I haven't even been able to get my SUN IPC to boot yet.
Thanks for the help.
Joe
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