14 May
2007
14 May
'07
10:28 p.m.
Howdy, guys.
I'm working on restoring a Sun 2/120. My particular machine appears
to have been a diskless workstation (no storage controllers). I think
I have enough spares to give it a local disk and QIC-11 drive, but
there is no obvious way to mount a drive of any type in the upper
part of the chassis. There's a cutout on the front panel, so I know
you were at least supposed to be able to put a tape drive up there.
Can somebody draw me a picture of how things are supposed to look
with drives in the cabinet?
I guess if worse came to worst I could attach one of the 511
shoeboxes, but I'd need a panel kit for my multibus SCSI controller.
Also:
I guess this is a long shot, but I would also like to find a Sun-2
keyboard and mouse for this machine. I'll pay some money for it, if
somebody has one they would be willing to part with.
Thanks!
ok
bear
14 May
14 May
10:56 p.m.
r.stricklin wrote:
Howdy, guys.
I'm working on restoring a Sun 2/120. My particular machine appears to
have been a diskless workstation (no storage controllers). I think I
have enough spares to give it a local disk and QIC-11 drive, but there
is no obvious way to mount a drive of any type in the upper part of the
chassis. There's a cutout on the front panel, so I know you were at
least supposed to be able to put a tape drive up there.
It's a while since I looked at the museum's Sun 2, but that's a 160, which I
assume is the same cabinet. There are no hard drives in the main box - it's
got another cabinet (of identical size to the CPU cabinet) that houses those.
The main cabinet does have the tape unit though, and I can't remember how all
that's plumbed in now. I could take a look at the machine at the weekend if
needs be (and if it's not currently buried behind a mountain of stuff)
I guess this is a long shot, but I would also like to
find a Sun-2
keyboard and mouse for this machine. I'll pay some money for it, if
somebody has one they would be willing to part with.
We're in the same position. Are you trying to get the keyboard/mouse in order
to complete the system, or just so that the system works?
cheers
Jules
11:31 p.m.
r.stricklin wrote:
I'm working on restoring a Sun 2/120. My
particular machine appears to
have been a diskless workstation (no storage controllers). I think I
have enough spares to give it a local disk and QIC-11 drive, but
there is no obvious way to mount a drive of any type in the upper
part of the chassis. There's a cutout on the front panel, so I know
you were at least supposed to be able to put a tape drive up there.
Can somebody draw me a picture of how things are supposed to look with
drives in the cabinet?
There's a top shelf in the cabinet. There's then a mounting bracket.
You screw the tape drive and one or two full-height 5.25" hard disks
to that bracket, then slide the bracket in from the side and screw it
to the shelf.
Are you missing the bracket?
-Frank McConnell
15 May
15 May
7:11 a.m.
On May 14, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Frank McConnell wrote:
There's a top shelf in the cabinet. There's
then a mounting bracket.
You screw the tape drive and one or two full-height 5.25" hard disks
to that bracket, then slide the bracket in from the side and screw it
to the shelf.
Are you missing the bracket?
I have what I assume is the bracket (at least for the QIC-11 drive;
it gets the drive to where the cutout in the front panel is) but
there are no obvious holes in the top shelf to fasten it to. I'm kind
of baffled that there would be a different chassis for a diskless
workstation or that they expected the addition of mounting holes to
be an FCO...
Is there supposed to be ANOTHER bracket, which I would then
definitely be missing?
ok
bear
6 p.m.
r.stricklin wrote:
I have what I assume is the bracket (at least for the
QIC-11 drive; it
gets the drive to where the cutout in the front panel is) but there
are no obvious holes in the top shelf to fasten it to. I'm kind of
baffled that there would be a different chassis for a diskless
workstation or that they expected the addition of mounting holes to
be an FCO...
Is there supposed to be ANOTHER bracket, which I would then definitely
be missing?
I'm going from memory, haven't had time yet to pull the 2/120 out and
take pictures....
MT02? here
------------------- QIC
disk | disk tape drive
here | here here
=======================================
This sits on (and I think is screwed to) the top shelf inside the
cabinet. I'm thinking the screws are along the edge of the shelf so
you can get at them easily having taken the side panel off.
The disks in mine are 5.25" full-height 85MB MFM units, there's an
ACB4000 mounted elsewhere in the case for them. You don't get to use
actual SCSI disks until SunOS 4.0, remember.
I can't remember if that board on top is an MT02 or SC4000, just that
it's for the tape drive.
-Frank McConnell
3:08 p.m.
On Monday 14 May 2007 15:28, r.stricklin wrote:
Howdy, guys.
I'm working on restoring a Sun 2/120. My particular machine appears
to have been a diskless workstation (no storage controllers). I think
I have enough spares to give it a local disk and QIC-11 drive, but
there is no obvious way to mount a drive of any type in the upper
part of the chassis. There's a cutout on the front panel, so I know
you were at least supposed to be able to put a tape drive up there.
Can somebody draw me a picture of how things are supposed to look
with drives in the cabinet?
I guess if worse came to worst I could attach one of the 511
shoeboxes, but I'd need a panel kit for my multibus SCSI controller.
Also:
I guess this is a long shot, but I would also like to find a Sun-2
keyboard and mouse for this machine. I'll pay some money for it, if
somebody has one they would be willing to part with.
You might also want to post this to the "Suns at Home" list:
suns-at-home at net-kitchen.com
Cheers,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
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