SUN tape drive was RE: Sun 1 question

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 18:54:17 1999

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
>>
>>
>
Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 18:54:17 BST