Sparc2...FAILURE: No Trap Taken, Exp Trap Type - 00000009...Solved...simms in wrong banks...now more questions...

From: Dan Wright <dtwright_at_uiuc.edu>
Date: Tue Aug 7 10:08:17 2001

Steven Souchek said:
> I have a question. I have a Sparc2, 64mb mem, 2x4gb barracuda's. I got
> a hold of a sbus 10-100/scsi card and tried to install it. When it
> comes up, no beep, no screen. I'm figuring that it's not compatable but
> i would like to have someone tell me for sure. Is there anything I can
> do? I've unhooked everything. No Joy. Please let me know.

The 10/100 ethernet/SCSI sbus card is probably a Sun "Happy Meal"
ethernet/SCSI board, which is only compatible with sun4m and newer machines...
and your sparc2 is a sun4c. I've actually tried that same thing myself, and
it definitly doesn't work :(

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> Steven Souchek
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>
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- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)

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