SS1 ethernet MAC address...

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Thu Aug 30 09:04:48 2001

> I have a supply of the ones that work "just in case" plus as I get ones
> that die I am refitting them with a replaceable battery :) so they should
> last a good long time :) it just kinda frosted me that Sun cut corners and
> used non-documented addresses/registers in the timekeepers, and now the new
> ones fail, and sun has absolutely NO plans to fix their bios/OBP, for any
> of their machines (including those that are still supported) :(
>

Well you figure for EOL hardware, Sun has no reason to fix the
problem. It very well may have been a newbie engineer mistake that wasn't
caught in time. The end result is that it's not worth it to them to fix
the error. I would be surprised if they didn't eventually fix it for new
design hardware.

I finally got the SS1 booted up last night. This lead to two very
important discoveries. The installed drive is only 200MB and the bad
tracks far outnumber the good ones. :)

g.
Received on Thu Aug 30 2001 - 09:04:48 BST