[SunRescue] SPARCstation 330 questions...

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Lockwood [mailto:lockwood at ISI.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 10:51 PM
> To: Sun Rescue List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] SPARCstation 330 questions...
> 
> 
> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > Well, I'm not getting any responses on the SunHelp list, I 
> thought maybe you
> > guys would know.  And this really is rescue related, I want 
> to rescue this
> > machine to that I can use it!  :-)
> > 
> > Someone on the SunRescue list was kind enough to help me 
> open my eyes and
> > figure out what the little beauty is(4/330).  Now that I 
> know, I've looked
> > it up in the Sun Hardware Reference, and found some nifty 
> stuff.  The
> > processor listed in part one is a CY7C601.  However, that's 
> not what my CPU
> > is labeled.  
> > LSIL1A4839
> 
> That's not the CPU, that's the FPC (the big chip in the 
> socket).  The CPU
> and FPP flank this chip, with the CPU being closer to the 
> center of the
> board and the FPP near the edge.

Cool, I found those chips...
I'm a little Sun acronym illiterate.  What do FPC and FPP stand for?  And
why is it that the FPC is replaceable while the CPU is not?

> 
> > Next question:  Where on this board would I find the Sun 
> P.N.?  I've removed
> > the framebuffer, which connects directly to the mainboard, 
> but I don't see a
> > sun P.N. anyplace.  :-(
> 
> Look either near the VME connectors (near the P1 connector I think) or
> next to the serial port connectors.  You won't find much, if 
> it's a 4/300
> it will be either p/n 501-1316 or 501-1742, both of which are 
> basically
> identical.
> 
> Lots of 4/300's (especially the 4/330's) had corrective wires soldered
> onto the boards (usually colored green).  This usually 
> indicates an early
> (though not pre-FCS) rev board.
> 
> > Last question, for now:  How do I take the ram off of this board?!?
> 
> With the ever popular Sun tool p/n 345-1184, more popularly known as
> "that funky T-shaped metal dingus with the hooks on the end".  At one
> point in time I had a drawerful of these things.  They make 
> it very very
> easy to remove memory from both the angled sockets (like the 
> 4/300) and
> vertical sockets (like on the Sparc 1), but are by no means necessary.
> Get a small flat-bladed screwdriver and push though one hole 
> on the SIMM
> to depress the plastic lever, then pry the SIMM out of the 
> socket.  Don't
> be afraid to use force, after 10 years those things are 
> pretty well jammed
> in there.  All 8 sockets on the mainboard must be filled.
> 
> Memory can be 1mb or 4mb true parity 30-pin SIMMs, 100ns or 
> faster.  Some
> 3-chip SIMMs will work (Sun actually shipped 3-chip 4mb SIMMs for a
> while), some won't.  Note that you need at least boot PROM 3.0.3 to
> support 4mb SIMMs, and you have to jumper J1900.  If you have memory
> expansion boards, they will have be be remapped as well.
> 
> -James
> 
> 
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