[SunRescue] Blew the gillywatzits off my 4/110 cpu.....(:+{{...

BSD Bob bobkey at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu
Mon Feb 7 12:56:52 CST 2000


This weekend, I was playing with my 4/110 vme crate (the least of the
ancient Sparcs), and had it running fine on OpenBSD, then did a dumb
stunt.... tried to hook up a 525mb tape drive (which had something set
wrong and probably put terminator power onto the bus).  Alas, my musty,
dusty, rusty ol' 4/110 cpu blew its scsi port.  It was the first Sun
board of any kind I have ever blown, oh well.  Anyone know if something
like that is fixable?  Anyone know if terminator power is the probable
cause of blowing it up?  I had a 250mb tape without terminator power
capability, and it ran OK.  The 525mb drive had the terminator capability,
and .... poof.  I thought open the jumper to remove terminator power,
but I guess that was upside down....

Anyone know of a singleboard vme cpu with built-in scsi of the
early sparc class that is up for grabs?

If not, can anyone suggest what to stuff a 3-slot box with, and where one
might fine such a critter?

The last option might be to stuff a 3/160 cpu board and sun2 controller
into it, for one last gasp, watering it down to a 3/60 sort of status.

Any suggestions for the beerdrinkers budget or less are appreciated.....

Thanks

Bob







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