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

[Snock]

I've never owned a 4/110, but on the newer stuff they fused the SCSI bus
so your problem might not be so bad if it was only the fuse that went
south.  On the newer stuff, at least, the fuses look like little
cylindrical incandescent lamps.  They are socketed so there isn't even a
need to heat up the iron. 

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, BSD Bob wrote:

> 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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