[SunRescue] A couple of things.....

[Mike Nicewonger]

Well here is my 2%of $1

Sun boxen are built so well why not spend the $17.09 to get the correct
NVRAM and program it to the machine, why is everyone so bent on saving what?
$3.00 per year of use? C'mon get over it.

Too many beers in  me.

--Mike N
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu>
To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org' <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:07 AM
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] A couple of things.....


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Earl Baugh [mailto:earl at baugh.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:38 PM
>> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: [SunRescue] A couple of things.....
>>
>>
>> So, my second request.  From the earlier discussions, it seemed that
>> there were places to pick up un-programmed NVRAMs, but I was
>> wondering
>> if someone had one sitting around from an old IPC they'd be willing to
>> part with...I'm willing to pay a little, but this machine isn't work
>> any huge investment....just scrap parts as they come up...
>> (BTW, is there any difference between the NVRAMs between the
>> various models...i.e. could I plug a SS10 NVRAM into the IPC?
>> what would be the implications?? Is there any machine specific
>> info in the NVRAM?...I've never done any reading to know what
>> all was stored there, aside from what I heard about the ethernet
>> address and machine id being there [is that correct?])
>
>Well, it seems to me that there is definately some machine specific
>information stored there, since different revisions allow for different
>processors to be used in the SS10/20 and a couple of others.  I'd say that
>you really need to get the programming that is specific to your particular
>machine, but the physical NVRAM chips could be identical (although they
>don't have to be).  You might want to read over the NVRAM FAQ (which I
>haven't done myself) to see what you can learn.
> Greg
>
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