[SunRescue] Re: Trying to save Sun2

[Michael Thompson]

I have a running Sun 2/120 at home. I have SunOS 4.0.1 on it now,
but I believe that I have the 4.0.3 update.

It was a pain to get running because the tape drive doesn't work.
I formatted a disk on a Sun3, installed the miniroot, and pulled
the install files from a Sun3 server.

I have three video boards for it. One TTL only, and two ECL/TTL.
I can't get ECL video out of either board. Ideas?


>Bill Bradford pointed this list out to me, as I'm trying to save an old
>Sun2 from the dumpster. Well... that is to say... I think it's a Sun-2.
>It's a deskside chassis (without the outside covers) with a 9-slot
>MultiBus cardcage inside. In the cardcage is a card that says "Sun 2
>Processor", a 3com network card, a keyboard/mouse/display interface, a
>combined SCSI/4x serial ports interface, an SMD disk interface and 3
>memory cards. Thusfar, comparing it to the information I could find on
>the web, it looks like a Sun-2/120. But, in the Sun-2/120, the memory
>cards should be in slots 2,3 and 4. However, slot 3 has only one card
>edge copnnector (as opposed to two for the other slots). The only card
>that doesn't need the second connector is the SCSI/4xserial controller.


Michael Thompson
E-Mail: M_Thompson at IDS.net