[SunRescue] (stupid) question...

[Maarten Deen]

Mark Lamb:
> [James Lockwood wrote:  RE: Swapping ss4/ss5 CPU's]
> 
> > Sure you can swap them, but it won't help you much.  The oscillators are
> > soldered.  Actually, the SS4/110 probably has a soldered CPU, I think
> > nearly all 110's did.
> 
> That's unfortunate - the ss5 has more storage (2 drives) - and I don't think
> I can swap out the hard drive on ss5 without buying a kit for ss4. =(

No? IIRC the ss4 has just the same connector as the ss5 does, maybe the location
is different. Isn't it bossible to use the cabling from the ss5 (cable to SCA
backplane, power cable) and the ss5's power supply in the ss4?

> [James Lockwood wrote:  RE: headless ss4]
> 
> > Are you set to 9600 8N1?  A mismatched parity setting can cause this.
> 
> Yep. It's strange. I do see the ss4 booting - but once it gets to a certain
> point it just halts with no error message. I'll get the exact area and
> verbage
> as to where it halts once home.

Halts or does not display? On several occasions I had the following:
booting was alright, then stopped displaying messages, but pressing return
after a while came up with a login prompt. If I set the terminal to 7-bit, it
would not display at first, then displaye something and have problems again
when the login pormpt came up.

Maarten