[rescue] New Sparc5 170 Rescue Questions

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 10:36 PM, Bill Vinson wrote:

> I too have a new hardware find today. I picked up a Sparc5 170 for very
> little money with no knowledge as to what it had in it or if it worked.
> Got it back to work and found that it seems to power up, but no
> memory/hard drive. I believe it works as the when the power is switched
> on, the PS fans and the CPU fan run, but the front light does not come
> on. I hope it is either not supposed to until POST, burned out, or not
> connected properly. The first option seems the most likely, but if
> anyone knows if that is correct, please let me know :)

Hi Bill.  Nice find.  The light doesn't come on until after it posts.

> Anyway, trying to find some memory, a hard drive with sled (not
> completely necessary as I also picked up a 411 with a 2GB drive), and
> possibly an SBUS nic for a firewall configuration probably running
> OpenBSD.

OpenBSD runs nicely on sun4m SPARCstations.  I may be able to help you 
with the NIC.  For memory & sleds, check out http://www.memoryx.com.  
HDD's are low profile SCA drives.


Chris Hedemark
Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com


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