[SunRescue] Unknown SBus 24-bit video card?

James Lockwood rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Mar 14 15:38:34 CST 2001


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Loomis, Rip wrote:

> It also has 32 individual Micron memory chips
> on board, each a 42C4256DJ-10, which looks to
> me like...hmm, maybe two 4MB memory banks?

256K x 4 bit each, so 4MB total.

> The SPARC 2 that it was pulled from a year ago
> also had the 64MB memory expansion and had
> supposedly been used for CAD work, but I can't
> even get the silly thing to display a POST.

Pull the keyboard and use a serial console to get to Openboot.  Then type
"show-sbus" to see what devices the card is publishing.  The next steps
would be to "show-devs", "cd /whatever-the-card-is" and ".properties".

Might not help but certainly won't hurt.

-James




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