[rescue] Wanted: SS2 NVRAM

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Sat Nov 27 23:12:12 CST 2004


On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:08:40PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> On 25-Nov-04, at 1:52 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> 
> >Possibly. I don't know for sure if the chassis is connected to GND on
> >old SPARCs. But most likely it is connected to GND. Get out your old
> >Ohm-meter...
> >
> 
> Hehehe, that reminds me of one of my SS5's at home. Somehow the chassis 
> is live with sufficiently high voltage to really hurt. Yet the machine 
> runs fine so I haven't bothered to replace it. It's kind of funny, it's 
> my firewall.

Protected even against physical intrusion!  :)


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