[SPARCbook] 6.4 gig drive for 3GX?

Sun Dec 5 23:40:56 CST 1999

Was there ever an answer as to where to get a 6.4 gig drive for the 3GX?

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Today's Topics:

  1. SPARCBook 3gx and PCMCIA... (Steve Williams)
  2. Re: SPARCBook 3gx and PCMCIA... (Michael Lorenz)
  3. RE: SPARCBook 3gx and PCMCIA... (Kenneth Felix)
  4. Problem with upgraded SB 3GX (64M/6.4G) (Ken Hansen)
  5. Re: Problem with upgraded SB 3GX (64M/6.4G) (Bill Strange)
  6. Re: Problem with upgraded SB 3GX (64M/6.4G) (Sunder)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 21:53:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Williams <smw at pixel.citadel.org>
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SPARCbook] SPARCBook 3gx and PCMCIA...
Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org

 I've got a sparcbook 3gx and a Linksys 10/100 ocmcia ethernet card.  I've
never used pcmcia with *ix before and I have no clue how to get it
recognized.  The system is running Solaris 2.5.1.  I guess I just need to
know the device name for it.  Anyone?

 TIA,
 -Steve

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:23:12 +0100
From: Michael Lorenz <ml at wisent.de>
Organization: WiSenT GmbH
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] SPARCBook 3gx and PCMCIA...
Reply-To: ml at wisent.de
Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org

Greetings...

>  I've got a sparcbook 3gx and a Linksys 10/100 ocmcia ethernet card.  I've
> never used pcmcia with *ix before and I have no clue how to get it
> recognized.  The system is running Solaris 2.5.1.  I guess I just need to
> know the device name for it.  Anyone?
Hmm, as far as I know the only PCMCIA network cards supported by Solaris
2.5.1 are the 3c509 and some Wavelan device, nothing else.
Anyway, to recognize hardware try <drivers>, should be in /usr/sbin, the
device name for the 3c509 would be pcel0 or pcel1, depending on the slot
it is plugged in.

bye
Michael

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Message: 3
From: Kenneth Felix <kfelix at hyperfeed.com>
To: "'sparcbook at sunhelp.org'" <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Subject: RE: [SPARCbook] SPARCBook 3gx and PCMCIA...
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:50:50 -0600
charset="iso-8859-1"
Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org

I think a 3c509 series is a ISA card, I don't think this will fit into a
sparcbook pcmcia slot......

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From: Michael Lorenz [mailto:ml at wisent.de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 8:23 AM
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] SPARCBook 3gx and PCMCIA...

Greetings...

>  I've got a sparcbook 3gx and a Linksys 10/100 ocmcia ethernet card.  I've
> never used pcmcia with *ix before and I have no clue how to get it
> recognized.  The system is running Solaris 2.5.1.  I guess I just need to
> know the device name for it.  Anyone?
Hmm, as far as I know the only PCMCIA network cards supported by Solaris
2.5.1 are the 3c509 and some Wavelan device, nothing else.
Anyway, to recognize hardware try <drivers>, should be in /usr/sbin, the
device name for the 3c509 would be pcel0 or pcel1, depending on the slot
it is plugged in.

bye
Michael

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Message: 4
From: Ken Hansen <khansen at pluto.njcc.com>
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:54:38 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [SPARCbook] Problem with upgraded SB 3GX (64M/6.4G)
Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org

Hello all,
	I am having a problem with rebuilding my SB 3GX
now that I have upgraded the RAM to 64 Meg and put a new
HD inside. I can boot off the original 1.2 Gig drive
with my new RAM size (but no suspend/resume!), but when
I put the new 6.4Gig SCSI drive inside the tray and
boot the laptop, I can not get the install to accept the
drive (no valid Sun disklabel IIRC)...

	I know others have replaced their drives, how
did you get around this? On a typical Sun system I would
simply boot off another disk, then label/partiton drive,
but I can't see how to do that here.

	I do have external SCSI drives available, should
I build an external backup of my 1.2Gig HD image, boot
from that ext. drive/backup and then label/format the new
drive and restore images into larger partitions?

Help.

Thanks,

Ken
khansen at njcc.com

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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:11:02 -0600
From: Bill Strange <wstrange at polarisdata.com>
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Problem with upgraded SB 3GX (64M/6.4G)
Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org

Ken Hansen wrote:

> Hello all,
>         I am having a problem with rebuilding my SB 3GX
> now that I have upgraded the RAM to 64 Meg and put a new
> HD inside. I can boot off the original 1.2 Gig drive
> with my new RAM size (but no suspend/resume!), but when
> I put the new 6.4Gig SCSI drive inside the tray and
> boot the laptop, I can not get the install to accept the
> drive (no valid Sun disklabel IIRC)...

What I did was allow the solaris install sequence to continue to the GUI
level, and before continuing with anything at all just opened a command
tool and ran format.  This allows a back-door approach to labeling and
partioning.  Then, I just rebooted and ran the install nominally.  It
will see the drive at that time and you can take or leave your original
partitioning.

Bill Strange

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:31:01 -0500
From: Sunder <sunder at sunder.net>
Organization: Sunder.NET
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Problem with upgraded SB 3GX (64M/6.4G)
Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org

Ken Hansen wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>         I am having a problem with rebuilding my SB 3GX
> now that I have upgraded the RAM to 64 Meg and put a new
> HD inside. I can boot off the original 1.2 Gig drive
> with my new RAM size (but no suspend/resume!), but when
> I put the new 6.4Gig SCSI drive inside the tray and
> boot the laptop, I can not get the install to accept the
> drive (no valid Sun disklabel IIRC)...

If you have an external 512 byte/block SCSI CDROM (i.e.: A Sun compatible
CDROM), you can boot off of that, and upgrade to Solaris 2.6.

Once you go to 2.6 be sure to throw the tadpole 2.6 patches or else you
won't
have power management, X, or anything else.  If you decide to go with 2.6,
don't forget to apply the latest recommended Sun patches, including
security,
Y2K, etc.  Then go have a visit to ftp://metalab.unc.edu for the usual
GNUwarez
of packages you'll be needing, etc.

(Mine took overnight to apply the 2.6 patches, be sure your sparcbook has
lots
of ventillation while you install/patch 2.6 as the power manager is disabled
and your book will get very hot!  I popped the feet up on mine and placed it
on
a slab of marble from the kitchen, then aimed a fan at it!)

2.6 doesn't require a special partition to swap out the RAM to when it
sleeps.
2.5.1 with the NCE does.

If you really want to stick to 2.5.1, I'd suggest you attach an external
CDROM
and another SCSI hard disk.  Boot from a Solaris 2.5.1 CD.  (use boot cdrom
-SVR to skip the install, boot verbosely, etc)

Then Backup all your files to that, shutdown, install the new disk,
partition
it with format, newfs each of the slices, restore the files you've backed
up,
and install a new boot sector.

Don't forget to include /dev and /devices as well as the NCE stuff!

To install a new boot sector, hit the installboot manpage.  Basically you
have
to run /usr/sbin/installboot bootfile /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0 (or whatever disk,
notice there's no slice because this goes before the partitions).  You can
probably find the bootfile in /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs.

(This should be /usr/platform/sun4m/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk but I don't have the
sparcbook infront of me.)

If you change the partition slice order (ie: var is now slice 3 instead of
whatever it was) Be sure to edit the new /etc/vfstab and if you're sharing
/etc/dfs/dfstab or your tadpole will be very confused when it tries to boot
from different slices. :)

>         I do have external SCSI drives available, should
> I build an external backup of my 1.2Gig HD image, boot
> from that ext. drive/backup and then label/format the new
> drive and restore images into larger partitions?

Don't make an image of the old 1.2G disk - if you do, you'll be limited to
slices of that size when you mount them on the new drive - which is okay if
you
know you'll never use more space than you have available, but...

OTOH, If you've dd'ed the backup slice (i.e. that one big s2 slice whose
cylinders encompass the whole disk) congrats, you've just limited your
entire
new disk to 1.2Gb :)

It's not an easy process, but it's straightforward, and lots of fun -
especially when you get everything to work!  Enjoy.

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