[Sunhelp] Newbie Tips

[Parag Patel]

Just a though, you didn't mention if they were 3 chip or 9 chip SIMMS, according
to some of the sun references I consulted earlier, there is a timing problem using
the 3 chip SIMMs.

But what do I know?

Parag Patel
ppatel at preferred.com

Michael Radtke wrote:

> Ok, I put the memory in, just one bank of 1 Meg SIMMS that I KNOW are all
> the same in the 0 bank, and I left the remaining banks empty.  When I turn
> the machine on, I still cannot get any terminal activity.  The green light
> on the front, though, flashes once, turns off, then flashes 6 times.  It
> keeps repeating this cycle.  I can hear the fan coming on, the floppy
> clicking, and the first HD spinning.  Any ideas?
>
> At 04:07 PM 7/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Michael Radtke wrote:
> >
> >> First of all, thank you very much to everyone that has helped me so far
> >> with my hand-me-down Sparcstation 1.  I really appreciate it!  I have
> >> gotten memory installed, (eight 1MB simms for now), and would like to fire
> >> this puppy up and run it remotely via a null modem/serial cable connection
> >> to my NT box.  The problem is that, when I start the Sun, I see the lights
> >> come on and hear the power supply fun run, but no other activity.  I cannot
> >> see a thing with either Hyperterminal or HostAccess.  I thought that all I
> >> had to do was start the Sun without graphics or a keyboard plugged in and
> >> attach a null modem connection to port A to see terminal output on my PC.
> >> Am I missing something?  Is something wrong with the BIOS?
> >
> >Which slots are the SIMMs installed in, and are they full parity and 100ns
> >or faster?
> >
> >An earlier poster mentioned the SIMM layout required for the SS2.  The
> >other SparcStations that use 30-pin SIMMs require them to be installed
> >contiguously.  From the Sun h/w reference:
> >
> >        Memory consists of up to sixteen 1M (501-1408) or 4M (501-1625
> >        or 501-1739) x 9 30-pin 80 or 100ns SIMMs, in four banks. Banks
> >        must be filled in the order 0, 2, 1, 3, and SIMM types may not
> >        be mixed within banks.
> >
> >                Nearest disk connectors
> >                 _______     _______
> >                |       |   |       |
> >                |   0   |   |   1   |
> >                |       |   |       |
> >                |_______|   |_______|
> >
> >                 _______     _______
> >                |       |   |       |
> >                |   2   |   |   3   |
> >                |       |   |       |
> >                |_______|   |_______|
> >
> >                Nearest SBus connectors
> >
> >In other words, the first four SIMMs should go in U0585/U0586/U0587/U0588,
> >the next four should go in U0589/U0590/U0591/U0584, and so on.
> >
> >-James
> >
> >
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> Michael Radtke
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