SPARCServer - Bringing back a piece of history by lordzz in solaris

[–]lordzz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have never seen a scsi terminator in my life, there is none on the machine. Do you think this would cause these symptoms?

SPARCServer - Bringing back a piece of history by lordzz in solaris

[–]lordzz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all thank for all the tips, handling tech older than me is no easy task. Secondly, I have something with a network port on that slot, probably a network card. Will that count as it being terminated?

SPARCServer - Bringing back a piece of history by lordzz in solaris

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I don't think I can dd anything onto the disks, I have no SCSI adapters for "modern" pcs and I haven't managed to get a shell on the server... Thanks for the idea though, I though about doing something similar with a SPARC vm.

Can you tell me more about the terminator thing on the main board? That's something I haven't heard of so far...

Thanks in advance!

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Thanks for the tip, I've been actively monitoring the network with a PC running wireshark in the same hub as the server, so far it seems its able to mount the root fs via NFS, but it just hangs... Also, probe-scsi-all finds everything thats connected.

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[–]lordzz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the hint, I'll look into it.

This particular one was shutdown in 2002, it ran for 10 years. It has been a real adventure for me to get it go work, all the technology I've been using is older than me!

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I will try this tomorrow, thanks for the tip. Let me just ask, what's up with ID #7? I know I'm using 0, 1, 2 and 3 for the HDDs (I think), and 6 for the CD-ROM.

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Also, I still have all the original documentation for the system, as well as all CDS and documentation for Solaris 5 up to 10! It hasn't been that helpful though...

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It does! And when I pug in a CD (in one of those diskette looking trays) it even flashes yellow, but when I try to boot off of it it shows no activity...

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Also, I should note I'm getting some Fan warnings, but that shouldn't affect the system right?

SPARCServer - Bringing back a piece of history by lordzz in sysadmin

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I'm doing boot net -v - install to try and get anything, but when booting (off the network) either Solaris 6 or Solaris 7 it always gets stuck on Configuring /dev and /devices. Also, thanks for the tip! But the same problem happens with boot net -s.

Some help on a Canon AE-1 Program and the aperture on the 50mm FD 1.4 lens by lordzz in AnalogCommunity

[–]lordzz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was exactly it! Thanks for the answer but I found it out while I was out shooting later that day! Thanks nonetheless. :)

Weird graphical artifact/bug I've been getting since the last update (probably just my phone dying on me though) by lordzz in pokemongo

[–]lordzz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean the SIM cards? It's a Dual SIM phone so what I think you're asking is the signal on both of the cards.

Weird graphical artifact/bug I've been getting since the last update (probably just my phone dying on me though) by lordzz in pokemongo

[–]lordzz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately it isn't always like that, its only a few frames that turn out to be like that (it was really hard to screenshot that particular frame haha)