[rescue] spaerc10 +x1059a+fastethernet

[john]

Well it works and works well. The X1059a FastEthernet s-bus card cost
$29 +/- from MemoryX and the FastEthernet 2.1 installation ISO shared by
one of our members worked like a charm.B Tests reveal that I'm getting
100 mbs which is 10 times the speed i had before.

I now have the following: SPARC 10 with Turbo-GX frame-buffer, the
X1059a FastEthernet card, two Ross 625 Hyper CPU's, 484 Megs of RAM,
(good thing it doesn't cost $695 per 4 megs like it did in 1991) the V5
SCSI2SD adapter on a 3d printed sled, and (gasp) 4 2.1 Gig SD drives on
a 16 gig industrial micro-sd chip.

Also the SPARCprinter S-Bus card along with the printer, 2.3 gig Sun
Exabyte drive, and a Sun CDROM with the Sony drive replaced with a good
matsushita cd. Also the audiobox. I also have a Sun QIC tape drive for
me to discover that all of the belts on my old tapes are stretched.B
After tons of searching I was never able to find a source for new belts.

Print processing with NewsPrint for FRAME and GhostScript (GhostPrint)
for everything else.B I can network print from the linux machines and
the apple to the SPARCprinter but haven't yet figured out how to print
to it from Windows 10 - installing PPD printers in Windows 10 isn't obvious.

So thanks to two of our readers here for the FastEthernet software and
the advice and old SPARC10 which I parted out to fix my original machine.

best regards,

john ferguson
_______________________________________________
rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue

[Dave McGuire]

Wow. What a damn fine system. I believe I literally drooled just a
bit when I was reading this description. :)

-Dave

Post by john
Well it works and works well. The X1059a FastEthernet s-bus card cost
$29 +/- from MemoryX and the FastEthernet 2.1 installation ISO shared by
one of our members worked like a charm.BB Tests reveal that I'm getting
100 mbs which is 10 times the speed i had before.
I now have the following: SPARC 10 with Turbo-GX frame-buffer, the
X1059a FastEthernet card, two Ross 625 Hyper CPU's, 484 Megs of RAM,
(good thing it doesn't cost $695 per 4 megs like it did in 1991) the V5
SCSI2SD adapter on a 3d printed sled, and (gasp) 4 2.1 Gig SD drives on
a 16 gig industrial micro-sd chip.
Also the SPARCprinter S-Bus card along with the printer, 2.3 gig Sun
Exabyte drive, and a Sun CDROM with the Sony drive replaced with a good
matsushita cd. Also the audiobox. I also have a Sun QIC tape drive for
me to discover that all of the belts on my old tapes are stretched.BB
After tons of searching I was never able to find a source for new belts.
Print processing with NewsPrint for FRAME and GhostScript (GhostPrint)
for everything else.BB I can network print from the linux machines and
the apple to the SPARCprinter but haven't yet figured out how to print
to it from Windows 10 - installing PPD printers in Windows 10 isn't obvious.
So thanks to two of our readers here for the FastEthernet software and
the advice and old SPARC10 which I parted out to fix my original machine.
best regards,
john ferguson
_______________________________________________
rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue

[Mike Spooner]

Post by john
Well it works and works well. The X1059a FastEthernet s-bus card cost
$29 +/- from MemoryX and the FastEthernet 2.1 installation ISO shared by
one of our members worked like a charm.B Tests reveal that I'm getting
100 mbs which is 10 times the speed i had before.
I now have the following: SPARC 10 with Turbo-GX frame-buffer, the
X1059a FastEthernet card, two Ross 625 Hyper CPU's, 484 Megs of RAM,
(good thing it doesn't cost $695 per 4 megs like it did in 1991) the V5
SCSI2SD adapter on a 3d printed sled, and (gasp) 4 2.1 Gig SD drives on
a 16 gig industrial micro-sd chip.
Also the SPARCprinter S-Bus card along with the printer, 2.3 gig Sun
Exabyte drive, and a Sun CDROM with the Sony drive replaced with a good
matsushita cd. Also the audiobox. I also have a Sun QIC tape drive for
me to discover that all of the belts on my old tapes are stretched.B
After tons of searching I was never able to find a source for new belts.
Print processing with NewsPrint for FRAME and GhostScript (GhostPrint)
for everything else.B I can network print from the linux machines and
the apple to the SPARCprinter but haven't yet figured out how to print
to it from Windows 10 - installing PPD printers in Windows 10 isn't
obvious.
So thanks to two of our readers here for the FastEthernet software and
the advice and old SPARC10 which I parted out to fix my original machine.
best regards,
john ferguson

Glad to hear your happy ending, and good to know that the CDROM I "should"
have thrown out
decades ago wasn't - makes me feel a little less guilty of holding on to so
much "no-one will ever need *this*" stuff!

-- Mike
http://mbus.sunhelp.org
_______________________________________________
rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue

[Dave McGuire]

Post by Mike Spooner
Glad to hear your happy ending, and good to know that the CDROM I "should"
have thrown out
decades ago wasn't - makes me feel a little less guilty of holding on to so
much "no-one will ever need *this*" stuff!

Yeah I don't think I've ever heard of a scenario in which that logic
has actually worked. ;) Packrats will SAVE YOUR ASS, over and over again.

-Dave

[Jonathan Patschke]

Post by john
I now have the following: SPARC 10 with Turbo-GX frame-buffer, the
X1059a FastEthernet card, two Ross 625 Hyper CPU's, 484 Megs of RAM,
(good thing it doesn't cost $695 per 4 megs like it did in 1991) the V5
SCSI2SD adapter on a 3d printed sled, and (gasp) 4 2.1 Gig SD drives on
a 16 gig industrial micro-sd chip.

That's a nicely provisioned system!

You may want to add some external fans on the side of the case opposite to
the PSU to act in a push-pull configuration with the PSU. The SS10 didn't
have the ventilation of the SS20, and two HyperSPARCs are really pushing
the thermal limits of that chassis.

On the other hand, not having a pair of 1990s-era hard drives in there
gives you back a little more headroom.