[SunRescue] exploding sun psus

[John Honniball]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 01:51:45 -0800 (PST) 
=?iso-8859-1?q?kebabthesheep?= <kebabthesheep at yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> Well, it cetainly has been an interesting weekend.  Massie and I 
> bimbled on over to chez
> Honniball, and cleaned him of house and home :)  The sun 3/470 and 
> 4/370 *just* went in the car,
> and the boot filled with sparcs.  Muchos gracious!

Well, thank you for the large empty space you so kindly 
installed in my house :-)

> Build up the 3/470,...  Power up.  **BANG**  Psu blows
> its guts out 
> :(

Oh dear... It worked last time I tried it, honest Guv...

> Ah well.  The backplane on the 3/470 is a bit wierd tho - neither scsi 
> controller works today -
> which is odd.  Yet both function in my 3/140, even the one John said 
> was broken!

Strange stuff this electronics...

> OH - the RML380Z now works fine with it's replacement low-density 
> controller :)  Both drives light
> up, make noise and try to do things, so I'm a happy bunny :)  I'd still 
> like to get the high
> density controller going sometime - but a least now i'm one step closer 
> to booting cp/m.

Bad news here, the UWE RML380Z is a diskless one -- no boot 
disks available.

--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball at uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England