[SunRescue] A couple of things.....

[Dave McGuire]

  You're drinkin' beers without me?  Man, I'll remember that. ;)

  jsharp and I are here at my place trying to get NetBSD/sparc64 running on my
new Ultra1/170.

    -Dave

On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
>Well here is my 2%of $1
>
>Sun boxen are built so well why not spend the $17.09 to get the correct
>NVRAM and program it to the machine, why is everyone so bent on saving what?
>$3.00 per year of use? C'mon get over it.
>
>Too many beers in  me.
>
>--Mike N
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu>
>To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org' <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:07 AM
>Subject: RE: [SunRescue] A couple of things.....
>
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Earl Baugh [mailto:earl at baugh.org]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:38 PM
>>> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>>> Subject: [SunRescue] A couple of things.....
>>>
>>>
>>> So, my second request.  From the earlier discussions, it seemed that
>>> there were places to pick up un-programmed NVRAMs, but I was
>>> wondering
>>> if someone had one sitting around from an old IPC they'd be willing to
>>> part with...I'm willing to pay a little, but this machine isn't work
>>> any huge investment....just scrap parts as they come up...
>>> (BTW, is there any difference between the NVRAMs between the
>>> various models...i.e. could I plug a SS10 NVRAM into the IPC?
>>> what would be the implications?? Is there any machine specific
>>> info in the NVRAM?...I've never done any reading to know what
>>> all was stored there, aside from what I heard about the ethernet
>>> address and machine id being there [is that correct?])
>>
>>Well, it seems to me that there is definately some machine specific
>>information stored there, since different revisions allow for different
>>processors to be used in the SS10/20 and a couple of others.  I'd say that
>>you really need to get the programming that is specific to your particular
>>machine, but the physical NVRAM chips could be identical (although they
>>don't have to be).  You might want to read over the NVRAM FAQ (which I
>>haven't done myself) to see what you can learn.
>> Greg
>>
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