[SunRescue] Sparcstation 20

Fri Sep 15 16:17:20 CDT 2000

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i'm a relative newbie to this world of Suns/Solaris/Unix etc.but I could =
really use some advice and help if anyone has any information.
   I basically garbage picked an old Sun Sparcstation 20 recently and =
dont know too much about it, ive done some research on it and i'm still =
pretty confused as to what my next step as far as fixing it up should =
be.
When i first found it, it had no memory in it, so i picked 64 megs up =
fairly cheap on E-bay. it now powers on and will make a beep so long as =
i have the keyboard plugged into it. However one of the hard drives =
spins rather noisilly and i assume its no good (it has 3 hard drives =
mounted in it 2 of them are seagates, and one of them is a quantum)  =
anyhow I'm fairly certain that the monitor isn't working, it powers on =
but will not display anything at all, not even a testpattern. if anyone =
has any ideas or suggestions as to what would be the next step in =
resurecting this thing i would love to hear from you.

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an old Sun=20
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fixing it=20
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>When i first found it, it had no memory =
in it, so i=20
picked 64 megs up fairly cheap on E-bay. it now powers on and will make =
a beep=20
so long as i have the keyboard plugged into it. However one of the hard =
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spins rather noisilly and i assume its no good (it has 3 hard drives =
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it 2 of them are seagates, and one of them is a quantum)  anyhow I'm =
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certain that the monitor isn't working, it powers on but will not =
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