Removing OBP/EEPROM passwords (was RE: [rescue] ID this card???)

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

G W Adkins wrote:


> Try this,  Pull the PROM, plug it back in only hard enough to make all the
> pins contact (in other words, hold it against the socket semi-firmly with
> one finger, but without seating it...) power up the box, wait for it to
> post, when you get to a prompt, pull the chip.


Worth a try. Thanks for the idea.


> You're in.


Hope so.

Alright, I need some content here so my signal-to-noise ratio works out. 

So, what's a Classic good for? It had 32M of RAM, now 96. I stuck some
simms from a pc in and it counts all the way up. Does that genrally mean
they'll work? I wasn't sure as there was some discussion a few days ago
about Classics taking special RAM. Apparently it's only special in the
Sun world? Seems to be regular commodity pc simms. Nothing so special
about them, though they're not as cheap as you might hope. Saw 32M simms
for $30 recently, and http://softwareandstuff.com had 64M for $55.

I have a 9G external scsi drive for it as well, thanks to whoever
pointed it out last week (the big 50-pin one also from
sotwareandstuff.com).

So what's a good use for this machine once we get it to boot?


---sambo