[rescue] Sun2 update

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Jul 6 18:33:59 CDT 2002


On July 7, Walter Belgers wrote:
> I've had to get an ECL monitor somewhere because I had no screen that I
> could connect to the 2/50. Now I do have an ECL monitor and the 2/50
> still works. It has a whopping 4Mb of memory.  I've been hinted at

  That's quite a lot for a Sun2.  The biggest one I've ever seen had
5MB.

> The 2/170 has a video card but it's showing nothing on the screen. I
> also attached a terminal to SIO-A. I do see the characters echoing, but
> not always the correct character, so it's probably a serial setting
> that's wrong. I haven't been able to find the correct serial settings
> yet.
> 
> Does it make a difference in which slot a card is put?

  Nope.  This is Multibus-I...straight-through bussing as far as I
recall.

      -Dave

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