Solaris

Greetings -

I am looking for some assistance from someone who is familiar with Solbourn machines (Sparc Clone).

I have a workstation that I need to try to revive (long, complicated story) and do not have a working monitor (or a source where I seem to be able to find one that will work with it). It's been several years, but I do recall being able to get a serial console up on Sparcstations I have had in the past using a null modem cable and no monitor.

Does anyone have any experience who might be able to lend some suggestions or point me in a direction as to how I might be able to tunnel my way back into the machine and try to diagnose what is wrong with it. I have a spare here that might be good, but as of now I dont want to make any attempts to go after it until I can get some guidance on what procedures to follow to not break anything.

Thanks and Regards,

lbpd716

Yes, I'm old enough to remember these SPARC clones.

Firstly, it's Solbourne NOT Solbourn. That might help with Google searches.

https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers...ge/n0/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/bitsaver...lOct89_9824060

Dang android - I have been continuing to work on it, but have not been able to log in as of yet (or get it to boot into single user mode 'boot -s').

As it is firing up, it passes post but then almost looks like it starts throwing parity errors from the console as it becomes somewhat garbage. It later comes back to being clear readable text at a login screen. Somehow in the move of the machine I lost track of the transceiver from the back so it's also throwing those errors. I think I have a spare around here somewhere, if not I'm heading back to San Jose tomorrow to see if I can pick one up at WeirdStuff.