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Thanks for all your encouragement and direction. I had never laid hands on an actual Sun machine before. We just had Solaris x86 and couple of books. That visit was to encourage us to develop...

Dear Hicks,

Indeed it is delivered on that promising sparkle now... :) Big big thanks to you my old friend. Now I feel ready to tackle any old Sun hardware with more ease.

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Speaking of...

OK, got something going. Tried putting 1 DIMM for each processor, it didn't like it said "pairs incomplete". Then I put both DIMM strips I have into CPU1 instead of CPU0 as it arrived. It did long,...

Dear Gull, you read my mind, my thought exactly. As I am too lazy and too shy to try CPUs anyway. I have no spares for anything too. :)

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Crude but real simple...

My Good Man Hicks! You are Right on the money, again! This darth vader of a old sticky black power cable going to motherboard came loose man. Along with the smell of heated old plastics we got...

Correct, Hicks. Thanks. I will do that whenever I have a chance to sit down on it again. Meanwhile I had crossed off the grounding question. Problem is not that.
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And I tried both...

My apologies Hicks, no its not working, still the same. Since this is a hardware problem, I was simply saying maybe my issue here is the most basic one, my power connection. What I made is a 2-wire...

That link was great tried a few things they suggested. This may have various reasons, but they all related to some hardware connection it seems. Speaking of that, I was kinda suspicious of the...

Dear Hicksd8,

OK, new battery is keeping the system clock stable. Thanks for the heads up Hicks! :) Here is the latest SC action to celebrate:


ALOM BOOTMON v1.5.4
ALOM Build Release: 008...

Thanks Gull04. :) Good to save the time beforehand, and good to know I didn't burn that Solaris 10 for Sparc DVD for nothing. Will stay with that. Expecting an XVR-100 graphics card which has...

Dear Mr. Hicks,

Thanks again for your smart electronics probing from afar. :) Yes you are right, the coin battery is most probably dead. I bought this from a government surplus liquadator from...

And here is a sample of my SC action logs below:


ALOM BOOTMON v1.5.4
ALOM Build Release: 008
Reset register: e0000000 EHRS ESRS LLRS


ALOM POST 1.0


TTYD - Internal Loopback Test,...

Dear Hicks,

Downloaded all the manuals about Netra, ALOM, etc. Very superficial, lightly touches on things. But still explained a few points like the DB9 serial port. That indeed was not...

My Good Man Hicksd8,

Using that light blue flat cable, and power it up after connecting worked its charm. :) It seems to pass all tests. I can turn off the "critical" light with "setalarm...

Wow! Thanks for such a speedy, comprehensive and very kind reply Mr. Hicks! I will try the new method, and get back to you. I do thank Mr. Corona as well for connecting my message to you. My...

These are the rest of the pictures of my efforts on reviving the Netra.

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Hi Everybody,

Hope everybody is having fun with their Solaris installations and not pulling out too much of whatever hair they have left so far. :)

Just for sport, I bought an old Netra 240...