All — I recently picked-up a nice condition Sun IPX (used to control a wafted stepping machine) and it largely works perfectly. I’m no Unix expert, but there are a couple of things I can’t seem to get working so I thought I’d ask the group. Printing — The IPX runs SunOS 4.1.4/Solaris 1.1.2. I have two networked Canon printers at home and both supposedly work with IPP/LPD but I can’t get any output. I have the IP set in /etc/hosts and what I think is the right definition in /etc/printcap, but no success yet. If someone has gotten this working let me know. I also thought about using a Raspberry Pi as a CUPS server but I haven’t gotten that working either. Floppy — can’t seem to get this working either. It passes the rudimentary diagnostics in OpenBoot, but I’ve tried mounting it from the shell with no success using the “pcfs” modifier. Anyway, if someone with Sun experience could nudge me in the right direction I’d appreciate it. I’ve put up a web page on my site with details of the machine. Thanks! Rich http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS
Yes. PAS5500. Not sure which sub-model though. I pulled the hard drive and replaced it with a ZuluSCSI. I can get into the software but it has some sort of login screen. The last system log entry was from 1997. Doing a whois on the original /hosts file points to a company in Brazil although the seller said it was excess from Barrick Gold. http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS ________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Jonathan Chapman via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2023 7:06:24 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Jonathan Chapman <lists@glitchwrks.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Sun IPX questions Rich,
I recently picked-up a nice condition Sun IPX (used to control a wafted stepping machine)
ASML machine, by chance? Thanks, Jonathan
It’s been many years since I ran a network of Suns but one thought is to try dd on the floppy drive just to see if you can stream bytes to the raw device. Also I seem to recall that automount was normally running on this machine trying to automatically mount a disk when inserted? So maybe check that you’re not butting heads with the automount process? 30 years of cobwebs may be clouding my brain … -Glenn Sent from my iPad
On Jul 20, 2023, at 6:20 AM, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
All —
I recently picked-up a nice condition Sun IPX (used to control a wafted stepping machine) and it largely works perfectly. I’m no Unix expert, but there are a couple of things I can’t seem to get working so I thought I’d ask the group.
Printing — The IPX runs SunOS 4.1.4/Solaris 1.1.2. I have two networked Canon printers at home and both supposedly work with IPP/LPD but I can’t get any output. I have the IP set in /etc/hosts and what I think is the right definition in /etc/printcap, but no success yet. If someone has gotten this working let me know. I also thought about using a Raspberry Pi as a CUPS server but I haven’t gotten that working either.
Floppy — can’t seem to get this working either. It passes the rudimentary diagnostics in OpenBoot, but I’ve tried mounting it from the shell with no success using the “pcfs” modifier.
Anyway, if someone with Sun experience could nudge me in the right direction I’d appreciate it. I’ve put up a web page on my site with details of the machine.
Thanks! Rich
http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group
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Thanks Glen. There is an entry in fstab for it now that you mention it, mounting to “/pcfs”. If I do an ls I get nothing. I’d have to look at the file tonight to get the exact line but it’s something like “/dev/fd0 /pcfs automount,0,0”. So you might be right on that. Rich http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS ________________________________ From: Glenn Roberts <glenn.f.roberts@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2023 7:18:03 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Richard Cini <rich.cini@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Sun IPX questions It’s been many years since I ran a network of Suns but one thought is to try dd on the floppy drive just to see if you can stream bytes to the raw device. Also I seem to recall that automount was normally running on this machine trying to automatically mount a disk when inserted? So maybe check that you’re not butting heads with the automount process? 30 years of cobwebs may be clouding my brain … -Glenn Sent from my iPad
On Jul 20, 2023, at 6:20 AM, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
All —
I recently picked-up a nice condition Sun IPX (used to control a wafted stepping machine) and it largely works perfectly. I’m no Unix expert, but there are a couple of things I can’t seem to get working so I thought I’d ask the group.
Printing — The IPX runs SunOS 4.1.4/Solaris 1.1.2. I have two networked Canon printers at home and both supposedly work with IPP/LPD but I can’t get any output. I have the IP set in /etc/hosts and what I think is the right definition in /etc/printcap, but no success yet. If someone has gotten this working let me know. I also thought about using a Raspberry Pi as a CUPS server but I haven’t gotten that working either.
Floppy — can’t seem to get this working either. It passes the rudimentary diagnostics in OpenBoot, but I’ve tried mounting it from the shell with no success using the “pcfs” modifier.
Anyway, if someone with Sun experience could nudge me in the right direction I’d appreciate it. I’ve put up a web page on my site with details of the machine.
Thanks! Rich
http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group
Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS
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