[vcf-midatlantic] Sun IPX questions

[Glenn Roberts]

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

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> On Jul 20, 2023, at 6:20 AM, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> All —
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks!
> Rich
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