Re: TOP Network Interface Port of a Sun Ultra 30


Hi Don!

I still have lots of serial devices to check, around the house, when
I get the serial connections again! :-)

Check them with the loopback connector (pin 2 to pin 3) and you
don't need the computers working to be sure that the terminals work.

That's true. I haven't checked more than the one yet, that worked on
the Sun attached to ttyb.

I didn't have one minute yesterday to get to "this stuff". And, I
still went to bed late...

Hmm ... you haven't told me what Exabyte it is. Let's go for
the easy thing to check. What color is the tape cartridge?

1) Black Older Exabyte up through 8505 -- cartridges for this
should be dirt cheap on eBay -- and you can also use
8mm video tapes with some loss in reliability.

2) White Mammoth -- moderately expensive on eBay, sometimes
real bargains available however.

3) Blue Mammoth-2 -- very expensive most of the time on eBay.

Sorry about that! :-O

The tape cartridge is black, with green letters where it says, on the
cartridge, EXATAPE, 8MM DATA CARTRIDGE, 112m, and Exabyte.

I just purchased a QFE card, just now, from Ebay. A "buy it now"
from weavh, with 100% positive comments. I just paid for it, via Ebay,
and they'll take it from my checking account.

It is a 501-4837 X1049A SBus Sun Quad FastEthernet Card.

When that arrives, I'll put it in a PCI slot in the Ultra 30.

No you won't! Unfortunately, the 501-4837 is the Sbus version
of the card -- and it won't fit in the Ultra-30. You need one of:

501-4366
501-5406
540-4094

the PCI versions to use in your Ultra-30. What you got can be used in
systems up to the Ultra-2 -- no later machine has the Sbus for it to
plug into.

I believe that I gave you the numbers to look for in an earlier
posting.

:-)

Well, first I want to say THANK YOU. Your indicating this, and my
emailing the ebay seller (weavh), and he's replied. He understands
COMPLETELY. And, he is switching it for me!

He mentioned he had the 501-4366 and the 501-5406 and he said he'd
prepare the 501-5406 for me. And, both of these numbers match what you
have, above.

But, actually, I went back to one of the earliest replies you had to
me in this thread, and here is what I saw:

<<>>
That is because you don't *have* a separate card for that Ethernet
port.

If you have a spare PCI slot, you can add another Ethernet card
there, or replace the existing second Ethernet card with a QFE (Quad
Fast Ethernet) card. Look for the following numbers in eBay (assuming
that you have no business paying for replacement hardware):

501-4837
501-5443

501-4302

The first two would probably be the better choices.
<<>>

So, I typed 501-4837 as a result of that!

No problem. Like I said, Jeff, the seller said he had a small house
fire in February and it took a LONG TIME to get back to normal, so he
understood my extra problems right now, dealing with lightning-fried stuff
while working (a job where my code was recently integrated, and I'm the
primary helper on AdaTEST) and trying to deal more with my mother than
I've had to in the past! :-O

Your telling me what you did allowed me to contact him, and the
501-5406 will be what is actually shipped to me! :-)

Just by renaming the hostname.hme0 and hostname.hme1 files to
hostname.hme1 and hostname.hme2 -- once you get the *right* QFE card.
Note that the PCI QFE card has LEDs to verify connectivity for each
port.

Okay... Actually, hostname.hme1 -- the Linux system, could be left
the same. Or, are you recommending that I also connect the Linux system
to one of these 4 QFE ports?

Yes -- and you could make a direct connection to the serial box
from one of those -- but you would have to edit some files to make it
work.

I AM planning on that! :-O A call to D-Link tech service (since I
am still able to make a free request, since I just recently purchased a
new D-Link router) wasn't much help!

I SUSPECT that I have to configure something in the D-Link router
differently. I've actually never had anything attached to one of the
ports that was LAN use only. The guy at Avocent and this tech support
person that I called right after midnight yesterday/Saturday said it was
possible. But, he wasn't any help whatsoever in helping me figure out
what that was!

I DO want it just attached to now another network port I'll have on
the Sun, where I can just configure it as another IP/ethernet port and not
have the D-Link stuff "in the middle". :-)

I am BEYOND EXHAUSTED. I probably will try disconnecting the D-Link
router from my Linux system -- TEMPORARILY -- and plugging the serial hub
directly into it -- just to see if I can communicate with it.

That will give me a confirmation it's working and perhaps give me a
better idea (seeing it on my web browser) of exactly what configuring a
serial port is all about. I just printed the 96-page manual, and I will
look over that.

I do SUSPECT it's working. The D-Link router showed the MAC address
of it as an "Additional computer" on the LAN. The D-Link router and it
seemed happy and fine talking to each other -- even if I couldn't! :-D

I'm going to bed tonight in time to get 8 hours of sleep before I get
up at 3:30 tomorrow morning! Every movement is a strain! :-(

My mother goes Wednesday to have her first eye, her left eye,
operated on for cataracts.

I can even see myself moving and thinking SO SLOWLY! I need to get
back closer to normal!

But, I want to say -- THANK YOU again! :-D My wrong card purchase
wound up being fixed before the wrong one was actually shipped to me, so
all is well!

Barry
--
Barry L. Bond | http://home.cfl.rr.com/os9barry/
Software Engineer, ITT Corporation | (My personal home web page, last
bbondATcfl.rr.com | updated February 17, 2005)
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