Re: 2 free SPARCstation LX in Silicon Valley, CA USA
Mouse <[email protected]>
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> Unpacking some boxes from storage, I came upon my 2 SPARCstation LX, > and would like to offer them to the NetBSD community. The LX is a nice little box, but crossposting to port-sparc64 give the misleading impression that they are, or at least can be, sparc64 machines. As far as I have been able to tell the LX is sparc32 only. > Here's the downside -- the IDPROMs are wearing out: [...] > If you wanted to replace the IDPROM, I found these folks: > http://www.memoryxsun.com/5251203.html If you're not afraid of attacking the dead chip with a dremel or file, it's relatively easy to add on an external battery, too. My saved data indicates that http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq and/or http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html describe how to do this. I've had success adding batteries to at least two chips based on an earlier version of those, so they managed to get _something_ right. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B