Re: Ultra 60 NVRAM
[email protected] (Volker A. Brandt)
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Dave McGuire writes: > If memory serves, these chips are shipped with the clock stopped, and > it must be started. Very dusty neurons remind me that some systems > react poorly to a non-incrementing clock. That might be it. AFAIK the OBP will detect a non-running clock and start it. I used to stop the clock inside the NVRAM when I put a sun4m-based system into storage, as that would save on battery. Unfortunately I never found the equivalent forth cmds for the sun4u machines... Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY Email: [email protected] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead"