[OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

[Ray Butler]

You can get replacement NVRAMs from here
http://www.memoryxsun.com/5251673.html.
I have hundreds of still in production Netra AX1105's and this is the only
source I've found for Sun NVRAM.
They come pre-programmed with MAC/Host ID so if you need the existing
config you'll have to program it yourself
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq

Ray



On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Lou Picciano <loupicciano at comcast.net>wrote:

> Hello Jim,
>
> We've got a few of these old beasts around; the last of 'em still
> anxiously awaiting its, uhhh... 'Retirement Party'.
>
> Seems to me we had to replace a battery on at least one of these at some
> point, but don't think it was the CR2032 'button' type, as I recall. Happy
> to send you some parts as needed(?), though distances probably an issue!(?)
> Happy, too, to disassemble one to find battery?
>
> I do remember the project of flashing the EPROM when we got these
> things...  Jumpers to be set, etc,; great fun!
>
> Lou Picciano
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Klimov" <jimklimov at cos.ru>
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> >
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:45:19 PM
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users
>
> Hello all,
>
>    My attention was requested to an old UltraSPARC E450 machine with
> Solaris 8, whose clock was going slower and worse for the past few
> days, maybe weeks. Since about today it has practically stopped -
> or more precisely, loops over the same 2-3 second interval over and
> over, even with NTP client enabled.
>
>    My hunch would be a dead battery on CMOS, or whatever the analog
> of one would be. Any ideas where it might be located, and what model
> it is (like CR2032 on Intel-compatibles)? Any more ideas?
>
>    So far they are doing backups and the machine will go into a diag
> reboot; normal reboot did not clear the errors at least.
>
>    The beast is old, but serves as an appliance of an old database
> which nobody knows how to manage or migrate nowadays, even if into
> a Solaris8 branded zone on a newer SPARC, and the production payload
> is needed and important. Nobody knows how it works, but they know
> too well what for. Bummer...
>
> Thanks for any hints, hunches, anecdotes...
> //Jim Klimov
>
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