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   Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:04 JST Tube❄️Time

   welp, how'd i get into THIS situation? let's rewind...

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:05:59 JST Tube❄️Time

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     couldn't find a Sun 13W3 cable adapter so I'm doing this to get to VGA.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:00 JST Tube❄️Time

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     time to build an adapter. the connector is RJ11 (technically 6P4C) but it has these pins sticking out, presumably so you can't plug it into a phone jack.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:00 JST Tube❄️Time

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     ahh well, i'll just file some grooves.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:00 JST Tube❄️Time

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     adapter!

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:01 JST Tube❄️Time

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     i've also got some Sun mice. an M3 and an M4.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:01 JST Tube❄️Time

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     however, they have RJ11 connectors and the keyboard (which is where the mouse plugs in) just has a mini-DIN connector. uh oh.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:01 JST Tube❄️Time

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     which brings me back to here. does this mouse, despite the connector difference, use the same protocol?

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:01 JST Tube❄️Time

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     looks like it is essentially the same protocol as the version of the mouse (type 4?) designed for the SPARCstation. the output is open collector, inverted async serial, 5 byte.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:02 JST Tube❄️Time

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     on the back, we have the usual semi-cursed 13W3 video connector and the Sun keyboard connector. where am i going to find a Sun keyboard?

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:02 JST Tube❄️Time

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     i just happen to have one, new in box! i bought this years ago at Weird Stuff Warehouse when they were still around. i have no idea why, but i'm glad i did.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:03 JST Tube❄️Time

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     it's going to need a little work but WHAT is that blob of duct tape

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:03 JST Tube❄️Time

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     looks like a coin cell mod.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 08:06:04 JST Tube❄️Time

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     *earlier* what i have here is a Sun SPARCstation 1+.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:13:09 JST Tube❄️Time

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     uh oh, RAM parity error. i'm hoping U676 isn't seated all the way and that it is an easy fix.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:13:09 JST Tube❄️Time

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     that did the trick. the SIMM sockets were very stuck. welcome to S O L A R I S!

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:13:10 JST Tube❄️Time

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     forgot to add that i needed to do a "set-defaults" and a "setenv diag-switch? false"

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:13:11 JST Tube❄️Time

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     wrote a little FORTH program to update the contents of the IDPROM, and it looks like it has a valid host id now.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:13:12 JST Tube❄️Time

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     i've also installed a ZuluSCSI. this neat little board is a lot cheaper than a SCSI2SD. i'm going to try and install Solaris using a CDROM ISO file. CD6_512.iso is placed on the SD card. it'll be ID 6, 512 bytes per sector.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:13:12 JST Tube❄️Time

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     well, it tries to boot from the CDROM but suffers a BAD TRAP. not sure why, maybe i need to update the IDPROM contents.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:13:12 JST Tube❄️Time

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     yeah i am guessing the machine type in the IDPROM is invalid so the installer runs the wrong code.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:13:13 JST Tube❄️Time

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     well it found the keyboard!

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:13:13 JST Tube❄️Time

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     four months later :blobsweats: i made the Video Snake Oil board that can adapt 13W3 (any type!) to VGA. you just wire up the little pads to whatever your machine needs.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:18:03 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @tubetime Reminds me that I had a (monitor) 13W3 - VGA (computer) cable with my Sun CRT monitor in like pre-2009.
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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:21:53 JST Tube❄️Time

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     spoke too soon. another parity error, this time at U677. why there? because that's where i moved the module that was at U676. think i will just pull that bank of RAM for now.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:22:46 JST Tube❄️Time

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     it seems to run with 12MB RAM. no more parity errors this time. but now the installer hates my SCSI drive (a ZuluSCSI).

     filesystem creation failed for / 🤔

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 12:22:46 JST Tube❄️Time

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     i bet it is this issue. basically the ZuluSCSI returns values for disk geometry that somehow confuses the Solaris partition tool. one solution is to use a real SCSI hard drive and then dd it over to the ZuluSCSI once the install is completed.

     https://github.com/ZuluSCSI/ZuluSCSI-firmware/discussions/122#discussioncomment-4418076

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 20:59:59 JST Tube❄️Time

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     SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"

     sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 21:00:00 JST Tube❄️Time

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     omfg they swizzled it 🤦♂️

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 21:00:01 JST Tube❄️Time

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     anyway. trying an older Solaris installer and it is really surprised at the date -- could it really be 10,405 days after 1995?

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 21:00:02 JST Tube❄️Time

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     so i tried placing a drive image at SCSI ID 3 and *it boots as SD(0,0,0)vmunix* wtaf lol. seems like Sun cheated and swizzled some SCSI IDs around.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 21:00:03 JST Tube❄️Time

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     yay it works now! i tried SCSI ID 1.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 21:00:04 JST Tube❄️Time

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     I imaged the drive using the ZuluSCSI initiator mode, but even with the ZuluSCSI the firmware refuses to boot from SCSI ID0. weird.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 21:00:05 JST Tube❄️Time

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     well, I broke down and put in a spinning rust disk. the installer is much happier now and is copying files.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 21:00:05 JST Tube❄️Time

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     spinning rust refuses to boot when the SCSI ID is set to 0. I can set it to 1 and it will boot partway but the fstab is configured for 0 so it won't work.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 21:00:06 JST Tube❄️Time

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     zululog.txt has the smoking gun:

     [996859ms] WARNING: Host used command 0x1A which is affected by drive geometry. Current settings are 63 sectors x 255 heads = 16065 but image size of 2097152 sectors is not divisible. This can cause error messages in diagnostics tools.

     i think the solution here is to resize the disk image file so it is divisible by 63*255*512.

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     Tube❄️Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 21:00:06 JST Tube❄️Time

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     that wasn't the solution lol :blobsweats: there's no more zululog.txt error but the superblock isn't getting written correctly. 6D B6 DB 6D is the test pattern written by the format command. could be somehow corrupting it during the write?

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     James Henstridge (jamesh@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 23:13:49 JST James Henstridge

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     @tubetime This is probably the code triggering the warning:

     https://github.com/csrg/original-bsd/blob/master/sys/sparc/sparc/clock.c#L403-L408

     It seems to be checking for dates too far in the past (before 1975, by the look) rather than too far in the future. I wonder if it is reading a zeroed sector on the disk where a unix timestamp would be in a running system?

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     Jan Rychter (jrychter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 23:15:50 JST Jan Rychter

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     @tubetime That font brings back memories. I can still viscerally feel the slowness!

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