[H-GEN] Sparc Crashes

[Bruce Campbell]

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Frank Brand wrote:

> Has anybody using the Sparc IPC's ever suffered a total crash with the
> machine not working? I suspect this might be caused by the CMOS battery
> dying. It is unlikely that just replacing the battery will fix the
> problem.

Its a little chip which holds the config details which does the dying.
You can contact Sun Ripened Kernels to get a new chip, or punch in the
details each time the dead(?) machine is powered on.

> I believe that it is necessary to :-
> 
> 1. Know the config details first.

If you have a Sun machine, and haven't retrieved these details, its a
really, really good idea.  Stop+A and then 'n'ew command mode will put you
in a place where you can 'printenv' (that works on the ELCs)

> Can somebody confirm this procedure and the command for determining the
> configuration before the thing falls over. I think the command is "icom"
> or "ipcom" or something akin to this.

Not sure about the specifics on the IPCs, but reading through
aus.computers.sun would be a good bet.  It has come up on Humbug before
though.

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Bruce.