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 <loupicci...@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" <jimkli...@cos.ru> > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss@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 > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- *raymond.but...@gmail.com <raymond.but...@gmail.com>* _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
