>From: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle)
>Message-Id: <9610181924.AA28375@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
>To: port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG
>Subject: UDB - never mind  :-)
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>[N.B.  You can ignore my previous post regarding the two UDB systems auctioned]
>
>Well, 3 stinkpots raised the lowest bid that could win the diskless/RAM-less
>UDB from $365 to $435 right as the auction closed, so I decided to bow out.
>(Well, this time, anyway  (-: )  Not because it wasn't a good deal; but
>because it was more than I wanted to spend on this sort of thing on short
>notice (and yes, I did notice in the port-alpha archives that these things were
>retailing for US $1590 and then still being sold at $800 including keyboard
>fairly recently ... )
>
>But just in case Starship Computer Guys coughs up any more of these, some
>direct pointed questions:
>
>(1) Right now my hoary old SPARCstation 1 clone here has a nice Sony GDM 20D10
>    monitor on it (bog-standard Sun 20" Sony with the little remote control
>    unit tucked under the middle, and the built-in 13W3 cable/connector).
>    Is there a prayer in hell that this could be re-used?  Or does one have to
>    buy a bog-standard PC variety Multisync monitor to use with the TGA fb?

A GDM20 ought to work, but it's a feature that a Multisync monitor
from the low end to the high end works on the UDB>

>
>(2) I have two 1.2 Gb Quantum ProDrive PD1225S 3.5" disks.  Can I use these,
>    either internally (i.e., put one inside) or both externally? 

Outside only. Make sure you get the version of the UDB that has the
1 and a half PCI slot (single PCI slot on mother board, fit a NCR8XXX
boardlet into that, it's got another PCI slot perpendicular lined
up for shooting another short PCI card out the back of the box)

>What little
>    familiarity I have with the Alpha port keeps mentioning "RZ25 disk images".
>
>    Do I have to scrounge up an RZ25 from someplace, no matter what?  And "dd"
>    the disk image to it, perhaps while attached to a computer at work, and
>    then install it in the UDB/Multia long enough to get it up and running
>    and transferred over to the existing 1.2 Gb disks?

Here's the scoop: an rz25 is ~400MB or so. DD the rz25 image onto any
disk bigger than this. After you've booted, do surgery via disklabel
to add further partitions.

>
>(3) If you don't have the "special breakout cable" for the dual-function DB25
>    RS-232 port, will it still work with a "regular" cable?  Sun has some
>    similar systems (i.e. that also take a breakout cable into 2 DB25's), but
>    one can use a normal straight-through cable to use the single "A" port.

That I don't know about. I think so.
>
>(4) Commodity 72-pin 70 ns RAM, right?

I believe so. But it has to be in pairs.

>
>Replies to me please ...
>
>	- Greg


I've been pretty happy with the UDB I bought. I switch between
WinNT, NetBSD and Alpha/Linux. I still wanna get the use of the
PCMCIA slots in back tho...