[plug] Serial ports on Sparc IPC

[McMeikan, Andrew]

As I am have kept Solaris on my sparc2 (one does need to keep variety in
their house) I can't help much on the serial stuff,  with the HDD if you
don't mind full height there are some second hand one at world wide for
sale.

	cya,	Andrew...
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	navarre at omen.net.au [SMTP:navarre at omen.net.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 28, 2000 5:27 PM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	[plug] Serial ports on Sparc IPC
> 
> Hello All
> 
> I wish to connect a serial device to an aging Sun Sparc IPC.
> My question is, in the land of Debian for Sparc what is the
> device name for the two serial ports.
	<snip>
> sputnik: /smb/scorpio/InetPub/wwwroot/asp $ setserial /dev/tty1
> Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument
> 
> As I presume the mouse and keyboard are using the other serial 
> 8530 chip I do not want to simply try writing data willy-nilly
> to the tty devices.
> 
> As an aside, I am seeking a scsi hdd for the same machine, 
> somthing in the order of 400 Meg or better. I am willing
> to pay a small amount.
> 
> Regards Navarre <navarre at omen.net.au>