Re: Sun E250, NVRAM edit? (Serial Speeds, no console, etc)

2020-07-21 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
In theory console can be set to anything but its usually 9600/8/n/1 as I’m sure you’ve tried. Progress last night. Pulled the NVRAM (STM M48Y59 or something) and threw it in the Needham EMP-100. Read contents, nothing that looked like any sort of config really. I noticed on the mainboard th

Re: Sun E250, NVRAM edit? (Serial Speeds, no console, etc)

2020-07-20 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
In theory console can be set to anything but its usually 9600/8/n/1 as I’m sure you’ve tried. Oh yea, I see the diags at that speed but everything else is noise. Memory is kind of hazy since it was 2008 era, but back then I had a Livingston Portmaster PM-25 hooked to all the colo hosts and I s

Re: Sun E250, NVRAM edit? (Serial Speeds, no console, etc)

2020-07-18 Thread silvercreekvalley via cctalk
Hi Ethan In theory console can be set to anything but its usually 9600/8/n/1 as I’m sure you’ve tried. On some suns unplugging the serial cable is the equivalent of sending a break, so might be worth a try? Suns do require full hardware signalling on the console connection so might be worth c

Sun E250, NVRAM edit? (Serial Speeds, no console, etc)

2020-07-13 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
Hello, I have an E250 Sun that belonged to a friend that passed away around 2008. It was colocated at a colocation office I had running in Virginia Beach. I pulled it out of storage, and would like to check if his public website is archived on it. Archive.org only has bits of it. Odds ar