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" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
