Cycle Computer Corporation Sun clone board...

[Jules Richardson]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 00:13 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 11:17 -0300, Andrew Reynolds wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:49:12PM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > > They also use the Sun Y serial cable that splits one DB-25 into
> > > A/B serial ports, as well as an external dongle for audio. The other DB-25 is
> > > a parallel port. 
> > 
> > Heh, so I just discovered. The parallel port lines up with what's
> > labelled as Serial port A on the back of the case :-(
> > 
> > Luckily I don't think I've destroyed any serial hardware on the PC I was
> > using as a terminal! I think it's stuck trying to do a network boot at
> 
> I would be suprised if you had. Serial ports don't normally mind TTL 
> levels applied to them. But the TTL parallel port on the Sparc board 
> probablyt didn't like RS232 levels. How much damage has been done remains 
> to be seen I gures.

Well it certainly all seems happy enough; plus what the chap thought was
the sound of a very ill hard disk has turned out to be a minature fan
over one of the ICs, so there's a chance data might still be intact on
the drive (fingers crossed he'd turned the thing on, heard the noise,
and diagnosed it as a dead disk and turned it off again without waiting
for it to try and boot :)

On the parallel port side of things, I suppose it might have toasted
something. No great loss there though. Grr to Cycle for not providing
labels to stick over the back of the case to warn that what's labelled
as a serial port actually isn't on their boards! (I suppose this is one
time where the PC standard of using male sockets for serial ports would
have made things obvious too)

cheers

Jules