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GripNews🌘 SPARC 設備點燃小火苗：解鎖 Sun SparcStation 1+ 的啟動謎團 ➤ 一場跨越七年的復古電腦啟動除錯戰記 ✤ <a href="https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/08/05/sparcstation-scsi-termination-fix-magic-smoke.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/08/05/sparcstation-scsi-termination-fix-magic-smoke.html</a> 作者分享了他修復一臺老舊 Sun SparcStation 1+ 電腦的曲折歷程。從最初遇到「Illegal Instruction」錯誤，到嘗試移除硬碟、更換 SCSI ID，再到遭遇軟碟機的種種問題，最終透過細緻的觀察和實驗，逐步釐清了硬體和軟體層面的故障原因，並對 SCSI 總線的特殊配置有了更深入的瞭解。 + 這位作者的毅力令人敬佩！從「Illegal Instruction」到「bad magic number」，一路的排除過程太真實了，讓人感同身受。 + SCSI ID 的重導向真是令人費解，Sun 的工程師當時到底在想什麼？不過，這也正是老電腦的魅力所在吧！ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E9%9B%BB%E8%85%A6%E4%BF%AE%E5%BE%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#電腦修復</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E5%BE%A9%E5%8F%A4%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#復古科技</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCSI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPARC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sun</a> Microsystems <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E8%BB%9F%E7%A2%9F%E6%A9%9F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#軟碟機</a>

Andrew Jones (hpcnotes)A question for chip gurus to explain (ie argue 😁) …Purely in architectural terms (ie ignore current success / adoption etc) - which is/was the best architecture: <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/x86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#x86</a> vs <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/ARM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ARM</a> vs <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/RISCV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RISCV</a> vs <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/MIPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MIPS</a> vs <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPARC</a> vs <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/IA64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IA64</a> vs Alpha - and why? What pros/cons of each make the choice?

Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sun</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparc</a>Finally was able to acquire Sun FEH in very good condition.

Leaded SolderNew blog post! I have finally gotten my '90 SparcStation 1+ workstation to do something useful, but a terrible price was asked in the process. Don't worry, the magic smoke came out of a *new* thing. <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/retrounix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrounix</a> <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sun</a> <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparc</a> <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/mame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mame</a> <a href="https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/08/05/sparcstation-scsi-termination-fix-magic-smoke.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/08/05/sparcstation-scsi-termination-fix-magic-smoke.html</a>

oneguynickI am this old... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#solaris</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/floppy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#floppy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#windows</a>

Wolfgang StiefBycatch on my recent tour by car throughout Bavaria: a Sun Ultra 1 workstation. It's probably in a non repairable state, but anyway very eye candy just sitting in the shelf. The Ultra 1 was the very first Sun workstation with a 64-bit SPARC processor (UltraSPARC, sun4u Architecture), market introduction November 1995. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sun</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ultra1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ultra1</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://chaosfem.tw/@freya" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@freya</a> shit like this is why I <a href="https://github.com/os-1337/pkgs?tab=readme-ov-file#tldr-to-increase-portability-all-packages-are-statically-linked-with-their-dependencies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">mandate</a> that all <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Software</a> Packages for <a href="https://infosec.space/@OS1337" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@OS1337</a> <a href="https://github.com/OS-1337/pkgs/blob/main/docs/BUILDING.md#dependencies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">be statically compiled</a>, because I'm not gonna bother dealing with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/dependencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dependencies</a> and if a program can't be shipped as a <code>tarball</code> to unpack & drop in then maybe it shouldn't exist on <code>OS/1337</code>…<ul><li>I have <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/rsync" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rsync</a> on the <a href="https://github.com/OS-1337/pkgs/blob/b2cc0d7db6453a68b1a16921b23ddd705350bc07/docs/WISHLIST.tsv#L23" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wshlist</a> alongside <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPARC</a> <a href="https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/87c52c44ad9cde6f04ef3aad1aa6ba6622c6dcdd/docu/ideas/architectures.tsv#L48" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">support</a>… </li></ul><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OS1337" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OS1337</a>

petersuberWhile the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin has not revoked or weakened the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSTP</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a>, and the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NIH</a> even accelerated its effective date, the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republican</a> led House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science is trying to defund its implementation. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPARC</a> just released an open letter asking the committee to change course. <a href="https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Against-Section-550-in-House-CJS-FY-26-.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Against-Section-550-in-House-CJS-FY-26-.pdf</a>"I am writing to respectfully urge you to strike Section 550 from the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, which would prohibit funding to implement the Office of Science and Technology Policy's August 25, 2022, memorandum ensuring free, immediate access to federally funded research…Rather than blocking <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> requirements, we should focus on addressing legitimate concerns about cost structures - including publication expenses - to ensure that access to publicly funded research is available while protecting taxpayers from unreasonable costs." <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DefendResearch</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Funding</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TrumpVResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpVResearch</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a>

𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚜Resurrecting a Sun SPARC station for day to day computing. <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/oldcomputerchallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oldcomputerchallenge</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparc</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#netbsd</a> <a href="https://retrobsd.ddns.net/nvdh7j.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://retrobsd.ddns.net/nvdh7j.htm</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/2209449/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2209449/</a> Signs 200MW Offtake Agreement with Commonwealth Fusion Systems • Carbon Credits <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ARC</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CarbonFreeEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarbonFreeEnergy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CFS</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CleanEnergy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CommonwealthFusionSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommonwealthFusionSystems</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataCenter</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Energy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/fusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fusion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPARC</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USNuclear</a>

𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚜HEADS-UP: Openindiana/Hipster 2025.06 for SPARC <a href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/sparc/T59731d5c98542552" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/sparc/T59731d5c98542552</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#illumos</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparc</a>

petersuber<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPARC</a> has released its own new info on the new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NIH</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> policy. <a href="https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Update-to-NIH-PA-Policy-Deadline.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Update-to-NIH-PA-Policy-Deadline.pdf</a>Excerpt:<blockquote> ● The Policy requires immediate public access to articles -- <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/embargoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#embargoes</a> are no longer allowed. ● NIH reiterates authors do not have to pay a fee to comply with the Policy. ● The Policy applies to manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. This means the Policy will apply to existing grants if an article is accepted on or after that date. ● The Policy requires that final peer-reviewed manuscripts be submitted to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PubMedCentral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PubMedCentral</a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PMC</a>) upon acceptance to be made publicly available immediately upon publication. ● The Policy requires that grantees explicitly grant the NIH the right to make the manuscript available in PMC without an embargo. ● The Policy does not explicitly grant full reuse rights of the manuscript to the public. </blockquote> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Embargoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Embargoes</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenOA</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Medicine</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSTP</a>

Freya (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩OK, it's finally finally up. currently <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/gcc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gcc</a> , <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/coreutils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coreutils</a> , plus some support libraries, as a proof of concept. For those who don't know, FractalKit is an in-progress collection of modern packages built for <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Solaris</a> 10 <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPARC</a>, and they may work on <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Solaris</a> 11 also. They can be downloaded at <a href="https://highenergymagic.net/fractalkit/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://highenergymagic.net/fractalkit/</a> - please let us know if there are any bugs, issues, what have you.CC: <a href="https://techhub.social/@SolarisDiaspora" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@SolarisDiaspora</a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/sunmicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunmicrosystems</a>

Freya (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩Is there anyone in <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> or <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/NZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NZ</a>, or who would be willing to ship to NZ, who could donate a <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPARC</a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Solaris</a> (sun4u/sun4v) machine to the building effort for FractalKit? We're running up against some limits and some really bad time sinks, doing all of this on a 650MHz <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/UltraSPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UltraSPARC</a> IIe is.... really really painful. We know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a machine they could donate to this we would be immensely thankful. This porting effort is really important to us but it's not going to be actually useful if a single library takes a day to compile. If you can't help, then please boost? <a href="https://techhub.social/@SolarisDiaspora" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@SolarisDiaspora</a>

Joost van Baal-Ilić"Subject: Firefox on sparc64 available again"thank you very much John Paul Adrian Glaubitz . See <a href="https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/52eeda379a027ab007474ec220845936b30d67b8.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/52eeda379a027ab007474ec220845936b30d67b8.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de</a>Awesome work!<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#debian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#firefox</a>

niaThis is a collection of solutions to OpenFirmware and hardware issues for which I had difficulty finding answers as a first-time user of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sun</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparc</a> hardware.<a href="https://netbsd.org/~nia/sun-blade-150.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://netbsd.org/~nia/sun-blade-150.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#netbsd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#solaris</a>

George Macgregor<a href="https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gedankenstuecke</a> Excellent blog post, Bastian -- thank you very much for drawing it to my attention. "Vorauseilender Gehorsam" -- what a useful concept!You used the words 'disheartening', 'bleak', 'infuriating' about <a href="https://mastodon.social/@sparc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@sparc</a>. These chime with me too. 'Disappointing' would be another.At least we have <a href="https://mastodon.social/@SPARC_Europe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@SPARC_Europe</a> which remains committed to DEI, as well as committed to defending openness in the "face of political and technological developments". <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPARC</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenScience</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenResearch</a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DEI</a>

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