Re: Xenix. Sun Rem 2 meg card.

On Jan 8, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Dr. Helmut Post wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> happy new year to the LisaList
> and special greetings to Phil!
>
>
>>
>> I have recently purchased (Xmas present to myself) one of John
>> Woodall's X-Profile boards, as my original drives are all failing. I
>> was going to try to build an IDEfile (and I may still do) but I worry
>> my skills were not up to par.
>> I am however really enjoying the fact that I can easily swap out the
>> compact flash card and have the lisa boot into a different system
>> within minitues.
>
>
> I have the same X-Profile and the IDEfile as well.
> All hard disks are working excellent.
> I have found out that a Maxtor Diamond 9 series IDE hard disk (60GB
> in my
> case) works best with my X/Profile. All others need hoours to
> format 2 GB
> under MacWorks II+.
>
>> I now have flash cards with OS2, OS3.1, Pascal workshop and Basic
>> workshop. The only one I think I haven't tried yet is Xenix. I was
>> wondering if anyone knew where I could get a copy of Xenix for the
>> Lisa from?
>> Are there any more OS's that the Lisa can run that I am forgetting,
>> and where would I find these?
>
> Please ask me.
>>
>> I also wanted to thank Helmet who over the holidays helped me (via
>> email) fix and replace all the capacitors in my 1.8amp PSU. I was a
>> little tentative at first, but all went smoothly, and if I may say
>> so, I think I did a great job ;-)
>>
>
> No problem, Phil- I'm glad to help!
>
>> Another question for the list is regarding my 2 meg Sun Remarketing
>> memory card. Does anyone know what SIMs this card takes and where I
>> can get some from? The card has started giving me occasional errors
>> which is a little upsetting.
>
> I have the same card as you do.
> You should first do the following: Clean the PCB connectors with a
> rubber
> eraser for example- I use Sidol for cleaning the contacts- I don't
> know if
> it's available in USA under the same name- it is simply a metal
> cleaner to
> clean silver spoons, brass bracelets etc....
> it removes any oxidation form the metal surface without doing any
> harm.
>
>
> In the next step you should remove all your SIMM's and reseat them
> again in
> the sockets.
> You can't use standard 32 PIN Macintosh SIMM's, use IBM PC SIMM's
> instead -
> the IBM uses a 9th RAM chip for parity, the Mac doesn't.
> One exeption: special Macintosh IIci for government use needed the
> same
> parity SIMM's as the IBM did.
> 120 ns or higher speeds are ok for the Lisa- even 150 ns should
> work fine.
> But I don't think that the SIMM's have a malfunction- it seems to be a
> contact problem.
>
> I hope this helps you further...
>
> Helmut
>
>
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