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Page 1: ...Part Number 800 1528 05 Revision A of 10 October 1986 Hard vare Installation Manual for tIle Sun 3 260 Vorkstation Sun lVlicrosystems Inc 2550 Garcia Avenue lountain View California 94043 415 960 1300...

Page 2: ...ea is likely to cause interference in which case the user at his own expense will be required to take whatever measures may be required to correct the interference VARNING There is a Lithium Battery B...

Page 3: ...apes etc 8 Chapter 2 Basic Component Set up 11 2 1 Connecting the Keyboard Mouse Ethernet and Video 11 Keyboard and Mouse Connections 13 Ethernet Cable Connection and Jumper Setting _ 14 Connecting th...

Page 4: ...onitor 34 Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration and Options 39 3 1 Basic Sun 3 260 40 3 2 Standard Configuration 41 Sun 3 260 CPU Board 41 3 3 Options for the Sun 3 260t 41 ALM Interface Board 42 Graphics...

Page 5: ...3 1 I O Connectors on the CPU Card 41 Table 3 2 System 1emory Basic and Optional Configurations 42 Table 4 1 Pinout of Keyboard Mouse DB IS Connector 47 Table 4 2 Pinout of Serial Ports A and B 48 Ta...

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Page 7: ...Jumper Connection 17 Figure 2 5 Color and Sync Connection Example 20 Figure 2 6 Color Output and Grayscale Connection Example 21 Figure 2 7 Color Output and Grayscale Connection Example 22 Figure 2 8...

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Page 9: ...and Ethernet Information on connecting a modem printer or terminal to the serial ports is included Basic procedures for connecting the unit to an existing Ether net or setting up a new one are offere...

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Page 11: ...tting up the Sun 3 260 3 1 1 Safety Precautions 3 1 2 Unpacking Instructions for the Sun 3 260 3 1 3 Tools Needed 3 1 4 Unpacking me Pedestal 4 1 5 Unpacking the Keyboard and Grayscale or Monochrome M...

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Page 13: ...ce personnel The basic components of the Sun 3 260 are shipped in 3 separate cartons o the largest contains thc pedcstal stabilizing wings and external cables o the smallest or base box contains this...

Page 14: ...iangular box containing the pedestal s stabilizing wings a Tld the square box containing the pedestal s external cables 6 Lift up and away on the left side of the pedestal s shipping carton 7 Tilt the...

Page 15: ...de down to attach the stabilization wings 1 Get t e triangular box containing the stabilization wings and place it beside the pedestal Inside the box you should find the wings and four Phillips screws...

Page 16: ...hing the Pedestal Stabilization Villgs Save the shipping carton and packing material for future use in case the product must be reshi yed any products 3h ipped back to SU l must be epacked in their or...

Page 17: ...p of the container off of the monitor Remove the right and left foam pads attached to the monitor Pull the protective bag do n to the base of the unit to expose the monitor Vith one person standing on...

Page 18: ...n up and off of the color monitor 6 Remove the side foam pieces and the protective plastic bag 7 Remove the foam piece between the monitor and its base The monitor is now ready for placement in the wo...

Page 19: ...Connecting a Video Monitor to the Sun 3 260 18 2 3 Connecting Grayscale Monitors to the Sun 3 260 20 2 4 Powering Up the Sun 3 260 23 2 5 Power On Self Test Procedures 24 2 5 EEPROM Options 23 2 7 As...

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Page 21: ...witch on the front of the pedestal is OFF side with the 0 is pushed in and a The AC power cord is unplugged from the rear of the pedestal The Sun 3 260 comes with its boards already installed in the p...

Page 22: ...diagnostic LEDs among these connectors Figure 2 1 Sun 3 260 Connectors on the rear edge ofthe CPU Board SERIAL PORTA SERIAL PORTB I EmERNErI c RESET DIAGNOSTIC SWITCH NORM DIAG KEYBOARD MOUSE LED0 m...

Page 23: ...Find your keyboard cable and plug it in now to the KEYBOARD con nector on the rear edge then tighten the screwlocks 2 Find the mouse and its cable The mouse is a little rectangular box with three long...

Page 24: ...Sun no level adjustment is necessary Ifyou are using a Levell Ethernet transceiver you will need to add a jumper across the pin 5 6 position and leave the other jumpers in place Perform the ollowing...

Page 25: ...ed to a common earth ground such as the metal screws on an AC receptacle cover to discharge any static electricity present in your bo y 1 Make sure that the workstation is not connected to a power sou...

Page 26: ...o 1 I lL I I 1 q 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 o 0 5 Now gently slide the board out until you can see the 8 pin level select jumper Ll tat is located approximately 1 inch 2 5 cm behind the Etherne...

Page 27: ...el 1 capacitive coupled type tran sceiver add a jumper across position 5 but do not remove either of the other jumpers 7 Replace the board by pushing it back into the slot Make sure the board is seate...

Page 28: ...60HlvI 1600x1280 pixel display workstation you have a monochrome black and white monitor You will connect the monochrome monitor to the video connector on the CPU board Find the monochrome monitor s v...

Page 29: ...the other end of this cable into the similar connector marked BLUE on the rear of the color monitor 4 Plug the remaining cable into the female BNC connector marked sync composite sync signals on the e...

Page 30: ...1e cable connection for eitl1er type of monitor is made from the rear edge of the Sun 3 color board to the back of the grayscale monitor reference the following two fig res The grayscale video cable f...

Page 31: ...ewedjrom rear 8 9 CUlUl UUUI d backpanel Attach the second type of grayscale video cable by doing the following 1 Plug one of the BNC connectors labeled SYNC to the BNC connector marked SYNC on the re...

Page 32: ...AC source wall receptacle 3 Tum the monitor s power switch to the ON position The monitor will slowly come on You should also notice a crackling sound of static if the screen does not come on within...

Page 33: ...onitor program The monitor program is indicated by a prompt on the screen During this time the memory boardJs will continue to preserve their con tents by refreshing themselves Pressing the RESET on t...

Page 34: ...ar to the following will come onto your screen t Self 7esc Passed Sun Workstatic Medel Sun 3 2CO e ies Sun 3 Keyboard ROM Rev __ 1B emory installed Serial Ether ec address Testing Megabytes of Memory...

Page 35: ...ding the LEDs from top to bottom when the CPU board is in its slot If at some point in the above sequence the LEDs freeze keep the same pattern for more than 2 minutes or the sequence restarts from th...

Page 36: ...checks interrupt capabilities CPU Board 0 0 0 0 0 0 Test OxOA performs TOO clock interrupt test I CPU Board 0 0 0 0 0 Test O OB checking MMU protection and status CPU Board MMU 0 0 0 0 0 0 Test OxOC...

Page 37: ...exact test being undertaken during self test IfLED 7 is not lit then the tests are proceeding without error if LED 7 lights up then LEDs 0 4 will freeze indicating which test failed Refer to the previ...

Page 38: ...ntioned the Sun 3 260 computer has an electrically erasable programmable read only memory EEPROM chip that can be accessed through the boot PROM monitor program in order to change system configuration...

Page 39: ...ion part number 800 1303 XX section ZS 4S which discusses the Zilog serial interface Signals carried on the SERIAL PORT A and SERIAL PORT B connectors are listed in the appendix Thefollowing sections...

Page 40: ...Refer also to System Administration or the Sun Workstation pan number 800 1323 XX and Installing UNIX on the Sun Vorkstation part number 300 1521 XX which derail connecting to a tenninal The seriai po...

Page 41: ...able Ethernet Continues or TerminatP t Io rl 2 1 Key Description Continuing Cable or Termina tor 2 Female N connector to tran sceiver or vampire tap cable channel 3 Male N connector to tran sceiver or...

Page 42: ...use Ethernet malfunction 1 Screw the 50 ohm coaxial cable into one of the transceiver N connectors an N connector is a round screw on connector If you are using a coaxial active known as a vampire tap...

Page 43: ...for proper Ethernet implementation Ethernet Cabling Limitations MAXIMUM contiguous length ofcoaxial cable segments Distance benveen transceivers YfAXIJ1Ul rflength ojtransceiver cable 500 0 meters I I...

Page 44: ...y Whenever his lack of purity can not be corrected by changing the position of the system you should try degauss ing These magnetic fields can be neutralized by using both the external degaussing coil...

Page 45: ...ofthe monitor need to be degaussed 4 Hold the coil perpendicular to the monitor at least six feet away and plug the coil in 5 Press the coil switch and turn the coil parallel to the monitor screen br...

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Page 47: ...3 Hardware Configuration and Options Hardware Configuration and Options 39 3 1 Basic Sun 3 260 40 3 2 Standard Configuration 41 3 3 Options for the Sun 3 260t 41...

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Page 49: ...rs protrude from either side of the strip If a board ITH springfingers is installed next to a board VITHOUT spring fingers the insulator shield on the outside of the fingers MUST be present to prevent...

Page 50: ...r strip shieJd s and replace if damaged Call 800 USA 4SLTN with any questions or for information on how to obtain additional insulator strips or shields Some of the devices on the 5un 3 260 boards are...

Page 51: ...nectors attach the CPU board to the backplane inside the Sun 3 260 pedestal and five muiti pin I O con nectors two switches and a bank of eight small LEDs are at the opposite rear edge end of the boar...

Page 52: ...Ve have discussed only a few of the large number of options available for the 3 260 The following page lists some often ordered optional beards but for a complete lis4 please contact your Sun sales re...

Page 53: ...and Options 43 The VME to lvlultibus Adapter Board makes it possible to use Multibus and non standard VMEbus boards mechanically and electrically in Sun 3 VMEbus systems Multibus is a trademark of the...

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Page 55: ...CPU Board Connector Pinouts and Serial Port Signals CPU Board Connector Pinouts and Serial Port Signals 47 4 1 Pinout of Connectors at Rear of Workstation 47 4 2 Description of Serial Port Signals 48...

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Page 57: ...n the pages that follow Cl Keyboard louse Connector Cl Serial Port s Cl Ethernet Connector Cl Video Connector Pins that are net connected to anything are not listed The following tables represent pin...

Page 58: ...RXD 6 GND 13 12V Table 4 4 Pinout 01Video Connector Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 VIDEO 6 VIDEO 3 HSYNC 7 GND 4 VSYNC 8 GND 9 GND 4 2 Description of Serial Port Signals This subsection briefly describes the...

Page 59: ...RXD Receive Data input The actual data received from the data communications equipment 4 RTS Request to Send output Signal sent to the d3ta communica tions equipment asking if it is ready to start acc...

Page 60: ...ms etc 17 DD Receive Clock from DCE input Receive clock from the modem This signal is usually not used for asynchronous devices most termi nals primers modems etc 20 DTR Data Terminal Ready output Ind...

Page 61: ...keyboard and mO LOr 7 R removing the CPU board 15 Reset switch 22 K keyboard and monitor unpacking and setup 7 G graphics buffer board 42 gr3phics proces ior beard 42 Grayscale Monitor How to Connect...

Page 62: ...options 39 thru 43 serial port signals 48 tlvu 50 setup 3 thru 8 unpacking 3 thru 8 unpacking keyboard and monitor 7 unpacking pedestal 4 Sun 3 260 Expansion board memory 41 T transceiver types 14 U...

Page 63: ...vision History Revision Date Comments 01 16 June 1986 a Review of this Installation Manual 50 02 15 July 1986 pReview of this Installation Manual A OS 10 October 1986 Release of this Installation Manu...

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Page 65: ...is end we solicit your comments on the 3 260 Hardware Installation Manual Ve would appreciate your telling us about errors in the content of the manual and about any material that you feel should be t...

Page 66: ...e present but is not 1s there material found in other manuals that would be more convenient if it were in this manual Did you find the organization of this guide useful If not how would you rear range...

Page 67: ...Ut Part Number 813 2018 05 Revision A of 10 October 1986 Sun 501 1102 Memory Board Configuration Proced res Sun Microsystems Inc 2550 Garcia Avenue Mountain View California 94043 415 960 1300...

Page 68: ...opyright 1986 by Sun Microsystems Inc This publication is protected by Federal Copyright Law with all rights reseIVed No part of this publica tion may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system transl...

Page 69: ...Backplane Configuration Procedures Sun PN 813 2004 for tables that define memory board numbering and slot assignment When more than one memory board is installed in a system each board must have uniq...

Page 70: ...Install ONLY ONE jumper in a different position for each board as shown below To remove the jumper use needle nosed pliers that have a fine point Address Select Jumper Block o 0 3 IN for 4th Memory B...

Page 71: ...n Date Comments Review Draft 15 July 1986 First Draft of this Configuration Pro cedure 02 50 21 July 1986 Engineering release of this Configuration Procedure 05 A 10 October 1986 Production release of...

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