SUMMARY: Patch for SparcStation2 watchdog reset

From: Sanjay_Waghray@C.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Date: Mon Oct 07 1991 - 12:17:07 CDT


Summary:

The Sparc2 watchdog reset patch (and many others) are available
on ftp.cs.toronto.edu in the directory /sun-patches.

Thanks to a quick response from Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>.

I installed the patch and don't see the problem anymore.

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I posted this yesterday:

>We have a Sparc2 running 4.1.1 that is having the watchdog
>reset problem; the exact sequence seems to be:

>Window underflow
>Watchdog reset
>> (boot prompt)

>>From perusing the various ftp archives the following
>patch seems to be available from Sun:

>100232-01 SunOS 4.1.1: Sparcstation 2 crashes or watchdog resets

>If someone out there has this patch available for anon ftp
>or can point me someplace that does I would be eternally
>grateful. I did try uunet.uu.net and princeton.edu and they both
>don't have this patch.

Here's Ed's reply:

toronto has this patch, see
        ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/sun-patches/

ftp.cs.toronto.edu
total 19285
-rw-r--r-- 1 7 17209 Sep 24 17:09 PATCHINDEX
[...]
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 37059 May 21 20:45 100232-01.tar.Z
[...]
found toronto-sun-patches ok
ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/sun-patches/

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Sanjay Waghray School of Computer Science
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                                Pittsburgh, PA
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