Sun IPC ... a bit more success

I managed to play a bit more with my Sun IPC this evening and despite the fact that the machine has a bad memory chip in the first bank, I managed to learn enough about the machine to determine that the hard drive has Sun OS Release 4.1.4 on it.

I would have liked to continue playing with the box, but it was getting pretty close to midnight and each time I reset the box it cycles through testing the audio device, which gives a nice loud beeeep!

Here's a bit of a transcript of what I managed to discover:

PROM Checksum test
Context Reg Test
Segment Map Test
Sizing Memory
Page Map Test
Page Map Test
Memory Test
Probing Memory Bank #: 1 2 3 4 5
Initializing Auxiliary Register
Reset/Initialize Keyboard
not nvramrc
Setting up Console Parameters
SPARCstation IPC, No keyboard.
ROM Rev. 1.6, 36 MB memory installed, Serial #16777215.
Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: ffffffff.


The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.
Testing
Testing audio chip; listen for a beep
Synchronous Error Reg Test
Synchronous Virtual Address Reg Test
Asynchronous Error Reg Test
Asynchronous Virtual Address Reg Test
System Enable Reg Test
FPU Test
Memory Test

Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode)
>n
Type help for more information
ok boot sd(,0,3)

Type 'go' to resume
ok boot sd(,0,3)
Probing Memory Bank #: 1 2 3 4 5
Booting from: sd(0,0,3)
root on sd0d fstype 4.2
Boot: vmunix
Size: 1343488+218408+131992 bytes
Invalid format type in NVRAM
Machine type set to Sun-4/60
SunOS Release 4.1.4 (SUN414) #1: Tue Aug 8 13:22:14 EDT 1995
Copyright (c) 1983-1993, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
mem = 36864K (0x2400000)
avail mem = 34504704
Invalid format code in NVRAM
cpu = Sun 4/40
zs0 at obio 0xf1000000 pri 12
zs1 at obio 0xf0000000 pri 12
fd0 at obio 0xf7200000 pri 11
audio0 at obio 0xf7201000 pri 13
sbus0 at SBus slot 0 0x0
dma0 at SBus slot 0 0x400000
esp0 at SBus slot 0 0x800000 pri 3
sd0 at esp0 target 3 lun 0
sd0:
le0 at SBus slot 0 0xc00000 pri 5
bwtwo0 at SBus slot 3 0x0 pri 7
Cannot open 'sd0d'
root device (fd%d[a-h] sd%d[a-h] ):

I think it's a perfectly cool box!