Sun Microsystems Sun-3/260 Assembly instructions

Part Number 800-1528-05

Revision: A

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

·.

Credits and Trademarks

Sun

1\'Iicrosystems and

Sun

Workstation

are registered trademarks

Sun

Microsystems, Incorporated.

The

Sun

logo

is aregistered trademark

Sun

Microsystems, Inc.

Sun-3,

Sun-3/~x,

Deskside,

SunStation,

Sun'Vindows,

and

DVMA

are trademarks

Sun

11icrosys-

terns, Incorporated.

UNIX

is atrademark

Bell

Laboratori~s.

CAUTION

This equipment generates, uses, and

can

radiate radio frequency energy and

not installed

and

used in accordance

with the instructions manual,

may

cause interference to radio communications. It has been tested and found to

co.m-

ply

wit.~

the limits for aClass Acomputing device pursuant to SubpartJ

Purt

FCC

Rules, which are designed

to provide reasonable protection against such interference

when

operated in acommercial environment. Operation

this

equipment

in aresidential area is likely to cause interference

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

(BBCV2)

located

the

Sun-3/260

CPU

board;

Matsushita

Electric

Type

No.

BR232S.

This

battery

is not acustOIner

replaceable

part.

The

battery

will

marked

follows:

"'Varning

•

Replace

battery

with

~IATSUSHITA

ELECTRIC

PANASONIC

part

No.

BR2325

only.

Use

another

bat·

tery

may

present

risk

fire

explosion."

The

battery

may

explode

mistreated.

not

dispose

ofin

fire,

attempt

recharge,

disassemble

the

battery.

1986

by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

pan

this publica-

tion may be reproduced. stored

aretrieval system, translated, transcribed.

t:-ansmitted, in any

[cnn,

by any means manual, electric, electronic, electro-magnetic, mechanical, chemical, optical,

otherwise,

witllOut

p:ior

explicit written pennission from Sun !vIicrosystems.

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Contents

Preface ix

Chapter

1Unpacking and Setting 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 the

Pe~estal

Pedestal Stabilization Wings

1.5. Unpacking the Keyboard and (Grayscale

Monochrome)

Monitor 7

Unpacking the 19-inch Color Monitor 7

1.6. Unpacking the Mouse, Pad, Cables, Tapes, etc. 8

Cha

pter

2Basic Component Set-up

2.1. Connecting the Keyboard, Mouse, Ethernet, and Video

Keyboard and Mouse Connections

Ethernet Cable Connection and Jumper Setting

_.......................

Connecting the Ethernet TransceiverCable

;............

...".

...

2.2. Connecting aVideo Monitor to the Sun-3/260

LLE~

~.......

Connecting the Black and White Monitor

the

S~r,:3/26?<

:.:<.:.

Connecting aColor rvIonitor

;;

.•

·:

19·

2.3. Connecting Grayscale Monitors to the Sun-3/260

.'.

i.L~

;

::.

Diagnostic and UserReset Switches :

~._

<·:

2.4. Powering Up the Sun-3/260

~......

2.5. Power-On

Self

Test Procedures

:.;

;;...........

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Contents -Continued

The

~Iemory

Board LEDs 27

2.6. EEPROM Options 28

2.7. Asynchronous Serial Ports

_.........................................

Connecting aModem to the Sun-3/260 29

Connecting a

Tenninal

to the Sun-3/260 .29

Connecting aPrinter to the Sun-3/260 30

2.8. Connecting the Sun-3/260 to the Ethernet

2.9. Degaussing the Color

:tYlonitor

Chapter

3Hardware Configuration and Options 39

3.1. Basic Sun-3/260 40

3.2. Standard Configuration

Sun-3/260

CPU

Board

3.3. Options for the

Sun-3/260t

ALM Interface Board 42

Graphics Processor and Graphics BufferBoards 42

V~(2)-to-VME(3)

Adapter Board 42

Floating Point Accelerator Board 42

VME-to-Multibus* Adapter Board 43

Chapter4

CPU Board Connector Pinouts and

S~rial

Port

Signals 47

4.1. Pinout

Connectors at Rear

Workstation 47

4.2. Description

Serial

Port

Signals 48

-iv-

Tables

Table 2-1 Diagnostic

LEDs

Table

2-2

Memory

Board

LED

Interpretation 28

Table 2-3 Ethernet Cabling Limitations 33

Table

3-1

I/O

Connectors

the

CPU

Card

Table

3-2

System

~1emory

-Basic and Optional Configurations 42

Table

4-1

Pinout

Keyboard/Mouse

DB-IS

Connector

Table 4-2 Pinout

Serial Ports Aand B48

Table

4-3

Pinout

Ethernet Connector 48

Table

4-4

Pinout

Video Connector 48

Table 4-5 Description

Serial

POIt

Signals 49

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Figures

Figure

1-1

Attaching the Pedestal Stabilization Wings 6

Figure

2-1

Sun-3/260 Connectors on the rear edge

the CPU Board

Figure 2-2 Orienting the Mouse on its Pad

Figure 2-3 CPU Board and Extraction LeverLocation

Figure 2-4 Location

the 8-pin Level Select Jumper Connection

Figure 2-5 Color and Sync Connection Example

Figure 2-6 Color Output and Grayscale Connection Example

Figure 2-7 Color Output and Grayscale Connection Example 22

Figure 2-8 What the Diagnostic LEDs Mean

Figure 2-9 Null Modem Cable Pin Arrangement 30

Figure 2-10 Linking Up to aLevel "2" Type Ethernet 32

Figure 2-11 Linking Up

aLevel "1" Type Ethernet

Figure 2-12 Ethernet Cabling Lengths

_........................

Figure 4-1 ATypical DTE/DCE Configuration 48

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.....

Preface

This manual (PIN 800-1528-XX) provides information for customers who have

purchased the Sun-3/260 Pedestal Workstation. \Vith this manual and the addi-

tional documentation shipped with

your

unit, you should be able

get your

Sun-3/260 set-up and running properly.

The manual covers unpacking, connection

the monitor, keyboard, mouse, and

Ethernet

Information

connecting amodem, printer

terminal to the serial

ports is included. Basic procedures for connecting the unit to an existing Ether-

net

setting up anew one are offered. Simple troubleshooting tips are given in

the course

the text.

At the end

the text we have included a"comments sheet" for the user. Sugges-

tions

a:1d

constructive criticism on omissions, errors,

accuracy in this manual

are

n~eded

from you, the user. Your responses will help toward keeping

our

documentation accurate and up to date.

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