Subject: Re: SPARCclassic "AUI" pinout
To: Port-SPARC <Port-SPARC@netbsd.org>
From: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/04/2001 21:27:51
On Wed, Sep 05 2001 at 02:07:48 +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:48:19 -0700
>     From:        "Don Yuniskis" <auryn@gci-net.com>
>     Message-ID:  <001101c13572$2f03b300$275c20d0@George.WDMSetc.com>
> 
>   |      Does anyone know the pinout of the network connector
>   | on the classic (*not* the RJ45)?  Or, have a mating
>   | transceiver that can be examined to deduce same?
> 
> The answer to that was just provided - 
No, not yet.

Some people seem to completly ignore the fact that the Classic (and LX/ZX)
do *NOT* have a standard AUI Connector (DSub-15).

The Classic does have a 26 pin Mini-DSub connector that look similar to the
usual SCSI-2 connectors. (On the LX-Type machines this connector is also
used to connect the external speakerbox to the SPARCstation).

> but why would you want to know?
> Unless you're planning on building your own transceiver, the pinout of
Or to make a cable to connect a normal transceiver...

> that particular connector is basically useless.  AUI connector pinouts
> (as distinct from the mounting brackets) are one of the more precisely
> standardised interfaces around - any 10Mbit/sec transceiver ever made
> (for 10base5, 10bse2, 10baseT, 10baseFL - maybe others) will connect,
Oh really? Try to connect them to thos old Apple MACs (with AAUI) or
SPARCstation Classic [X] or LX...

> directly, or via an AUI cable, to that connector - nothing else will,
> nor would it be sensible to try connecting anything else.

BTW: You'll find the Pinout in the SPARCclassic/SPARCclassix X/SPARCstation LX
Service Manual on docs.sun.com:
http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.208.1/SMCLASSIC/@Ab2PageView/idmatch(Z4000A2D32FF)?DwebQuery=SPARCStation&Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1#Z4000A2D32FF

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