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501-1075



3/50 motherboard w/o FPU 15.7MHz 68020, a socket for a 68881 floating point
 chip (at 15.7MHz), Sun-3 MMU with eight hardware contexts, 4M of onboard
 memory.  No bus interfaces.

 From left to right, the back edge of the board has: a female DB15
  keyboard/mouse connector; eight LEDs (bit 0 to the left); a switch to toggle
  between Normal and Diagnostics modes; a BNC thin Ethernet connector; a female
  DB15 AUI Ethernet connector; two female DB25 serial port connectors (ports A
  and B from left to right); a female D50 SCSI port connector; and a female DB9
  monochrome video connector.

 Pin 1 is usually in the upper right corner of all connectors.  Unconnected
  pins are not listed.

 The pinout of the keyboard/mouse connector is:

  1   RxD0 (keyboard)     8   GND
  2   GND                 9   GND
  3   TxD0 (keyboard)     10  VCC
  4   GND                 11  VCC
  5   RxD1 (mouse)        12  VCC
  6   GND                 14  VCC
  7   TxD1 (mouse)        15  VCC

 The eight LEDs are used for diagnostic purposes.  In the chart below, a "1"
  indicates a lit LED, and a "0" indicates an unlit LED.  The pattern is shown
  left to right, as it appears on the LEDs.

  Pattern     Status                          Error
  --------    ------                          -----
  11111111    Resetting                       CPU or PROMs bad
  00000000    Test 0: CPU to SCC path         CPU board (SCC) bad
  10000000    Test 1: boot PROM               Boot PROM bad
  11000000    Test 3: context register        CPU board (MMU) bad
  00100000    Test 4: segment map RAM rd/wr   CPU board (MMU) bad
  10100000    Test 5: segment map RAM         CPU board (MMU) bad
  01100000    Test 6: page map RAM            CPU board (MMU) bad
  11100000    Test 7: memory data path        CPU board bad
  00010000    Test 8: bus error detection     CPU board bad
  10010000    Test 9: interrupt capability    CPU board bad
  01010000    Test 10: MMU read access        CPU board bad
  11010000    Test 11: MMU write access       CPU board bad
  00110000    Test 12: write to invalid page  CPU board bad
  10110000    Test 13: write to protected pg  CPU board bad
  01110000    Test 14: parity error check     CPU board bad
  11110000    Test 15: parity error check     CPU board bad
  00001000    Test 16: memory tests           CPU board bad
  00000001    Self-tests have found an error  See below
  00000010    An exception class error found  See below

 "Marching ones" (cycling through 10000000, 01000000, 00100000, etc.) indicates
  that Unix is running OK. On power up, it cycles through the tests in the
  chart above, then boots Unix.  Pattern 11111111 may also mean that a SCSI
  device was powered up prior to the CPU being powered up.  If LED 7 (00000001)
  lights up while the tests are being performed, it indicates that the test
  failed.  If LED 6 (00000010) lights up while the tests are being performed,
  it indicates that an unexpected error (bus error, address error, unexpected
  interrupt, etc.) occurred during the test.  When all tests are finished, LED
  5 (00000100) starts blinking to indicate that the ROM monitor is running
  and/or Unix is booting.

 If you want the machine to boot normally, set the diagnostics switch to "NORM"
  (labelled "BOOT" on some early versions).  If you want extended diagnostics
  when you power up the system, set the switch to the "DIAG" position.  If the
  switch is set to "DIAG", power-on self-test messages are sent to serial port
  A.

 Jumper J0642 and switch S0618 relate to Ethernet.  The pinout of the AUI
  Ethernet connector is:

  2   E.COL+              9   E.COL-
  3   E.TxD+              10  E.TxD-
  5   E.RxD+              12  E.RxD-
  6   GND                 13  +12V

 The serial ports conform to both RS-232-C and RS-423 and are wired DTE.  The
  documented maximum speeds are 19200 bps for output and 9600 bps for input.
  The pinout of the serial ports is:

  2   TxD (transmit data)     8   DCD   (Data Carrier Detect)
  3   RxD (receive data)      15  DB    (transmit clock from DCE)
  4   RTS (Request To Send)   17  DD    (receive clock from DCE)
  5   CTS (Clear To Send)     20  DTR   (Data Terminal Ready)
  6   DSR (Data Set Ready)    24  DA    (transmit clock from DTE)
  7   GND                     25  VERR  (-5V)

 The DB, DD, and DA signals are not used with ordinary asynchronous equipment
  such as most modems and terminals, printers, etc.).

        The pinout of the SCSI connector is:

  1   GND         17  GND         34  GND
  2   data bus 0  18  data parity 35  GND
  3   GND         19  GND         36  busy
  4   data bus 1  20  GND         37  GND
  5   GND         21  GND         38  acknowledge
  6   data bus 2  22  GND         39  GND
  7   GND         23  GND         40  reset
  8   data bus 3  24  GND         41  GND
  9   GND         25  GND???      42  message
  10  data bus 4  26  ???         43  GND
  11  GND         27  GND         44  select
  12  data bus 5  28  GND         45  GND
  13  GND         29  GND         46  command/data
  14  data bus 6  30  GND         47  GND
  15  GND         31  GND         48  request
  16  data bus 7  32  attention   49  GND
                  33  GND         50  input/output

  and the pattern of the pins is:

   49    46    43  ....  19    16    13    10    7    4    1
      48    45    42  ....  18    15    12    9    6    3
   50    47    44    41  ....  17    14    11    8    5    2

 The monochrome video output levels are ECL/TTL, with a resolution of
  1152 x 900 at 62KHz horizontal sync and 66Hz vertical sync.  The pinout of
  the monochrome video connector is:

  1   VIDEO+              6   VIDEO-
  3   HSYNC               7   GND
  4   VSYNC               8   GND
                          9   GND

 There are five jumpers/jumper blocks and one DIP switch block.  All locations
  are given with component side up and connector side toward you.

 J0108 (forward far left corner, pin 1 at right)

  1-2    jump to test the onboard 4M RAM                 JUMPED
  3-4    jump to run "ETH SIA CAL." test                 UNJUMPED
  5-6    jump to "SCSI on (on is active high)"           UNJUMPED
  7-8    jump to "DCP on (on is active high)"            JUMPED

 J0123 (forward far left corner, pin 1 at right)

  1-2    15.7MHz clock for 68020                         JUMPED
  3-4    12.5MHz clock for 68020                         UNJUMPED
  5-6    12.5MHz clock for 68881                         UNJUMPED
  7-8    15.7MHz clock for 68881                         JUMPED

 J0642 (K4, by S0618, near AUI Ethernet connector)

  1-2    jump for type-1 Ethernet transceiver, unjump for type-2

 J0702 (leftish middlish, by 68881 socket and boot PROMs, pin 1 at right)

  1-2    jump for 27256 PROMs                            UNJUMPED
  3-4    jump for 26512 PROMs                            JUMPED

 J1500 (right middlish)

  1-2    jump for 100MHz video clock                     JUMPED

 S0618 (by AUI Ethernet connector, switch 1 toward rear)

  1-8    ON for thin Ethernet (BNC connector), OFF for AUI

 Additional features of interest: the IDPROM is at location U0204 (grid N21),
  on the left side toward the far end, by the battery.  The boot PROM is at
  location U0701 (grid N9), on the left side toward the near end.  The keyboard
  fuse F1 is near serial port B at grid F4 and the Ethernet fuse F2 is near the
  SCSI port at grid E4.

 Note that boot PROM version 1.8 is required to boot from a QIC-24 tape.  Boot
  PROM version 2.5 is required to boot from a QIC-24 tape in a Sun-2 shoebox.

 Note that CPU revisions lower than 501-1075-10, 501-1162-08, and 501-1133-10
  may fail under SunOS 3.3.  Additionally, the 370-1011 Sysgen SC4000
  SCSI/QIC-11 tape controller does not work with the 3/50 under SunOS 3.3.

 Note that a bus error may occur when large executables are run during a
  prefetch across a page boundary with CPU revisions lower than 501-1162-11 and
  501-1207-04.

 Power requirements are +5V @ 13.5A max, -5V (-5.2V?) @ 0.8A max,
  and +12V @ 0.5A max.

  




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