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  • Reprogramming Blade 100 NVRAM ... without MKP command!?

    From dan0h@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 17 12:45:37 2019
    Hi, so I've repaired plenty of Ultra 5 and 10 NVRAM chips, hack apart, install coin cell, reprogram, no problem at all. But recently I bought an old Blade 100, which typical of old Sun's, had a failed NVRAM - being as I've done so many I didn't think
    anything of it, and expected the same routine... once the machine was reassembled I was hit with a bit of a hiccup that I wasn't expecting... The Blade 100 OBP doesn't have the MKP command!?

    I've googled the heck out of a solution, and found a Github repo that had a "Blade 100 NVRAM fix", but that didn't work. Is there a Sun engineer in the house that knows how to reprogram these later machines, without the MKP command!?

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 17 22:04:24 2019
    Can you stick it in another machine that has MKP?

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 17 22:23:27 2019
    I have another post detailing how to program IDPROM using debug at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.solaris/iYkKp5T5i-c

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  • From dan0h@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Oct 18 15:44:11 2019
    On Friday, 18 October 2019 06:23:28 UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
    I have another post detailing how to program IDPROM using debug at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.solaris/iYkKp5T5i-c

    Awesome, thank you! I'll work my way through it. I don't have another machine running OBP 4.0 with a socketed IDPROM socket sadly. But that guide looks like a good start...

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