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In <00z1eEAnSqdxEww0@wire.demon.co.uk> Clive Carmock <clive@wire.demon.co.uk> writes:

>In article <4l3t2a$fhb@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Craig Dewick
><craig@zeta.org.au> writes

>>As long as you have a record of these values, there are ways to write to a
>>new NVRAM to restore the settings. It depends on if you know what they are
>>or not, and if you have the NVRAM data saved in a file or not. 

>Just how do you save the NVRAM details?   I ask because I have a
>SparcStation IPX and as this is now getting a bit old- I assume that the
>NVRAM battery will be nearing the end of its life and I'd rather be
>prepared.

Ok, I've never actually done it, but the ROM monitor does have a command 
called '.eeprom' which will display the important values which you need 
to re-construct the NVRAM if the battery fails.

There are also two NVRAM FAQ's you might like to check out:

http://doener.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/FAQ/eeprom-nvram.FAQ

and

http://www.rahul.net/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

Both are very good.

Regards,

Craig.
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