Chris Amthor [amthor@chroam.de] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a HP9000 sitting around that is labelled E55, nothing
> else. uname -a gives:
[...]
> Since many times these H/W is mentioned together with 700er machines,
> are these any similiar? And the most important: is this machine
> covered by port-hp700 of NetBSD?

The E-Class servers are technically quite close to the
712 workstations, ie most I/O-functionality is implemented
via the same circuitry (LASI). Some functionality however
was taken over from other, more obscure 800s servers and
was implemented via devices attached to the HP-PB bus.
There isn't any publically available documentation for
these HP-PB devices up till now, so no drivers exist.

This means that eg the SCSI controller is not supported
(by any open-source OS), which renders a server quite
useless.

The ethernet and console should work though.


        - paul

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