Subject: Re: free Sun SBus cards & parts, some Sun RAM
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Robin-David Hammond%KB3IEN <rhammond@databit7.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/17/2006 16:12:16
Might be a "Sun Station 2" I dont recall seeing anything toughting the
SPArc logo on the box.
The SUNs were a gift (not from a greek/romulan) so I think I'm okay.
I fighting tooth and nail to get asterisk on the powerpc before i worry
about what manner of args to pass to bootp and tftpd.
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, der Mouse wrote:
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:05:35 -0400 (EDT)
> From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
> To: port-sparc64@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: free Sun SBus cards & parts, some Sun RAM
>
>>> According to the JWBirdsall hardware reference
>>> (http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref1.html) all Sun-2s were Multibus
>>> or VME, with SBus appearing with the SS1.
>> Maybe then [it's] the ss2.
>
> That's actually fairly plausible, at least from where I sit. I once
> had a junk dealer try to sell me a "SPARC 3", which when I saw it
> turned out to be a Sun-3/80, not a SPARC at all.
>
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