12 Oct
2002
12 Oct
'02
2:24 p.m.
On 11 Oct, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Sun 4c, runs Linux, SunOS, Solaris (poorly) -
NetBSD and OpenBSD. I run NetBSD in the 1.3 / 1.4 days on a 64 MB SS1+
with the double slot CGSIX. Nice machine. The case design is IMHO the
nicest I have seen up to this time. (And I have lots of old *ix
workstations.) As already stated Linux does not run well on sun4c
machines due to MMU issues.
12MHz?
SS1 = 20 MHz
SS1+ = 25 MHz
SS2 = 40MHz
IPC = 25 MHz, on board mono FB
IPX = 40MHz, CGSIX on board 8 bit color FB
The slowest SPARC was the 4/110 with 14.28 MHz.
original SPARC processor.
SPARC V7. The first
SPARC version that Sun used in products. AFAIK
there where some academical predecessors.
Uses 30 pin parity memory. May not like 3 chip PC
SIMMs.
May depend on the SIMMs / RAM chips and the refresh cycles they need.
My SS1+ was happy with 3 chip SIMMs.
Prefers 9 chip SIMMs. Can take 1MB, probably takes 4MB
(mine did).
All SPARCstations should be able to take 4 MB SIMMs as the SS1 can take
them. (According to the sun.hardware.FAQ file.)
If you have any router or system logs with the
old MAC address, you can copy it to a new chip.
I prefere to do some surgery to
attach a new battery. Much cheaper.
(And I get more geek points for it. ;-) )
--
tschuess,
Jochen
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