Sun Ultra E6K Question

On Sep 22, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote: Mazel Tov! The E6000s were a single platform system that came in its own rack; no ability to have physical domains like an E10k, but you can do Solaris Zones with Solaris 10 on it. 10 CPU boards would be 20 CPUs; each CPU board would have a max of 2 CPUs on them. They could be as slow as 167Mhz (unlikely) or as fast as 440Mhz (also unlikely). Chances are they're 360Mhz or 400Mhz, but they could be 250s, too. Boot disks would be external to the system (usually) and should connect via SCSI (but all in the same cabinet.) Some systems were set up with an A5000 for the disks in the same rack, and it could boot over FC-AL. There is a possibility it has an internal disk board that would take 2x SCA drives and one of the slots giving it internal disks. You could do cool things with the FC-AL setup, as you'd have fully redundant connections to the drives either via Alternate Pathing (old Solaris) or MPXio (later Solaris.) 2x the bandwidth to the disks and 2x the fun. They are fairly standard (large) Sun kit. 9600/8N1 on ttyA for the console. However, it is possible to give it a physical console. The clock board has a type-5 keyboard hookup, and you can throw an sbus framebuffer in there. It may have an IO board with a UPA slot so you can put a Creator 2D or 3D in it, giving you one of the "fastest workstations" of the period. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net> wrote: -- -Jon +32 0 486 260 686