30 Jan
2004
30 Jan
'04
11:46 a.m.
Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but it goes into terminal mode
because I don't have a keyboard attached. It has a 20 Gb hard drive and all
four SIMM sockets are filled. It has the biggest, strangest SIMMS that I've
ever seen. They're shaped kind of like a T and the top is longer than the
bottom and are crammed full of ICs. No idea of the amount of memory or CPU
speed since I can't get to the OS. It's a model 380-0111-01. Does anyone
know where I can get the specs for that specific model?
Joe
30 Jan
30 Jan
12:03 p.m.
heres ths ultra 10 page -
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U10/components.html
dont see that model number though -
-billp
On Friday, Jan 30, 2004, at 17:46 US/Eastern, Joe R. wrote:
Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but it
goes into terminal
mode
because I don't have a keyboard attached. It has a 20 Gb hard drive
and all
four SIMM sockets are filled. It has the biggest, strangest SIMMS that
I've
ever seen. They're shaped kind of like a T and the top is longer than
the
bottom and are crammed full of ICs. No idea of the amount of memory or
CPU
speed since I can't get to the OS. It's a model 380-0111-01. Does
anyone
know where I can get the specs for that specific model?
Joe
12:14 p.m.
Subject: new find: Sun Ultra 10
Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but it
goes into terminal
mode because I don't have a keyboard attached.
And won't boot as well? Odd.
No idea of the amount of memory or CPU speed since I
can't get to the
OS.
Older Suns report their RAM config and at least some info about their
CPU in the ROM-generated banner. If it has the "ok " prompt the older
machines use, typing "banner" at it might do something useful.
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2:17 p.m.
Found one of
these today. Tried to boot it but it goes into terminal
mode because I don't have a keyboard attached.
And won't boot as well? Odd. No idea of the
amount of memory or CPU speed since I can't get to the
OS.
Older Suns report their RAM config and at least some info about their
CPU in the ROM-generated banner. If it has the "ok " prompt the older
machines use, typing "banner" at it might do something useful.
3:23 p.m.
At 05:17 PM 1/30/04 -0800, you wrote:
I suspect he's stuck at the OpenBoot prompt with no way of telling it to
boot.
An Ultra 10 will take a max of 1Gb. The CPU speeds range from 300Mhz -
440Mhz, IIRC. It should display this info on the screen when you power it
on.
It's a nice machine, but unless you can replace the IDE disk with a SCSI
controller and disk, the disk is a real bottleneck. My 300Mhz U10 came with
an ATA33 disk that didn't even run at 5400RPM! I still need to get it
switched to SCSI :^(
Zane
I just got home and opened it up. Things are looking good! It has four
sticks of Kingston KTS7030/512 memory. I looked them up online. Each pair
is 512Mb so that means it has 1Gb of RAM! The hard drive is a Seagate
Barracuda II model ST320420A. That's an Ultra ATA/66 8.5 mS 7200RPM 20.4Gb
drive. It's not SCSI but it will do! The CPU is PN 501-5040. That's a 300
Mhz UltraSpark IIi CPU with a ceramic CPU and 512k cache. It's not the
fastest thing out there but again, it will do!
Now where can I find Windeos for this thing? :-)
Seriously, I found an Adaptec AHA-2940W/2940UW PCI SCSI controller today.
Will it work in the SUN?
Joe
Joe
Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but it
goes into terminal
mode because I don't have a keyboard attached.
And won't boot as well? Odd. No idea
of the amount of memory or CPU speed since I can't get to the
OS.
Older Suns report their RAM config and at least some info about their
CPU in the ROM-generated banner. If it has the "ok " prompt the older
machines use, typing "banner" at it might do something useful.
3:30 p.m.
I just got home and opened it up. Things are looking
good! It has four
sticks of Kingston KTS7030/512 memory. I looked them up online. Each pair
is 512Mb so that means it has 1Gb of RAM! The hard drive is a Seagate
Barracuda II model ST320420A. That's an Ultra ATA/66 8.5 mS 7200RPM 20.4Gb
drive. It's not SCSI but it will do! The CPU is PN 501-5040. That's a 300
Mhz UltraSpark IIi CPU with a ceramic CPU and 512k cache. It's not the
fastest thing out there but again, it will do!
Nice, you've got about the same system as I do, I've only got an 8Gb 7200RPM
drive, but I've got the nice Creator 3D card in it. Mine came with 640Mb
RAM, but I found some that would work in it, and upgraded to 1Gb.
Now where can I find Windeos for this thing? :-)
Har, har.... On a serious note, I'd not recommend trying to run OpenBSD on
it, that about drove me crazy. First time I've ever seen starting X-Windows
crash a system!
Seriously, I found an Adaptec AHA-2940W/2940UW PCI
SCSI controller today.
Will it work in the SUN?
No. You need a Symbios SYM 22801 controller, I thing if you get the right
PC board you can do a substitute though. There are also a couple others
that will work.
Zane
3:31 p.m.
On Jan 30, 2004, at 8:23 PM, Joe R. wrote:
I just got home and opened it up. Things are looking
good! It has
four
sticks of Kingston KTS7030/512 memory. I looked them up online. Each
pair
is 512Mb so that means it has 1Gb of RAM! The hard drive is a Seagate
Barracuda II model ST320420A. That's an Ultra ATA/66 8.5 mS 7200RPM
20.4Gb
drive. It's not SCSI but it will do! The CPU is PN 501-5040. That's a
300
Mhz UltraSpark IIi CPU with a ceramic CPU and 512k cache. It's not the
fastest thing out there but again, it will do!
<mutters comments about Joe's ancestry>
That's a damn fine catch, Joe. Like Zane said, the IDE subsystem is
slow as payday, but other than that it's a sweet machine.
Now where can I find Windeos for this thing? :-)
You just missed SoftWindows For Unix on eBay.... Or, you can snag
one of those AMD SunPCi cards that are going nearly for free and run
plain old NT or Win2K on it. :)
Seriously, I found an Adaptec AHA-2940W/2940UW PCI
SCSI controller
today.
Will it work in the SUN?
Probly not, unless you run $Free_OS on it. Most anything with a
Symbios chip will work, but you may have to boot from the IDE disk. I
know for a fact that an IBM-badged 53C875 out of an RS/6000 will boot
that box.
Doc
3:43 p.m.
You just missed SoftWindows For Unix on eBay....
Or, you can snag
one of those AMD SunPCi cards that are going nearly for free and run
plain old NT or Win2K on it. :)
Bleep, how did I forget about those! I've been wanting to get one of the
Celeron based ones for my system, but can't justify the cost (my real Unix
system is a G5 dual 2Ghz running Mac OS X 10.3.2). Another option would be
WABI, but you might have to run Solaris 2.5.1 for that.
Personally the systems I'd like to get Softwindows running on would be
either my SGI O2 R12k/270, or a OpenVMS system :^)
Zane
5:38 p.m.
Personally the
systems I'd like to get Softwindows running on would be
either my SGI O2 R12k/270, or a OpenVMS system :^)
I've run SoftWindows on a VMS system. After running it a couple of
times I removed it and never wanted to run it again.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
2:20 p.m.
At 06:14 PM 1/30/04 -0500, you wrote:
It probably is trying to boot but I don't have a keyboard attached so it
reports that there's no keyboard attached and that it will connect to a
terminal on COM 1. Then the screen blanks out.
It never gets that far without the keyboard. I have a keyboard in
storage. I'll go get it tomorrow.
Joe
Subject: new
find: Sun Ultra 10
Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but
it goes into terminal
mode because I don't have a keyboard attached.
And won't boot as well? Odd. No idea of the amount of memory or CPU speed
since I can't get to the
OS.
Older Suns report their RAM config and at least some info about their
CPU in the ROM-generated banner. If it has the "ok " prompt the older
machines use, typing "banner" at it might do something useful.
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2:25 p.m.
Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but it
goes into
terminal mode because I don't have a keyboard attached.
And won't boot as
well? Odd.
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