31 Jul
2007
31 Jul
'07
7:03 p.m.
I picked up a
pair of SM91-2's on eBay years ago. They do indeed
work in
an SS20 -- for a while. Then I think the heat
catches up with them...
Every time I installed them (I must've tried singles and pairs) it
would
be fine, I'd go do something else, and
I'd come back to a locked up
machine.
31 Jul
31 Jul
9:36 p.m.
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 19:03, Scott Quinn wrote:
Hmm- anyone managed to get the SM81s to work reliably in a SPARCstation
20 SMP?
I have a SS20/2xSM81 as my SMP Sun- haven't used it much yet but if in
general they have stability issues I should probably do something else.
I ran a SS20 with Dual ROSS 125MHz CPUs. They got seriously hot. Also ran
another SS20 w/Dual SR71s. Both the SR71 and ROSS needed an unique EPROM
upgrade to run without "freezing" (hanging) the system. Perhaps that's the
issue with your SM91-2 (as opposed to heat)???
You might want to post a query to the suns-at-home at net-kitchen.com list to get
the EPROM upgrade if required for the SM91 (if someone else doesn't respond
on this list with same).
Cheers,
Lyle
--
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Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
I picked up a pair of SM91-2's on eBay years ago.
They do indeed
work in
an SS20 -- for a while. Then I think the heat
catches up with them...
Every time I installed them (I must've tried singles and pairs) it
would
be fine, I'd go do something else, and
I'd come back to a locked up
machine.
I have had the same experience with 80MHz CPUs in my SS20. I finally
had
to settle for 2x50MHz and some stability instead.
Steve 
9:36 p.m.
At 7:03 PM -0700 7/31/07, Scott Quinn wrote:
Hmm- anyone managed to get the SM81s to work reliably in a
SPARCstation 20 SMP?
I have a SS20/2xSM81 as my SMP Sun- haven't used it much yet but if
in general they have stability issues I should probably do something
else.
I've been nice and stable with a pair of SM71's. What I think would
be cool to try is a pair of the dual CPU boards for a quad CPU system
(I think they were 50Mhz). I ran my SS20 like this for quite some
time before I upgraded to an UltraSparc based system.
My big problem is with the hard drives, most of my SCA drives are
7200 or 10k RPM, which tend to run to hot for Sun Pizza boxes, and
the bearings seem to go out.
Zane
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I picked up a pair of SM91-2's on eBay years ago.
They do indeed work in
an SS20 -- for a while. Then I think the heat catches up with them...
Every time I installed them (I must've tried singles and pairs) it would
be fine, I'd go do something else, and I'd come back to a locked
up machine.
I have had the same experience with 80MHz CPUs in my SS20. I finally had
to settle for 2x50MHz and some stability instead.
Steve 
10:06 p.m.
On Aug 1, 2007, at 12:36 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've been nice and stable with a pair of
SM71's. What I think
would be cool to try is a pair of the dual CPU boards for a quad
CPU system (I think they were 50Mhz). I ran my SS20 like this for
quite some time before I upgraded to an UltraSparc based system.
Those would be SM100s. Made by Ross, Cypress chipset, 40MHz, no
L2 cache, and ungodly slow. A system with two SM51s will run rings
around a system with two SM100s.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
10:36 p.m.
At 1:06 AM -0400 8/1/07, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Aug 1, 2007, at 12:36 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Actually I was thinking of Sun's SM52, dual 50Mhz boards with I
believe 1MB cache.
Zane
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| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
I've been nice and stable with a pair of
SM71's. What I think
would be cool to try is a pair of the dual CPU boards for a quad
CPU system (I think they were 50Mhz). I ran my SS20 like this for
quite some time before I upgraded to an UltraSparc based system.
Those would be SM100s. Made by Ross, Cypress chipset, 40MHz, no
L2 cache, and ungodly slow. A system with two SM51s will run rings
around a system with two SM100s.
10:44 p.m.
On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:36 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Actually I was thinking of Sun's SM52, dual 50Mhz boards with I
believe 1MB cache.
Oh, THOSE...I thought they were only used in the SS1000? Or am I
getting them mixed up with another module?
The SM100 really is a piece of garbage, though. Sun knew
(according to a former Sun employee) that they should never have sold
them, but being able to say "we have a quad-processor machine" was
worth quite a bit to them at the time.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
I've been nice and stable with a pair of
SM71's. What I think
would be cool to try is a pair of the dual CPU boards for a quad
CPU system (I think they were 50Mhz). I ran my SS20 like this
for quite some time before I upgraded to an UltraSparc based system.
Those would be SM100s. Made by Ross, Cypress chipset, 40MHz, no
L2 cache, and ungodly slow. A system with two SM51s will run
rings around a system with two SM100s. 
11:29 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:36 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Actually I was thinking of Sun's SM52, dual 50Mhz boards with I
believe 1MB cache.
Oh, THOSE...I thought they were only used in the SS1000? Or am I
getting them mixed up with another module?
They might have only been *sold* in the SS1000, but I've definitely run
them in the SS20. I suspect the configuration would probably be called
something similar to SS20/514.
Peace... Sridhar
I've been nice and stable with a pair of
SM71's. What I think would
be cool to try is a pair of the dual CPU boards for a quad CPU
system (I think they were 50Mhz). I ran my SS20 like this for quite
some time before I upgraded to an UltraSparc based system.
Those would be SM100s. Made by Ross, Cypress chipset, 40MHz, no L2
cache, and ungodly slow. A system with two SM51s will run rings
around a system with two SM100s.
1 Aug
1 Aug
8:06 a.m.
At 2:29 AM -0400 8/1/07, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
They were for the SS10 and SS20, I'm not sure they'd even fit in the
SS1000. Each one filled a M-Bus slot, and the S-Bus slot directly
next to it.
Zane
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+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:36 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Oh, THOSE...I thought they were only used in the SS1000? Or am I
getting them mixed up with another module?
They might have only been *sold* in the SS1000, but I've definitely
run them in the SS20. I suspect the configuration would probably be
called something similar to SS20/514.
>I've been nice and stable with a pair of SM71's. What I think
>would be cool to try is a pair of the dual CPU boards for a quad
>CPU system (I think they were 50Mhz). I ran my SS20 like this
>for quite some time before I upgraded to an UltraSparc based
>system.
Those would be SM100s. Made by Ross, Cypress chipset, 40MHz,
no L2 cache, and ungodly slow. A system with two SM51s will run
rings around a system with two SM100s.
Actually I was thinking of Sun's SM52, dual 50Mhz boards with I
believe 1MB cache.
9:39 a.m.
On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
They might have only been *sold* in the SS1000, but I've
definitely run them in the SS20. I suspect the configuration
would probably be called something similar to SS20/514.
They were for the SS10 and SS20, I'm not sure they'd even fit in
the SS1000. Each one filled a M-Bus slot, and the S-Bus slot
directly next to it.
Wow, that's a new one on me. I've used more Sun hardware than
most (not trying to sound like a weenie), and have never seen one of
those, at least not that I can recall.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
Actually I was
thinking of Sun's SM52, dual 50Mhz boards with I
believe 1MB cache.
Oh, THOSE...I thought they were only used in the SS1000? Or am
I getting them mixed up with another module? 
12:35 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 1:06 AM -0400 8/1/07, Dave McGuire wrote:
With TI<mumble>390 CPUs? I had an SS20 that came with a pair of
them. It was stupid fast, but you could perc coffee over the fan vent.
I might still have that thing, or at least the SM52s. You want 'em?
Doc
On Aug 1, 2007, at 12:36 AM, Zane H. Healy
wrote:
Actually I was thinking of Sun's SM52, dual 50Mhz boards with I believe
1MB cache. I've been nice and stable with a pair of
SM71's. What I think would
be cool to try is a pair of the dual CPU boards for a quad CPU system
(I think they were 50Mhz). I ran my SS20 like this for quite some
time before I upgraded to an UltraSparc based system.
Those would be SM100s. Made by Ross, Cypress chipset, 40MHz, no L2
cache, and ungodly slow. A system with two SM51s will run rings
around a system with two SM100s.
8:56 a.m.
New subject: [offlist] Re: Fast MBus modules
At 2:35 AM -0500 8/1/07, Doc Shipley wrote:
With TI<mumble>390 CPUs? I had an SS20 that
came with a pair of
them. It was stupid fast, but you could perc coffee over the fan
vent. I might still have that thing, or at least the SM52s. You
want 'em?
While they're something I've wanted for years, I have to admit that I
have absolutely no use for them, and they would most likely be better
off going to someone that would use them. I haven't powered on my
SS20/712 in nearly 5 years. Now if OpenBSD supported multiple CPU's
that would be a different matter. :^)
Now the real question is which is worse, the heat from a SS20/514, or
a SunBlade 1000! The SunBlade puts out so much heat I only really
use it to low-level format HD's for my VMS box. :^(
Zane
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| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
1:57 p.m.
New subject: [offlist] Re: Fast MBus modules
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:56:34 -0700
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
I haven't powered on my SS20/712 in nearly 5
years. Now if OpenBSD
supported multiple CPU's that would be a different matter. :^)
NetBSD supports
SMP on sparc for years.
--
tsch__,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
5:32 p.m.
New subject: [offlist] Re: Fast MBus modules
Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 2:35 AM -0500 8/1/07, Doc Shipley wrote:
Why is it so bad? My quad-proc 1.4GHz POWER4+ doesn't put out that much
heat. Not even close.
Peace... Sridhar
With TI<mumble>390 CPUs? I had an SS20
that came with a pair of
them. It was stupid fast, but you could perc coffee over the fan
vent. I might still have that thing, or at least the SM52s. You want
'em?
While they're something I've wanted for years, I have to admit that I
have absolutely no use for them, and they would most likely be better
off going to someone that would use them. I haven't powered on my
SS20/712 in nearly 5 years. Now if OpenBSD supported multiple CPU's
that would be a different matter. :^)
Now the real question is which is worse, the heat from a SS20/514, or a
SunBlade 1000! The SunBlade puts out so much heat I only really use it
to low-level format HD's for my VMS box. :^(
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