[geeks] Sparcs

[Ryn]

How does the dual SM81 compare to the U1 @ 167MHZ? Curious which provides
a better interactive experience?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Dittman" <dittman at dittman.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 6:11 PM
Subject: [geeks] Sparcs


> I upgraded my SS20 from 2xSM61s to 2xSM81s.  I had a little
> bit of a scare when I got an error message about a CPU
> failure. I swapped around the SM81s, trying them one at a
> time, until I decided to check to see what firmware level
> I needed.  After swapping out the PROM from one of the
> donor SS20s the system came up.  I guess it would have
> been easier to just move the two drives from the original
> to one of the donors, along with the SM81 from the other
> donor, since the NVRAM was reset when I changed the PROM
> so I lost any custom settings anyway.
> 
> I've the SS20 with 2xSM81s, an Ultra 1/170, and an Ultra
> 2 2200.  I've got an Ultra 2 1170 on the way.  I'm also
> going to buy the Ultra 30 instead of the AXi, I think.
> 
> These systems are addictive.  I really want one of the
> new SunBlade 2000s, although if I could figure out how
> to get one of the Sun Fire 15K systems from work...
> -- 
> Eric Dittman
> dittman at dittman.net
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