[SunRescue] What 4/xxx vme boards have on-board esp scsi?

[Mike Nicewonger]

Well, I have tried OpenBSD on the 4/600 board with SM-51's and it will boot
nicely, won't boot with SM-100's, have yet to build one to put to work yet.
I have a 4/110 board and 1 or 2 4/330 boards available. I also have 6 or 7
4/600 boards here. Red Hat 6.0 runs nicely on the 4/600 with either CPU.

What does the beerbelly have for a trade?

And since when is anything on a Sun "normal"? <grin>

Cheers,

--Mike N

-----Original Message-----
From: BSD Bob <bsdbob at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Friday, January 21, 2000 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] What 4/xxx vme boards have on-board esp scsi?


>> The 4/110 doesn't even have "normal" esp controller, it's a weird mutant
>> thing.
>
>Ahh, I have heard the ``wierd'' name bandied about, but am not sure of what
>exactly it means.  All I know is that the OpenBSD port works fine out of
>the box on the 4/110, but dies on the 4/260 with scsi timeout errors.
>I think James Birdsall was having similar problems.  NetBSD does the same
>thing on the sun3 scsi controllers.  It also happens on the sun3 line
>sych as the 3/xxx machines with sun3 controllers.
>
>Can you add some info as to what ``wierd'' is?
>
>> > What specific cpu boards would folks recommend me to look for in VME
sun4
>> > boards for a little more horsepower than the 4/110 board?
>>
>> 4/300.  Faster (25MHz), fairly easy to expand (has 8 SIMM slots on board
>> that can take 1MB or 4MB and you can find 48 SIMM expansion cards).
>
>The 4/300 sounds like a board I should check out......
>
>Now, where to dredge one up on a beerbellies budget!
>
>But, even a spare 4/110 board would do, since that one runs it
>nicely, albeit a little slowly.
>
>> Of course, you could always go for broke and try to find a 4/600 board.
>
>Well, that one has not walked across my sight path, yet.....(:+}}...
>
>Someday.....
>
>Bob
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