[SunRescue] Questions on SparcServer1000(E) and SS10? (And thanks for previou s help!)

[Peter L. Wargo]

on 1/17/01 17:23, James Lockwood at james at foonly.com wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> 
>> On a palin SS10, they are for the NVRAM simm that does prestoserve. On the
>> 10SX and the 20, they can also be used for VSIMMs.
> 
> Right.  I have the latest PrestoServe software with patches which will run
> under Solaris 8 if anyone needs it.  Each NVSIMM has 2MB of onboard SRAM
> for I/O write caching.  Sun didn't "support" 2 NVSIMMs in one system but
> they work fine. 

I also have an NVSIMM kicking around if anybody is interested.

> -James [is a palin SS10 related to a gilliam SS10?]

Sort of.  It's an offshoot of the canttypefershit line.

-Pete