[rescue] SPARCstation 20

Monty Walls mwalls at castor.oktax.state.ok.us
Mon Feb 4 11:53:54 CST 2002


On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 14:21:01 -0500
Brian Hechinger <wonko at arkham.ws> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:47:35PM -0500, Steve Sandau wrote:
> >
> > I thought I remembered seeing a 24-bit Fujitsu framebuffer that used an
> > sbus and an mbus slot.
> 

No, just 2 sbus slots.  And it's a pain to wedge in.  Also the 2.6 drivers work
just fine in 32bit mode under Solaris 8 (no xgl or ogl, grrr).

As far as dual CPU mbus modules, keep an eye on Ebay, the twins are high...
I've seen a lot of the dual Hypersparc 100's.  I keep thinking a about
an X-Acto, a Dremmel, and I could fix that....


> well considering that josh said the same thing, maybe there is such a best.
> but it's definitely not this one.
> 
> > I also thought that dual-CPU modules only used
> > one mbus slot. ??
> 
> they do, but they are double wide, and overhang the closest SBus slot.  they
> don't actually use the slot, they just make it useless.
> 
> -brian

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