[rescue] Solaris 86 on non-HCL hardware

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Sun Oct 6 15:11:03 CDT 2002


On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Steve Sandau wrote:

> > > What's the chance of installing Solaris86 7 on this thing?  The box
> > > isn't on the HCL, but the SCSI card, and Adaptec 1740, is, and I
> > > expect I could find a compatible NIC around here.  I have no idea
> > > what the video is, since it's on the motherboard, but it can't be
> > > too weird, being a 1993 box. It's got a SCSI CD-rom drive, a
> > > Toshiba 5701B, and six SCSI drives in it (2x1gig,
> > > 2x4gig, 2x4.5gig).  72 megs of RAM.
> >
> > OK
> >
> > > So ... do you think it will work?  Any major gotchas I need to be
> > > aware of?
> >
> > Should work - I think the real concern with Solaris x86 is the I/O
> > devices, and as you say, the SCSI is supported, a NIC will be found,
> > and the video is most likely straight-forward VGA/SVGA - Solaris x86 is
> > picky about these items...
> >
> > P60 - aren't they *slower* than, say, a 486/100?
> >
> Not in my (limited) experience. The bus improved in the Pentium. I had
> some of those Evergreen Pentium-on-a-486-sized chip things, and found
> that the Pentium 75 upgrade on a 486 brought it up to about a P60...

I believe that the Evergreen upgrade was a prepackaged 133MHz AMD 486 with
a voltage regulator, a heatsink, and a fan.  I benchmarked one of them
mounted on an IBM PS/2 Model 95 Type III running at 200MHz and it stomped
all over the same machine with a Type IV processor complex running at
90MHz.  I don't have my benchmark results handy right now, but it wasn't
even close.  The solution I ended up going with was a 233MHz Pentium
running in a Type IV complex using a Powerleap interposer.

Peace...  Sridhar



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