[rescue] Re: Any difference between Sun E6000 and E6500?

[nick at snowman.net]

Hrm, in that case you're probably right... I didn't actually check the FEH
to verify that.
	Nick

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote:

> Hi Nick
> 
> Are you sure? I have documentation that states the E6500 midplane runs at 84MHz because they couldn't get it to scale like the other Ex500 systems.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
> > The backplanes are slightly different, with the E6500 supporting the 9?MHZ
> > (93 possibly?) and 100MHZ, whereas they both support 83mhz.
> > 	Nick
> > 
> > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Lads
> > > 
> > > I've been steadily gathering parts and information for my Sun E6000 public shell project.
> > > 
> > > Something I haven't been able to clear up - are there actually any differences between the E6000 and E6500 server? I always assumed that the E6500 had a 100MHz Gigaplane, but it actually runs at 84MHz like the E6000.
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