[rescue] 480Mhz Cpu's in an Ultra 2 Chasis? Can it be done?

[Phil Stracchino]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:11:42AM -0800, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:
>> I've never understood, however, why nobody has tried those in a 220R or 
>> 420R - those ought to have the cooling and power to support the 480Mhz 
>> modules, whereas perhaps the desktop versions (U60 and U60) may not...
> 
> Maybe because a lot of 420Rs already have 450Mhz procs, so 480Mhz wasn't
> worth the time/effort?
> 
> mrbill at ohno:~> psrinfo -v
> Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 02/17/2007 10:17:03
>   on-line since 05/25/2006 12:56:29.
>   The sparcv9 processor operates at 450 MHz,
>         and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
> Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 02/17/2007 10:17:03
>   on-line since 05/25/2006 12:56:30.
>   The sparcv9 processor operates at 450 MHz,
>         and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
> Status of virtual processor 2 as of: 02/17/2007 10:17:03
>   on-line since 05/25/2006 12:56:30.
>   The sparcv9 processor operates at 450 MHz,
>         and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
> Status of virtual processor 3 as of: 02/17/2007 10:17:03
>   on-line since 05/25/2006 12:56:30.
>   The sparcv9 processor operates at 450 MHz,
>         and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.


babylon5:alaric:~:1 $ ssh -l root minbar psrinfo -v
Status of processor 0 as of: 02/17/2007 15:16:01
  Processor has been on-line since 01/16/2007 06:36:35.
  The sparcv9 processor operates at 248 MHz,
        and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.


I feel so ..... inadequate.    ;)



(Seriously, though, while more RAM and more and faster processors would
be nice, minbar does its job perfectly well.  I do wish I had the
horsepower there to run RAID5 on the array instead of RAID0 though.  But
there's other infrastructure upgrades -- such as a decent color printer
-- that we need more than we need to upgrade minbar.)


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