[rescue] Operating system for Axil 320

[Michael-John Turner]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 02:36:12PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> An aspiring rescuer has come to me looking for an operating system for
> an Axil 320. I know nothing about it, and have not even seen the
> machine. He as told it was the same as a SPARC 20, but I'm not sure
> how accurate that is.

Yep, it's a SPARCstation 20 clone, but it takes regular narrow SCSI rather
than SCA disks. Nice little machine - I have one with a pair of SM61s
running NetBSD. 

mainbus0 (root): SUNW,Axil-320: hostid 72860b01
cpu0 at mainbus0: mid 8: TMS390Z50 v0 or TMS390Z55 @ 60 MHz, on-chip FPU
cpu0: physical 20K instruction (64 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 1024K external (32 b/l): cache enabled
cpu1 at mainbus0: mid 10: TMS390Z50 v0 or TMS390Z55 @ 60 MHz, on-chip FPU
cpu1: physical 20K instruction (64 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 1024K external (32 b/l): cache enabled

> Will it run a standard SUN operating system? If so, what should I 
> give him?

As others have mentioned, it'll run any Solaris that supports sun4m
architecture machines (so pretty much anything from SunOS 4.1.3 or so up to
and including Solaris 9). Personally, I'd run NetBSD on it.

-mj
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