[rescue] PCI USB for Solaris/Sparc?

RichTea mail at catsnest.co.uk
Fri Jun 21 10:40:41 CDT 2013


As a side note, could you not just run SunRay as the head?
The older terminals are very cheep these days and as far as I know you can
even mount USB memory sticks via them.

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On 20 June 2013 03:19, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> Does anyone have one of these? After heading to the google-cave it looks
> like
> there were/are supported cards that should work in Solaris 9 and 10.
>
> http://www.motherboardpoint.com/pci-usb-card-ultra-10-a-t155966.html
>
> There are also Sun-branded cards out there. The p/n is 375-3140. They
> exist on
> eBay, but I wonder if anyone has one on a shelf collecting dust?
>
> My plan is once I get the E10K running is to give it a graphics head. I
> don't
> think this was ever done, and I know it was never a supported
> configuration. I
> have a PGX32 card I can use to drive the display. I figure that + USB + a
> type
> 6 keyboard (and a few looong cables) could make an interesting workstation
> if
> I get all 64 CPUs and 64G of RAM going. :D
>
> Of course, this is all predicated on my museum idea coming together, but
> that's another story for another day.
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