[Sunhelp] Ultra 5 with a SUNPCI

[Mike Klug]

Thanks guys.  I was just looking for some good info on it.  Is it good is, 
it bad kinda thing.  I was looking for a good solution for a work 
environment where i need the speed of UNIX troubleshooting and the 
compatibility of windows for Windows Apps.  U guys definitely gave me what 
i was looking for

Mike Klug

At 02:15 PM 6/29/00 -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Mike Klug wrote:
>
> > I don't know if this is the appropriate forum to discuss this item, but i
> > am looking at getting a Sun ULTRA5 and adding a SUNPCI.  I am looking for
> > more information then sun has on that product.  do you guys know of any
> > good websites that would have this info.
>
>What are you looking for?
>
>With a recent version of the software I have found them to be quite solid
>and good performers.  The only real gotcha is that communicating from the
>card to the host system via the "network" is painful, you must define an
>external router that bounces the packets back.
>
>You can upgrade them to K6-500's with a regular chip and a jumper change.
>Quite speedy.  Video update speed is the only thing that feels even
>slightly slow to me, but that can be improved by using an external monitor
>off of the VGA plug on the SunPCi card or by using a fast accelerated UPA
>framebuffer (Creator/Elite).
>
>Max onboard RAM is 256MB, there are 2 DIMM slots that take regular PC100
>JEDEC DIMMs.
>
>-James
>
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