[Sunhelp] Question about SS5

[Scott Walker]

Thanks for your help James and uhhhh the other guy (I know I know). Is
there a cheap resource for used sbus cards?

* James Lockwood <james at foonly.com> [000322 20:55]:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Scott Walker wrote:
> 
> > Is there a good source for info a SS5 I got? Mainly, does it support
> > Full Duplex networking, Mine seems to have a 170Mhz processor? I thought
> > the highest was 110Mhz, Info on Classic machines would also rock, like
> > do thet support full duplex ethernet?
> 
> SparcStations with onboard 10mbps ethernet use the Lance (le) ethernet
> controller.  This is only capable of 10mbps half duplex.  You can of
> course add a 100mbps hme sbus card to get 100/full.  The 100mbps be
> ethernet only supports half duplex.
> 
> The 170MHz SS5 was the fastest one built, it has a TurboSparc CPU with
> 512K of L2 cache.  It's a bit faster than a SS20/71 for some things.
> 
> The SS5 (and Classic, I believe) service manuals are available at
> docs.sun.com.
> 
> -James
> 
> 
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