[SunHELP] SPARC 5 memory

[Paul Khoury]

I already knew this was comming, but I was wondering if there's any way I can
reinstall the kernel?  But since Sol 8 is faster, this is getting tempting also.

Paul

--Original Message Text---
From: Lund, Dennis
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:30:34 -0400

RE: [SunHELP] SPARC 5 memory 

Several years back I attempted to move SS2 (sun4c) drives to a SS5 (sun4m). 
These are different architectures and it did not work.  The SS5 did not like 
the sun4c OS build and would not boot.  Complaining about the sun4c architecture.  I had to re-install the OS for those 
drives to work in the 

SS5. 

Just something to watch out for. 

Dennis L. Lund 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Paul Khoury [mailto:pkhoury2 at loop.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 12:01 PM 
To: Gereon Stein; sunhelp at sunhelp.org 
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] SPARC 5 memory 


On Wed, 16 May 2001 16:35:07 +0200, Gereon Stein wrote: 
>Yes, sure. The SS5 has got SCA drive bays, requiring you to install 80pin SCA disk drives 
>internally (using rare and expensive mounting frames or fiddling with any kind of suitably 
>DIY fittings). 
>You may want to opt for not using internal disks but attaching your old drive externally, 
>or - what I've seen other people do - hook the narrow-SCSI drive to the CDROM connector if no 
>CDROM is installed. Requires slightly more "fiddling" to get it to stay in place, though. 
> 
Actually, the only internal drive I use now is one of those crappy old 212MB Maxtor 
drives (used strictly for the swap file), otherwise, I have 4 5.25" FH drives all external (I 
would hope with about 25 lbs of hard drives). 


>For a console, you may want one out of cg3, cg6 or S24 (the latter fits in a special slot 
>that only the SS5 has); or go for serial tty or course... whatever SBUS Framebuffer your 
>SS2 has should work, though. 
> 
The SS2 had a CG6.  I might keep that in there, as if I have more RAM, I might actually 
load the GUI, not sure yet.  I don't have it loaded now for security reasons, 
it just depends on what administration I do on it. 

>256Meg is the limit. The SS5 takes 8 or 32Meg DIMMs, 32Meg parts have to come first if both 
>sizes are used. $25 is amazingly cheap in SS5 terms. I'd buy them instantly for that price, 
>but few if any sellers on ebay.com are willing to ship internationally :-( 
> 
>Well, for an X-station, my SS5 just does with 64Megs anyway... (yes it runs Solaris 8) 
> 

What are the advantages of Sol 8 over 7? 

On both my DNS servers, I'm running Solaris 7 for x86 and SPARC (two different boxes), 
but both servers still have 2.6 Server 5/98 with all the latest patches applied periodically, 
and I'm pretty happy with 2.6 (no plans to change yet). 

Is that pretty reasonable? 


Paul 


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