[rescue] Unknown Sun SBus card "sbus expansion"

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Nov 7 14:18:58 CST 2002


On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:16:26PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:00:36PM -0000, P Nutton wrote:
> > One of the items is an SBus module, sealed and unused still in a Sun
> > delivery box (alas unmarked). The business end appears to have a SCA like
> > ribbon connector and is marked "SBus expansion". Can't see any sun part
> > numbers on it, but it is marked "Sun Microsystems Inc". Any idea what it is?
> 
> Save that.. Its unobtainum. 
> 
> Goes with an external SBus expansion chassis that has a SS1/SS2
> formfactor.

I'd be happy to contribute the chassis, but he didn't say if he had the
cable, which I don't have.  I believe Sambo had been trying to clone the
cable, but based on the silence, I don't think he got anywhere.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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