[rescue] Re: Any difference between Sun E6000 and E6500?

[Gavin Hubbard]

Hi Nick

Are you sure? I have documentation that states the E6500 midplane runs at 84MHz because they couldn't get it to scale like the other Ex500 systems.

Regards,

Gavin


> The backplanes are slightly different, with the E6500 supporting the 9?MHZ
> (93 possibly?) and 100MHZ, whereas they both support 83mhz.
> 	Nick
> 
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Hi Lads
> > 
> > I've been steadily gathering parts and information for my Sun E6000 public shell project.
> > 
> > Something I haven't been able to clear up - are there actually any differences between the E6000 and E6500 server? I always assumed that the E6500 had a 100MHz Gigaplane, but it actually runs at 84MHz like the E6000.