[rescue] Difference between U5/10?

[Bryan Gurney]

I'm pretty sure the UPA slot is on the board itself, and that the U10 is  
the only case that's high enough to accept a UPA card in the case.  If you  
look at the rear of the U10 case, there's 5 PCI slots (IIRC) that are  
parallel to the motherboard plane (therefore coming off of a riser card),  
but there's one slot that's perpendicular to the motherboard plane  
(therefore directly off of the motherboard).  This slot is the UPA slot.

So an Ultra 5 *COULD* take a UPA card, but only if you took out a hacksaw,  
or found a U10 case and PCI riser.

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:27:11 -0500, Patrick Finnegan  
<pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 October 2005 08:19, James Hartley wrote:
>> I was under the impression that the motherboards between the Ultra 5
>> and Ultra 10 were the same.  From what I have seen on this list, the
>> fastest CPU marketed for the U10 was 440MHz.  If this is all true, is
>> there anything preventing moving U10 mobo's back to a U5?
>
> No, in fact they used the same motherboards (look at the component lists
> on Sunsolve for them - they share the same system board part #s).
>
> Also, as I discovered, you can even use an old 375-0009 board from a
> first-gen 270MHz Ultra 5 and put any CPU - up to a 440MHz one - into
> it, as long as you flash the board to a newer PROM rev (no reason to
> use anything but the latest rev) before you swap the faster CPU in.
>
>> From what I can see, besides more plastic, the U10 offered four PCI
>> slots as opposed to three in the U5.
>
> That's on the riser card.  Using the U10's case and riser card also
> makes available the UPA graphics slot, and space for more internal
> drives.
>
> Pat