[rescue] fastest Ultra 5 marketed by Sun?

Lord Doomicus lorddoomicus at mac.com
Sat Jul 21 10:51:45 CDT 2007


On Jul 21, 2007, at 11:27 AM, James Hartley wrote:

> On 7/21/07, Lord Doomicus <lorddoomicus at mac.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 21, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Michael-John Turner wrote:
>>> I think the U5 only officially supported up to 400Mhz CPUs, but
>>> there's no problem using the 440Mhz models (which were only
>>> officially supported in U10s). The main issue would just be
>>> cooling - as I'm sure you know, the U5 and U10 use exactly the
>>> same mainboard.
>>
>> My Ultra5 actually has the 440Mhz CPU and 1 Gig of ram in it.  To get
>> the Gig of ram to fit, I did have to pull out the floppy drive.
>>
>> You do need to make sure you have the latest firmware updates on the
>> Ultra5 or it may not work.
>
> Thank you both for your responses.  From what I have found, 3.31 was
> the last flash update released:
>
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?
> collection=PATCH&type=collections&queryKey5=106121&toDocument=yes
>
> Does this match your findings?

That is the version I have installed on my Ultra5.

Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
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