[rescue] Wanted: SparcStation 20 and/or Parts

Mark Benson md.benson at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 09:22:05 CST 2011


On 24 Nov 2011, at 15:08, mail at catsnest.co.uk wrote:

> On a side note i did buy 2 SUN Ross Twin 125 Mhz 1024k for mine and what i
> was told was the FW chips for them.
> But could never get them to work, im guessing as i was sent 4 "FW" chips
> labeled "1/4" "2/4" "3/4" "4/4" that they were not what i was told!
> I still have the CPU's and the SS20 but have no idea what FW/ Bios chips i
need or where to get them from.

IIRC Quad ROSS CPUs may need a different boot PROM (wether it was a flash or a
new chip I don't know) depending on which they are - second hand knowledge and
a bit hazy, sorry.

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