[Sunhelp] 4 Ross cpus in an SS10.

[Nicholas Dronen]

Thanks for the responses, folks.  Is there an official
document I can refer to in order to get my money back
from this fellow?  Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Nick Dronen

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:23:43PM -0700, Greg wrote:
> > I just bought two Ross CPU cards on ebay.  I'm not very
> > knowledgeable about Sun hardware, but the guy I bought
> > them from claimed they're compatible with an SS10.  I
> > installed them on a working SS10 and attempted to boot.
> > 
> > At boot time the CPUs show up as Cypress CY605s.
> 
> I wouldn't recommend those and, contrary to what the seller claimed,
> they are not "supported" in SS10's (though they will boot).  A couple
> of 40MHz SuperSPARCs would probably be a better choice.
> 
> > 	This hardware platform is not supported by this release of Solaris.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> If you really want to use processors not supported in an SS10
> you'll need to use an older version of Solaris that supports
> that processor.  Support was removed in a relatively recent
> release (7?  8?).
> 
> -greg