Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 09:20:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikkot@pacbell.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun AXi boot success Message-ID: <20020904090938.R69871-100000@atlas.home> In-Reply-To: <20020904143637.F96461@ida.interface-business.de>
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > [I'm currently not yet subscribed to this list, so please keep me > Cc'ed.] > > Just out of curiosity, i downloaded Jake's ISO image, and gave it a > try on a basically already retired Sun AXi based workstation here. > It worked! Yup. Works fine. Got one here too. > The Sun AXi is an OEM mainboard once produced by SME, with the idea in > mind that PC resellers could package this into a PC/ATX form factor > case, and ship reasonably cheap UltraSPARC-powered machines. Years > ago, our company bought such a machine just for evaluation. I don't > know what happend to the Sun AXi line afterwards, and unfortunately > currently can't seem to find the (quite fine!) hardware manual > provided by Sun either. Google -> "SparcEngine AXi OEM Technical Manual". First hit is: <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/nep/docs/>. Scroll down to the AXi (below all the Netras) and get the PDF. > The machine is a PCI-based one with an on-board dual-channel Symbios > Logic SCSI controller (IMHO a 53c876), and a 335 MHz UltraSPARC IIi > CPU. The VGA seen below is not on-board, it's been installed into a > PCI slot. Mine is 440MHz. Actually, I have two, but I fried the on-board scsi on the slower (360MHz) one, so now it is a door stop (with 512M memory). I don't suppose anybody has a sparc bootable (openfirware) scsi card laying around? $.02, /Mikko Mikko Tyolajarvi___________________________________________mikkot@pacbell.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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