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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:19:35 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        sparc@freebsd.org, Luke Hollins <lwh@pathcom.com>
Subject:   Re: Ultra 1
Message-ID:  <20030305061935.GA92645@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpn0ka4x6u.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <xzp3cm3coiq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.50.0303040745220.93132-100000@phoenix.zer0.net> <20030304180119.GA85594@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpn0ka4x6u.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:51:53PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes:
> > The difference between a U1 and a U1e is 1. NIC: 10/100Mbit hme(4) vs.
> > 10Mbit Lance, 2. fas wide scsi.  The U1e has the NIC and SCSI of a U2.
> > U1e (and U2) are supported for diskless only.  scottl is working on
> > fas(4) for u2/u1e.
> 
> The U of O has a bunch of old Ultras: plain Ultra 1s, at least one
> Ultra Enterprise 1, Ultra 1 Creators, Ultra 1 Creator3Ds, Ultra 5s and
> a handful of Ultra 10s.  The only ones with 10 Mbps NICs are the very
> oldest plain 1s and the Enterprise.  All the others have happymeals.
> I suspect the truth here is closer to "David's U1 has a Lance NIC and
> narrow SCSI controller" than to "all non-Enterprise U1s have Lance
> NICs and narrow SCSI controllers"

I never said "all non-Enterprise U1s" -- I carefully only spoke of U1 and
U1e, saying nothing about Creators.  I've never seen a U1e with only
10Mbit Lance Ethernet.  Since you have, I'd love to get the part number
of it so I can look it up in Sun's docs.

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