Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:30:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap power-pc platform on eBay... Message-ID: <3DA88654.13C2EE71@mindspring.com> References: <48045.1034409300@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021012173502.GA17049@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 09:55:00AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > There are quite a number of these gadgets on eBay right now, they would > > probably make a cheap entry-level platform for powerpc work: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2059912083 > > Be careful buying one. I got one a year ago, and even though the ad said > "Ethernet" it was "Token ring Ethernet". :-( > > So I would be very careful to check the model number at the IBM site > before buying. The A53 has real ethernet. It doesn't come with an L2 cache (512K, optional add-on), and can't support a hard disk, so you will be booting diskless for the forseeable future. I'm also not sure if the BIOS flashed on board is OpenBoot compliant (in fact, I was pretty sure it was not, the last time I looked at it). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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