From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 12 13:31:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B967337B401; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B53B43E9C; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0083.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.83] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 180Suz-0003Cj-00; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:31:25 -0700 Message-ID: <3DA88654.13C2EE71@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:30:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap power-pc platform on eBay... References: <48045.1034409300@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021012173502.GA17049@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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