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From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
> Date: Mon 30 Sep, 2002
> Subject: Re: Spark 5.

> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:17:24AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote:
> > For FreeBSD you'd want an Ultra 1 at least - 13w3.com has a 170MHz model
> 
> Nope.  We don't support the U1 -- neither the Ethernet controller or the
> SCSI controller.  So you can't boot from any device.  An Ultra 1e
> (Enterprise) is moderately usable as it has HME Ethernet, which we do
> support so you can at least use the machine diskless.

Ah, thanks for that.  So, only PCI-based SCSI support?  Does that mean no
joy with an Ultra 2 either?

		Cheers,

		Mark.

-- 
Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk>       <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>
"Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."       Mark Valentine uses
"We're kind of stupid that way."   *munch* *munch*        and endorses FreeBSD
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