Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:17:25 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spark 5. Message-ID: <20020930161725.GA36725@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200209301604.g8UG4lOv064228@dotar.thuvia.org> References: <20020930082839.GC4473@dragon.nuxi.com> <200209301604.g8UG4lOv064228@dotar.thuvia.org>
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:04:47PM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: > > 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? Only diskless for Ultra 2. It isn't a issue of PCI vs. Sbus; but rather just one of controllers. If you happen to have an ISP1000 Sbus controller you could use that and have diskfull support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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