From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 30 9:17:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC1C37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663F043E3B for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g8UGHPq2036770; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:17:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g8UGHPga036769; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:17:25 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mark Valentine Cc: Josef Karthauser , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spark 5. Message-ID: <20020930161725.GA36725@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Mark Valentine , Josef Karthauser , hackers@freebsd.org References: <20020930082839.GC4473@dragon.nuxi.com> <200209301604.g8UG4lOv064228@dotar.thuvia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209301604.g8UG4lOv064228@dotar.thuvia.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:04:47PM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: > > From: "David O'Brien" > > 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