From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Sep 4 9:20:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C13E37B408 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:20:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5BC43E4A for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbsd@pacbell.net) Received: from atlas ([64.160.45.6]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H1X00JL19DWEJ@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 09:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 09:20:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Subject: Re: Sun AXi boot success In-reply-to: <20020904143637.F96461@ida.interface-business.de> X-X-Sender: mikko@atlas.home To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Message-id: <20020904090938.R69871-100000@atlas.home> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > [I'm currently not yet subscribed to this list, so please keep me > Cc'ed.] > > Just out of curiosity, i downloaded Jake's ISO image, and gave it a > try on a basically already retired Sun AXi based workstation here. > It worked! Yup. Works fine. Got one here too. > The Sun AXi is an OEM mainboard once produced by SME, with the idea in > mind that PC resellers could package this into a PC/ATX form factor > case, and ship reasonably cheap UltraSPARC-powered machines. Years > ago, our company bought such a machine just for evaluation. I don't > know what happend to the Sun AXi line afterwards, and unfortunately > currently can't seem to find the (quite fine!) hardware manual > provided by Sun either. Google -> "SparcEngine AXi OEM Technical Manual". First hit is: . Scroll down to the AXi (below all the Netras) and get the PDF. > The machine is a PCI-based one with an on-board dual-channel Symbios > Logic SCSI controller (IMHO a 53c876), and a 335 MHz UltraSPARC IIi > CPU. The VGA seen below is not on-board, it's been installed into a > PCI slot. Mine is 440MHz. Actually, I have two, but I fried the on-board scsi on the slower (360MHz) one, so now it is a door stop (with 512M memory). I don't suppose anybody has a sparc bootable (openfirware) scsi card laying around? $.02, /Mikko Mikko Tyolajarvi___________________________________________mikkot@pacbell.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message