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Date:      Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:29:05 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>, sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: U1E and U2 are supported system?
Message-ID:  <20040830062905.GA6026@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <4132A4F7.1000701@samsco.org>
References:  <20040829.055715.02308074.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <20040829035525.GB5269@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <p0600207dbd581642ca41@[10.0.1.3]> <20040830020710.GA98170@dragon.nuxi.com> <4132A4F7.1000701@samsco.org>

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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:54:31PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> The Ultra1 variant that has a FEPS chip (Fast Ethernet/Parallel
> Port/Scsi is what that stands for, btw) is fully supported by FreeBSD.
> It is the same chip as is in the Ultra2.

This is the Ultra1E.

> The Ultra1 variant that has a Lance Ethernet chip and an ESP100 Fast
> SCSI chip (not wide) is not supported.  Let me explain:

This is the plain Ultra1.
 
> In reality, it's hard to get excited about putting this much work into
> a machine that is only 167MHz.

That's the _fast_ version. :-)  There are also 143 MHz Ultra1's.


> The Ultra2 is fairly useable ...

And is only US$20-100[*] on eBay.       [*] 2x 300mhz, 512MB, 2x 9GB

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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