Article 4863 of alt.sys.sun: Path: matra.meer.net!news.spies.com!genmagic!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.xnet.com!news-admin From: "Steven E. Piette" Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,alt.sys.sun,aus.computers.sun Subject: Re: A 4/4xx or 6xx VME CPU in a 4/110 chassis... any thoughts? Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:42:32 -0500 Organization: Applied Computer Technology Lines: 39 Message-ID: <31BC7AA8.446B9B3D@simon.chi.il.us> References: <4p1i9s$5tkiyt@aztech.ba.md.us> <4p33g0$1ga@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <4p3epd$jvr@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <4p5k0m$2q3@saturn.tlug.org> <4p8nrj$mra@mail.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.187.228.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4c) Xref: matra.meer.net comp.sys.sun.hardware:42836 alt.sys.sun:4863 Casper H.S. Dik wrote: > > mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org (Mike Frisch) writes: > > > > I assume the 4/6xx is supported by Solaris 2.5? Is that fast > >SCSI-2 or just plain SCSI-2? What kind of performance does it offer > >compared to later SPARCstations? This sounds like a very interesting > >upgrade for my 4/110. > > It's plain SCSI. The board is a slower version (I think) of the SS10, > its predecessor. It does run newer hypersparc & SuperSPARC so it can be > made to run much faster than an 4/110. If you could get > such boards easily, is another question. > > It is supported in 2.5. > > Casper > -- > Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University > of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM > Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may > be fiction rather than truth. I seem to remember that there were two versions of the 4/600 CPU board. I can't find the documentation right now but I think one of the changes was upgrading from 5Mb/s SCSI2 to 10 Mb/s SCSI2 Fast. All I do remember off the top of my head was there were tow major differences between the orig version and the upgraded CPU board. I think this happened right about when the 600 started being offered with the SuperSPARC processors. Steve Piette Applied Computer Technology steve@simon.chi.il.US. 7N852 Phar Lap Drive (708) 513-6920 St. Charles, IL 60175-6868 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By sending unsolicited commercially-oriented e-mail to this address, the sender agrees to pay a $100 flat fee to the recipient for proofreading services.