Re: [suse-sparc] Ross Dual 100Mhz modules

From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@uzix.org)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 15:51:55 PST

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    Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:51:55 -0800
    From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@uzix.org>
    Message-ID: <20020301155155.J30543@uzix.org>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Ross Dual 100Mhz modules
    

    * Donald Knecht <donk@hastys.net> [020301 09:25]:
    > i've seen a guy selling a lot of these on ebay,
    > prices have been low, i.e. under 100.00 .......
    > is there anything wrong with these?
    > it looks like you can only get one in a sparcstation20..?

    You'll want to read http://mbus.sunhelp.org/ to get a better idea of
    what's out there. At the bottom of the "Modules" section, they have a
    "Relative Performance" chart that might be helpful.

    There are some Ross modules out there you _don't_ want. One example
    that I hear bad things about is the "SM100" which has two 40MHz CPUs on
    one card... I've read about people putting two of these (for 4 CPUs) in
    their system and expecting a workhorse, but ending up with a snail.

    Do your research and figure out if it's really worth the price... and
    you can get two of 'em in an SS20 since there are two MBUS slots... as
    long as it's not so big that it doesn't allow for a second.

    I'v'e personally got a pair of SM71s (SuperSPARC-II) in my SS20, and I'm
    happy with them.

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