From: Stuart Powell (stuart_at_yorkshirepudding.com)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 18:49:50 CET
From: "Stuart Powell" <stuart@yorkshirepudding.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:49:50 -0600 Message-ID: <HAEAICFGOEPNHBCFMHKPMENDENAA.stuart@yorkshirepudding.com> Subject: [suse-sparc] Need help with Sparc10 hardware
Hello, everyone.
I've been a SuSE user for quite some time now, but only ever tried to run it
on a Sparc once a couple of years ago without much success. Well, the time
has come to try again. Unfortunately, my background is firmly rooted in
x86-land, so I'm looking for some help.
I have just received four Sun Sparc10 machines from a client who has finally
migrated all of their systems away from these older machines. However, they
contain a lot of parts that are unfamiliar to me. I believe one is a single
SuperSparc, one is a single HyperSparc, another seems to be a dual
SuperSparc and the last looks like a quad SuperSparc. I even have a spare
CPU module just hanging around. They contain a variety of video cards, i.e.
GX, SGX and TurboGX. I also have a quad ethernet card which I don't know
the speed of, 10MB v 100MB, and one also contains a RAID card, allegedly.
And what is an MII connector for, and why do I have one on the 100MB NICs ?
The problem I have is that I know so little about Sun hardware that I don't
know how the different items compare, e.g. which of the vidcards is
best/fastest/highest colours/highest resolution, and is the quad SuperSparc
going to be faster then the single HyperSparc ? I don't even know how to
find out the actual part numbers yet, so I don't even know what to search
for on Google or the Sun website. I don't even know the speed of the
different CPUs. Pretty pathetic, huh ?
Would any of you be willing to help me figure out what I have and point me
to where I can find more info about this stuff ? I'd be more than happy to
keep it off list if everyone prefers it that way.
What I'd ultimately like to do with these machines is have one as a desktop
machine to play with, and then use the others as various utility servers,
e.g. firewall, ftp server, VPN connector, lightweight web server, webmail
frontend and the like. That's why I'd like to know a little more about the
hardware, so that I can tailor each machine by switching the parts to make
it more suitable for its intended role.
Thanks,
Stuart.
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