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From: "Bryan Smith" <bryan.smith@telops.gte.com>
To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Ultra2 Creator Questions
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:34:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ultrasparc-91427461428955@msgid-missing> (raw)

Hello!

I'm about embark on a venture with Ultra Penguin.

My Ultra2 box is and Ultra2 Creator, with a 200 MHz processor and 384 megs 
of ram.
It has a 4 gig wide SCSI hard drive that uses a SCA connector.
I assume from my HP Netserver experience that this hot swappable?

Now, my questions are:
1.	Does Ultra Penguin 1.1.9 support the graphics card that is normally
installed in the Creator series?  It is my understanding, that earlier 
versions did not.
I do not know exactly with card I have.

2.	What type of SCSI host adapter is normally installed in the Creator 
series machines?
Do I have some type of RAID controller connected to my 4 gig drive, that 
the Ultra Penguin
does not yet support?  If so, will I need to install a standard SCSI host 
to the standard 
SCSI host that the CD and other standard scsi devices will hook up to?
(standard SCSI being not RAID)

3.	My box did not come with equipped with a floppy or cd-rom drive.
I am in need if a cheap source for these parts.
Will a standard 'ol PC style floppy work?
I understand about the firmware issue with the cd and 512k blocks,
but the other than being auto-eject, the floppy looks fairly standard 
issue for PCs.

I could cannibalize my SPARCstation2 for the floppy drive and CG6 graphics 
card, but being greedy and power hungry, I would like to have both of the 
up and running.
Currently, I planning to DL the Ultra Peguiin 1.1.9 to my SS2 box and then 
install across the wire to the Ultra2 box.

Any help or comments would be appreciated.
Thank you, and have a very Merry Christmas!

_________________________________
Bryan Smith
GTE Business Development & Integration
LAN Administrator - GTE North 
Internet: bryan.smith@telops.gte.com
Phone: 219-461-2054
Pager: 800-619-0429

             reply	other threads:[~1998-12-21 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-21 14:34 Bryan Smith [this message]
1998-12-21 21:46 ` Ultra2 Creator Questions Jakub Jelinek

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