Ultra2 Creator Questions

Ultra2 Creator Questions

[Bryan Smith]

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!

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Bryan Smith
GTE Business Development & Integration
LAN Administrator - GTE North 
Internet: bryan.smith@telops.gte.com
Phone: 219-461-2054
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Re: Ultra2 Creator Questions

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 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?

No, they are not. You'd need to buy some array which would give you those
capabilities. Nearly all Sun boxes use SCA connectors.
> 
> 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.

Yep, it supports it.
> 
> 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)

If it is Ultra2, then it has ESP (ie. NCR based SCSI HBA).

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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Linux version 2.1.130 on a sparc64 machine (3958.37 BogoMips)
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