Re: SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?
Thus spake Erik Steffl (steffl@bigfoot.com):
> I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, the
> problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on sort of
> garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am not sure
> which)).
Good rescue. The config defaults in any recent 2.2 series kernel
(definitely go with 2.2.19) should be sane, you'll probably want to build
some things as modules instead and remove some of the higher end defaults
that do not pertain to your setup and/or needs.
SS5's come with the following:
a TI MicroSPARC II 70, 85, or 110 MHz or a Fujitsu TurboSPARC 170Mhz.
It takes 8 MB or 32 MB fast page mode 5V, 168 pin JEDEC DIMMs, 8 slots for
a total of 256MB.
Can accept two 50pin (narrow) SCA hard disks using a special drive sled.
Be careful though, things can get very toasty in there if you use modern
speedy disks.
A fast SCSI HBA (aka scsi2). Should be an ESP(something), they use an NCR
chip, usually NCR53C9XF.
The audio is a CS4231 chip, you may need a special cable to use this, I
forget.
The NIC should be a sunlance, which is a 10bt. Some systems may sport
a SunSwift card. This gives you another SCSI bus and ethernet interface.
There's many framebuffers for this and any other sbus sparc. You'll
probably have a TGX or GX.
Hope this helps. I can elaborate further, if ya need it.
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