Re: Weitek Power uP Processor
There is a revision number on the chip, I believe it might be the manufacture
date. My SPARC 2 is "9535" and works OK. The earliest revision that works
is "9518" or higher.
Hope that helps.......
This is not an ad but we sell them too....(www.rave.net)
Tad
"Georges A. Tomazi" wrote:
> Tad,
>
> At 13:01 29/01/00 -0500, Tad Bilby wrote:
>
> > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 05:36:17PM +0100, Georges A. Tomazi wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if someone ran successfully "slink" or "potato" on an IPX
> > > > box with a Weitek Power uP processor ? Just wanted to be sure before
> > buying
> > > > it, as I've seen in the Usenet news a message from someone having trouble
> > > > booting his SPARC/Linux system since he made that upgrade.
> > >
> > > I have run slink and potato on my Sparc Station 2 w/Weitek Power-UP...
> > > It seems to be OK, it was quite awhile ago that that CPU caused problems
> > > from what I've read.
> >
> >You have to have the right revision of the Weitek, can't tell you what the
> >right
> >one is until I get back to work.
> >The later revisions work great.
>
> What do you mean by "later revisions" ? Do you have a date or a reference
> number ? There is a hardware broker advertising on the net a second hand
> Power uP for $100, while a brand new is about $195. So to make sure to get
> the right one a revision date/number would be very helpful.
>
> BTW, I experienced a while ago the performance increase on an IPX running
> Solaris 2.5, but what about Linux ? Is it really worth buying that upgrade ?
>
The most significant increase in performance comes from going from
a 4m arch to the 4u arch. (ie SS10 to Ultra series)
It was worth it for me for the price. If you max out the RAM with
a DataRam expansion board to 128MB and the Weitek it is definitely
usable and faster.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Georges
>
> --
> Georges A. Tomazi <gt@4js.com>
> Four J's Development Tools
> [http://www.4js.com/]
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
--
Tad Bilby
Rave Computer Assoc.
800-966-7283
Reply to: