[TriLUG] Red Hat 7.3 - pricing & alternatives

[John F Davis]

Hello

Well, a dead nvram means it doesn't keep its settings when its turned off.
That's the problem I have.
Whereas a dead prom means it can't boot period.  You can probably get a
replacement nvram from mouser.
A replacement prom requires a working prom to be copied.  Which is why you
have ebay flooded with ss10/20 2.25 proms.  Somebody
bought one, copied it a dozen times and then setup shop on ebay.

If you are interested, I have two sparcs in my closet gathering dust.

A sparc 10 with dual 40mhz cpus.  I removed the memory and put it in my
sparc 20.  I think the 10 only has 32 or 64 meg now.
A sparc 5 110Mhz with TGX card.  It has 256 or 192 Megs of memory.

I dont want to give these away, since each one makes a good server.   Make
a reasonable offer and they are yours.

One more thing to keep in mind about ss5 and ss20's.  They can use newer
SCA-2 hard disks in compatible mode.  My ss20 has
a brand new LVD 9GB disk in it.  I paid $60 for it.  Five year warranty,
10K RPM, 1MB cache.  Gotta love it.  If I were to buy a older SCA-1 drive,
I would pay that much (or more) and it would only be a 2 GB disk.


JD


Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney <alchemist at darkcanvas.com>@trilug.org on
05/07/2002 10:17:55 AM

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On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 10:13, John F Davis wrote:
> Get somebody who has a working ipc and have them dupe the prom in a prom
> programmer.

That would rule. Although I think it's just a dead prom battery, and
finding a new chip is a bit of a hassle.

> Or, find someone who has a working IPC they aren't using such as me.  I
got
> it from Andrew Perrin (right?).

That would rule even more *grin*

> Let me know and I will bring it to the meeting on Thursday.

Please do. I want to play with some older sparcs, but working hardware
is becoming a problem.

If I can get both working, I may start playing with beowulf or similar
stuff *grin*

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