Solaris 7 complaining about compatibility on Sparc 10 MP

2007-12-25 10:36:00

        Okay, here's the summary on the bad news about my little Ross mbus

module, as quoted from a dialogue I had with Casper Dik:

"Toby A. Rider" wrote:

>

> Yup, it's got two CPU's on it and some cache. I have a bad feeling that

>it's an SM100. That's bad, because those are slow, lame boards that were

>for the 600-series.. Maybe you can confirm this. The part numbers on the

>mbus connector: 3701388029052 underneath that it had 40 01 9235 -08 Rev.

> On the underside it has 370-1388. The board is stamped with CYM6002K.

>Thanks so much for your help.

"Casper Dik" wrote:

Yep, 370-1388 is the SM100 module; two CPUs, 4MHz. Officially only

supported in the Sun 4/6x0 VME/Sbus systems but they also

work in SS10s/SS20s.

Support was removed from Solaris 2.6 together with all otehr 4/6x0

support

though you could get the beasts to run with SuperSPARC modules

and some kernel patches. Rev -08 are teh only ones that run SMP in

Solaris 2.1-2.5.1

Casper

Thanks to:

Casper Dik

Michael Hanson

Scott Iseminger

The original question:

> Hello Fellow Administrators,

>

> I just built another Sparc 10, I put a Ross module in this one, it's

> part number is: MIL07/9251. When it boots, it shows up as a Sparc 10 mp

> (2x602b) with prom 2.25 and 128 megs of ram.

> When I go to install Solaris 7 on it, it complains "This version of

> Solaris does not support this hardware". I did some searching around on

> the Sun site, the archives for this list and the newgroups to try to

> find some info. on whether this Ross module is supported or if possibly

> something is weird with the box.

> I decided maybe to try installing Solaris 2.6 on it to see if maybe it

> was supported under 2.6 but one of my co-workers borrowed the 2.6 CD.

> Grrr... :-) So I installed Linux on there, and it likes the processors

> on the Ross module just fine. This only tells me that the hardware works

> fine. What I really want on there is Solaris.

> Does anyone know of any compatibility issues with the particular

> hardware setup on this box, and if so, what the workarounds are? Thanks

> alot!

>

> Toby A. Rider

> Systems Administrator - Unix

> Magnet Interactive - http://www.magnet.com

> "Changing The Way You Work On The Web"

>

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