Re: Most hassle free sparc64 platform

I have an Ultra1 and an Ultra 2 here running rock solid as well... I have
some pretty old 'muscle' SPARCs.
The only shame is that OpenBSD/sparc does not support SMP yet.
I have one SS20 with 4x HyperSPARC modules 1mb cache each, with 512mb RAM,
73gb disk and 1 qfe... And I still cannot take the full advantage of it.

BTW,
You can get some V440, V490 on eBay very cheap tho. And they are pretty good
ones.

Regards,

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Simon Kuhnle <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 04:37:36PM +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
> > What is considered to be a relatively hassle free sparc64 box to run
> > OpenBSD 4.7/4.8 on?
> >
> > Requirements are fairly minimal: headless, MP if possible.  To
> > support: NAT via pf, apache, postfix, shell for 2-3 users.
> >
> > Was looking at Ultra30/60 as they are cheap here in the UK.  Any
> > comments/experiences to share?
>
> Ultra 60 works fine for me here, running 4.8-current
> (but releases should work, too, of course).
>
> I'm doing some IRC, Web, Mail and playing with Nagios.
>
> I have two 360 Mhz CPUs in it and serial works fine, too,
> with a DB9-to-RJ45-connector (though it must be 'crossed' IIRC,
> as some pins are weird, perhaps somebody else can tell more).
>
> So the headless part is no problem, but if you need a monitor,
> you should get a 13W3-to-VGA adapater.
>
> Works very nice and stable and for your requirements
> it should totally suffice IMHO, so go for it ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>


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