I may be in this thread from earlier, don't remember.
Anyway, in the process of doing a new build on an Ultra 10. Had one before, but I decided I wanted to rebuild it for the hell of it.
Anyway, about all I remember is it has 256 MB of RAM (going to be increased), and runs a 3xx MHz processor (don't remember the exact number), with a 20 GB HD.
Looking to get another Sparc box of some sort, something faster hopefully, but it's on hold until I get my raise. Was thinking of doing something like an E250, but I have decided I'd rather have a dual proc workstation instead.
torradan wrote:Since not everyone visits us on irc, we're in the dark about some of the people's machines, and what goodies they have stuffed into them.
This thread would give us a nice feeler to know what people have, and narrowing down issues when they arise.
Ultra E2: sphynx
2X150MhZ
512Mb
1hme
1qfe
no video card... just console port attached to FreeBSD X86 laptop...
just installed 2.4.32 and having a hell of a time getting console to work ... last message:
INIT: no more processes left in this run level
then leaves me high and dry...
Thinking about a video card, since I have working (? i hope ?) screen...
also looking into another UE2 or "more modern" Sparc based acrhitecture...
First contact ever with Gentoo was on my Sparky...
SparcStation 20, 4xHypersparc 125 MHz, 256 MB RAM, can´t remember the HD specs just now, it´s been a while i had it booted. I was searching for an alternative to Solaris on this box (got it from eBay to experiment with non-x86 hardware) and i was going crazy finding a working Linux distro. All i could find where some old, no-longer-maintained distribution of SuSE an some other until i found Gentoo. As i said, my first contact with Gentoo, so it took some time to get the box up and running, but i finaly managed to do so and it still works.
Then came the Ultra2: 2x300 MHz, 768 MB RAM, 2x9.1 GB HD. Somewhat faster than old Sparky, so i first gave Solaris a try. But it was to slow for me, so now it hs a dual boot Solaris/Gentoo.
Last post in this thread was when I got my SparcStation 5. Wich sadly had to go Debian, due to 1Gb harddrive. I just got my Ultra5 last week wich is now happily running Gentoo.
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Ive had an Ultra 5 with 440mhz cpu 1gb ram and 2x 20gb ide hard-drives running gentoo web/mail/ftp/svn and some other stuff for quite a while now.
Just purchased a sun ultra wide scsi multipack with 6x9gb 10k scsi drives in it. Ive got a couple of scsi pci cards that should work ok but I was wondering whether it would be worth setting it up as a raid array (software or otherwise) - any opinions/advice on this??
I've got one Blade 100, 500MHz Sparc IIi, 640Mb RAM, 1x15Gb, 1x30Gb HDD, soon to be changed to a raid-1 configuration. Thats my personal machine.
I'm now setting up an Ultra 10 which has 512Mb RAM, 2x20Gb HDD's.
The setup process works well for doing raid-1 with the initial install, however there is a hole in the docs for doing LVM on raid-1 with the initial install. I especially want to do an install using EVMS to do a raid-1 with dynamic volume resizing (like LVM) with the initial install, however I find no docs what do ever in this direction.
I'm still mainly using my AMD machines because I can put more and bigger hard drives in there. One machine has 800Gb usable storage, 400Gb of which is raid-1 (4x200Gb HDD's in raid). Doing that in the Blade 100 isn't possible Maybe one day a Blade 1000 will come my way cheaply....
I was recently given an Ultra 10 with 440 Mhz proc and 256 MB of RAM and a E250 (what a BEAST!) with 2x??? MHz procs and ??? MB RAM. I've booted the U10 with the 2005.1 Sparc MBD and all seems well, aside from a cooling fan with failing bearings. I haven't yet booted the E250, as I don't have a key to switch it on yet and it's headless. My friend who rescued these from certain cannibalism is still looking for the key, but I'm sure I can figure something out if it doesn't show up.
Speaking of such machines, I tried to install gentoo on a V440 (4 Sparc IIIi's, 16Gb RAM, 4x73Gb scsi drives, 2xqlogic FC cards for a 27Tb storage array), but the installation (boot from cd actually) aborted quite early on before I even got a shell prompt. Can't remember the exact reason though because the try was about 6 months ago, and I needed to get Solaris 10 onto the machine.
1 x u10 = USparcIIi 440Mhz, 512 ram, 40GB Hd
1 x u60 = Dual USparcII 300Mhz, 512 ram, 2 x 9GB Hd
2 x 450 =
1 = Dual UsparcII 400Mhz, 2GB ram, 1 x 18Gb Hd (got more coming)
1 = Quad UsparcII 300Mhz, 1GB ram, 1 x 18Gb Hd (got more coming)
Got a very good deal on a Netra t1125 (same board as an Ultra 60):
- 2x440mhz
- 1024mb RAM
- 1x9GB, 1x18GB
- Second Ethernet card
- and some sort of 4-way multiport serial card (with rj-style jacks)
Got one SPARC machine so far (more to come when the central information service of my University upgrades some )
This is the configuration of my current box:
Ultra Enterprise 2
2 x UltraSPARC II 296 MHz
1.5 GB RAM
2 x HappyMeal Ethernet
1 x Fujitsu 9.1 GB SCSI Disk
1 x Diskarray attached (16x8GB ~ 120GB RAID5)
1 x Sun SOC
1 x Creator graphics
1 x 21 inch Sun CRT attached
Running gentoo-sources-2.6.13
This machine serves as mailserver on the external interface and samba fileserver on the internal hme. The 21 inch monitor is a waste for this purpose, but as I do not have a console device, it's the only way to access the machine when ethernet goes down.
-- Student of Telematics at University of Technology in Graz, Austria
-- Running Linux on x86(gentoo), PPC(gentoo), ARM(familiar), SPARC64(gentoo), Alpha(gentoo), MIPS(gentoo) and soon HPPA
my current collection, running a mixture of debian, gentoo, openbsd, netbsd and solaris:
Sun Ultra 1E
Sun Sparcstation 20 w/ a 150 mhz Ross HyperSparc Cpu
Sun Sparcstation 20 /w 2 180 mhz Ross HyperSparc Cpus
Sun Netra T1 105 w/ Sun d130 external array
Sun Sunfire v100
Sun Sparcstation Voyager
Sun Javastation (Krups)
Sun Sparcstation IPC (2 of these)
Sun Sparcstation LX
Sun Sparcengine Ultra Axi
Sun Sparcengine Ultra Axe
Tadpole Sparcbook 3gx (2 of these)
Tadpole Sparcbook 2 currently broken
Tadpole/RDI Ultrabook 1
Tatung Sparcengine AXDP motherboard(Oem sparc board w/ ATX connector, still waiting for parts on this one)
System - Sun Ultra 60
CPU - 2 x 450 w/4MB Cache each
RAM - 2 GB
HDD - 2 x 18GB
Frame Buffer - Creator3D
Kernel - 2.4.something - latest at time of writing this
Did have an Ultra 5 with a 400 chip but the cpu faulty and was giving me network nightmares so i thought an upgrade was in order. Not bad for a plain old internet browser eh?
Ultra2
CPU - 2 x 200MHz UltraSPARC I
RAM - 640MB
DISK - 18, 18, 18 in external 6pack
Ultra2
CPU - 2 x 168MHz UltraSPARC I
RAM - none
DISK - whining 2GB internal that won't spin up (burial time)
I think they both have Creator cards in them.
The 2.4 kernel installed without a hitch from the Universal CD. But I cannot emerge the kernel because of a "missing keyword" error. It doesn't tell me which keyword is missing so I'm looking for it. If anyone finds my keyword, please send it my way. I don't have any modules yet, so it's not a lot of fun right now.
I got myself an Ultra 10 over Christmas, 440 mhz, 512 mb ram, ATI framebuffer. Presently it has a 20 gig disk in it. I've been plesantly surprised that with X, xfce, gaim, conky, firefox, a handful of xterms, and a build going that it regularly runs at half or less ram usage and hasn't touched swap. I was told that X would be a bad idea on it but clearly that person didn't know what they were talking about as it runs perfectly fine for me. When I have some spare cash to throw at it I'm thinking of maxing out the ram with another 512 and getting some larger disks. Does anyone offhand know how large of a drive the Ultra 10s can hold? I've got the latest bootprom which I believe is 3.31.
Maybe one day a Blade 1000 will come my way cheaply....
