Subject: Prestoserve NFS "accelerator" ?
To: Marc Gutschner <Marc.Gutschner@triplan.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 09/14/1998 10:38:45
[ "funky" card]
They're in the right slot to be configured as PrestoServe and the
description matches. If all else, fails, try powering on
a machine and typing
>> cnfg
or
>> cnfg 3
to see what's there.
NetBSD doesn't support the PrestoServe board, since we've never have
one to test with. If we did, adding config-time support would be
straighforward. Actually doing the acceleration via write-to-NVram
would be trickier.
>Oh, while at it: I read on the port-pmax Homepage that a /240 can be
>upgraded to a /260 with a "daughter-board". Am I correct to assume
>that if the CPU is on a seperate module that the system has been
>upgraded ?
No, the CPU is always on a daughterboard on the ioasic machines. If
the PROM says the CPU is a KN03, it's a 240; if it says KN05, it's a
260. The other way to tell is to open the box. If the heatsink on the
daugherboard is a stack of 3 circular radiators, it's a /240; if it's
got a bolted-on silver heatsink with vertical fins -- looking like a
heatsink for a model-aeroplane engine -- it's a /260.