Subject: Re: Hardware questions
To: Don Yuniskis <auryn@gci-net.com>
From: David Laight <David.Laight@btinternet.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/26/2001 20:00:41
Searching ebay for 'sbus' does quite well.

(I was surprised to find a sun sbus token ring card - looks like a clone
of the one ICL did....)

I believe that all the 10M ethernet sbus cards are basically the DMA+/DMA2
tied to a lance.

The 'forth' code will identify what is actually present on the card - as
the h/w always has a scsi interface...

(Oh yes, the ICL sbus etherbet cards don't contain enough forth to keep
openboot happy.  They only define one or two words - which aren't even
the ones openboot wants to identify the card....)

But on a small sun (eg ss10 etc) where the sbus slots are at fixed
addresses, they can be made to work.

    David 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Don Yuniskis <auryn@gci-net.com>
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
Cc: <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Hardware questions


> >Darren Reed said:
> >In some email I received from Don Yuniskis, sie wrote:
> >[...]
> >> The bigger (SPARC related) issue is finding a source of
> >> appropriate SBUS NIC's.
> >
> >If it hasn't been said before, www.ebay.com
> 
> 
> The problem IMO with eBay for *me* is knowing *exactly*
> what to search for (hence this discussion :>) and then
> hoping the seller knows exactly how to describe what
> he has!  :-(
>