Subject: Re: Problems with quad ethernet card
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org, port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/03/2002 15:07:49
>>> (because I own an Ultra-1 Enterprise)
>> That would more accurately be referred to as a UE1, as in Ultra
>> Enterprise 1.  [...]  IIRC, the "Enterprise" bit simply means that
>> the machine is configured [differently]
> For the Ultra 1 machines, this isn't quite right.  The Enterprise
> models are the same as the Creator models, except that they shipped
> without a video card.  Ultra 1 machines (no Enterprise or Creator)
> have 10MBit ethernet, Fast SCSI-2, and 3 SBus slots.  The
> Creator/Enterprise models have 10/100Mbit Ethernet, Fast-Wide SCSI-2,
> 2 SBus slots and 1 UPA slot, for a creator graphics card.

This is a happy coincidence: I was just about to send a note out to ask
what the difference between an Ultra 1 and an Ultra Enterprise 1 is
(because I have a line on getting one cheap, and wanted to know how
much of a pain support would be).

So, from NetBSD's point of view, what's the difference?  Different
network, different SCSI, one SBus slot traded for a UPA slot, is that
it?  In particular, if some of the hardware got supported later than
the rest, when did the various support bits go in?  It'd be a pain to
pick up the machine only to find that it can't run the same version as
the rest of the house machines.

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