Subject: Re: Advice for rebuilding a stripped SS10(?) clone
To: Jon Buller <jon@bullers.net>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/17/2002 14:52:36
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hi,

On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 12:49:00AM -0700, Jon Buller wrote:
>
> and on the far right is a blank space for cutting out a 13W3 sized
> hole?

that hole is used for 13W3 connector for on-board framebuffer in SS10SX:

 http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SS10/CPU_Station_10SX.html
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> So going on the assumption that this is really an SS10, any
> suggestions what kind of MBUS board(s) I should get?

see http://mbus.sunhelp.org/

in short, near any mbus module would fit but you can't pair all of them
or use whole L2 cache.  (i have two SM81-2 modules in a SS10 and thus
using only 1MB of L2 cache on each cpu instead of 2MB).

> P.S. Thanks to Charles Carvalho for reminding me about docs.sun.com
> where I found these tiny little gifs that still leave me curious
> about the missing connectors on this board, but otherwise confirm
> a striking similarity of my board to an SS10 board.

you can also check:

 http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SS10/CPU_Station_10.html


regards,

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