Subject: SPARC Classic as an AFP server
To: Matthew Reilly <mjreilly@inch.com>
From: Erik Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/18/2000 14:43:28
The SPARC Classic is a sun4m architecture system in the "lunchbox"
configuration that one also sees for the IPC, IPX and LX. It has a 50
MHz microSPARC I CPU (the SS4 and SS5 are microSPARC II's) and maxes
out at 96MB of RAM, using six 72-pin 16MB parity SIMMs. It has a
built-in CG3, two Sbus slots, audioamd sound, 10base-T ethernet, and
Fast SCSI-2 "esp" controller.
If you run NetBSD on this box to be an AppleShare server, it will
work, with some caveats on "work"; the afpd in pkgsrc that comes with
NETATALK doesn't keep proper track of "file numbers" so that a
variety of things you'd expect with an AFP server don't quite work,
e.g. file aliases. Programs that reference files and folders by
number rather than name will get different results with each
different session.
If this is acceptable for what you're trying to do, then this box
will do the job just fine.
been there, done that,
Erik <fair@clock.org>