Subject: Re: What to get?
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/29/1995 17:46:57
	I'm running -current on two 4/370 (4/300) machines here.

	The esp driver chokes if you try to access more than one scsi
	device (I have 2 old scsi drives in transit to Theo for him to
	look into that :), but apart from that they run fine (I've had
	40 users on the 56Mb one (currently down due to a PSU failure :()

	The 4/300 takes 8x1Mb or 8x4Mb on the motherboard, and can cope with
	either a 3U or a 9U expansion memory board.
	The 3U takes {8,16} x {1,4}Mb and
	the 9U takes {8,24,48} x {1,4}Mb

	I dont know about memory on the 4/100 & 4/200 serious I'm afraid :)	

	dhrystones (NetBSD-1.0A/sparc) on sun4/300 : 15110

	<Irrelevant-drivel>
	They run a locally grown BBS system (mono.city.ac.uk), currently
	on NetBSD sparc/i386 & sun3 (hopefully vax sometime soon too :)
	</Irrelevant-drivel>

	Good luck!

		David /abs

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On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> > I have a chance to upgrade my Sun3 to a Sun 4.  Which of the following
> > will work with NetBSD?
> > 
> > c 501-1206   3/200 cpu                                  
> > c 501-1237A  4/110 CPU (XX SIMM slots)                 
> > c 501-1274   4/200, 1 slot (replaces 3/200)           
> > c 501-1316A  4/300 CPU (XX SIMM slots)               
> 
> I know for sure that the 4/110 works, and I'm almost 100% sure the 4/200
> and 4/300 do.  The 4/110 isn't much faster than my 3/60. :-)  Well, I do
> about 5300 dhrystones (v2.1) on the 3/60, and about 8800 on the 4/110.
> I would say go for the 4/300.. :-)
> Oh, and the SCSI on the 4/110 doesn't seem to be working yet.
> 
> -Andrew
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