Subject: Re: booting a 4/330
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG, lucifer@dstc.edu.au>
From: Chris Phillips <chris@platform.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/03/1996 18:03:39
On May 2, 11:56pm, Greg Earle wrote:
> Subject: Re: booting a 4/330
 |> firstly. the monitor mode seems quiet bizzare, I am used to sun3 and
sun4[cm]
... {good stuff about 4/330 removed...}

 |> The machine has the bare 4/330 CPU VME board in it.  No other
devices/boards.
 |
 |Ouch.  8 Mb on-board?  That's gonna suck the royal weenie.  Keep your eyes
 |out on the Net for a VMEbus memory board.  You might get lucky and find a 32
 |Mb board out there for cheap.  That would be a big help ...

It will take 4MB simms ... so you can go to 32M on board, but you need
to re-jumper... somewhere I have the jumper settings...

The 4/330 I used to work with ran faster than SS2's on some mixes.
(Different cache organization ?)  It was a nice machine... but
the on-board scsi is pretty slow.

Chris

 |	- Greg
 |
>-- End of excerpt from Greg Earle




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