I was looking at picking up an AXe motherboard, but I already have an Ultra
5.

Is there a big difference between the two?  Other that the fact that the AXe
can fit in a 1U case?

Also I cannot find PROM updates for the AXe.

Thanks,
Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Cusack" <fcusack@fcusack.com>
To: <rmk@rmkhome.com>
Cc: <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 9:11 PM
Subject: AXe vs AXi (was: Ultra 5 and Symbios SCSI)


> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 05:50:15PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> > I'm going to talk to the guy at www.apcom.com about selling bearbones
> > AXe systems. No disk, put in your own SCSI controller and disk, etc.
>
> I thought the AXe *board* was EOL.  Obviously, Sun still sells AXe
systems.
>
> <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/nep/hardware/boards/> doesn't
> have it listed and if you follow the link to "End of Life Products"
> it shows up there.
>
> Can someone describe the differences between AXe and AXi?
>
> /fc
>