Subject: Re: U10 heart into an U5 body
To: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
From: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/24/2006 17:17:34
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> would it be possible to take the motherboard (+CPU, +RAM) from an Ultra10 and plug it into the case of an Ultra5 ?
> - because CPU is 100MHz faster and IDE bus is 66MHz rather than 33MHz (according to eBay and google's dmesg).
> - because it is easier to drop an U5 case in my room than an U10 one.

The FE handbook lists the same system board part numbers for both U5 and 
U10, so go for it.  (There may be NVRAM compatibility issues, depending 
on the specific system board models, so it would be best to keep the 
NVRAMs with the motherboards.)

Eduardo