[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

[Lionel Peterson]

Apparently the V65x does not support Solaris 11 (Darn), so now I'm burning
a Solaris 10 1/13 Install DVD, and I'm hoping a USB DVD drive can boot this
beast.

I found I had 6x 2 Gig PC2100 ECC Registered RAM in my PE2650, I checked
Crucial and found that the V65x and PE2650 both require identical spec
memory, but both are listed as PC2700 on Crucial. I'm going to try a
Solaris install with the PC2700 RAM it came with, then try the PC2100 RAM
from the Dell...

I also found the PE2650 had 3x 146 Gig Drives, as well as another 73 Gig
Drive, so it looks like I'll have a nice compliment of drives & memory if
this all works out...

The journey continues...

Lionel


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, I opened the box - it's a Sun V65x (
> http://www.tcl.de/tcl/download/sun_pdf/datasheetsun_fireV65x_Server.pdf )
> dual processor, 2x 1 Gig RAM, one 72 Gig SCSI HD, one CD drive  and one
> floppy, along with 5 empty 1" drive trays (bought separately over 5 years
> ago, based on the eBay receipt in the box).
>
> I haven't powered it up yet, I need to shuffle some bits around to make
> room.
>
> I expect the CR2032 coin battery is dead, I have a replacement cell at the
> ready, but I want to power it on first.
>
> It has SIX PCI-X slots, dual NICs, and redundant power.
>
> I don't know (yet) if CPU is 2.8 or 3.2 GHz Xeon.
>
> It's really nice and shiny.
>
> I seem to recall I could swap RAM from a Dell PE2650 into this box, I have
> a nice PE2650 that ad lots of RAM, the V65x takes up to 12 Gig RAM, but the
> cost of going above 6 Gigs (6x 1 Gig) looks stupid expensive...
>
> I'll have another update after I power it up.
>
> Lionel
>
>
> On Monday, February 17, 2014, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On 02/17/14 11:53, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> > I have, for instance, just bumped into a new Sun dual Xeon x86 rack
>> server
>> > (from the Dell PowerEdge 2650-era) that I did little more than boot up
>> when I
>> > got it...
>>
>> I'd be interested in more details on that.
>>
>>
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