[SunRescue] What 4/xxx vme boards have on-board esp scsi?

[BSD Bob]

> The 4/110 doesn't even have "normal" esp controller, it's a weird mutant
> thing.

Ahh, I have heard the ``wierd'' name bandied about, but am not sure of what
exactly it means.  All I know is that the OpenBSD port works fine out of
the box on the 4/110, but dies on the 4/260 with scsi timeout errors.
I think James Birdsall was having similar problems.  NetBSD does the same
thing on the sun3 scsi controllers.  It also happens on the sun3 line
sych as the 3/xxx machines with sun3 controllers.

Can you add some info as to what ``wierd'' is?

> > What specific cpu boards would folks recommend me to look for in VME sun4
> > boards for a little more horsepower than the 4/110 board?
> 
> 4/300.  Faster (25MHz), fairly easy to expand (has 8 SIMM slots on board
> that can take 1MB or 4MB and you can find 48 SIMM expansion cards).

The 4/300 sounds like a board I should check out......

Now, where to dredge one up on a beerbellies budget!

But, even a spare 4/110 board would do, since that one runs it
nicely, albeit a little slowly.

> Of course, you could always go for broke and try to find a 4/600 board.

Well, that one has not walked across my sight path, yet.....(:+}}...

Someday.....

Bob