[SunRescue] 600MP os question

[GregoryLeblancGLeblanc at cu-portland.edu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Skidmore [mailto:thomas.skidmore at usa.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 12:16 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] 600MP os question
> 
> I have seen the person who had this question earlier, but in 
> my case I have a
> 600MP with four 40Mhz cypress CPU modules.

What revision of SM100s are these?  They need to be a later revision (check
the archives of this list for the exact revision, I think that it needs to
be -7 or higher) in order to do SMP.  Older revisions will only do AMP, and
only that on OLD OSs.

> Please give me an idea of what OS I could get running on this beast.  
> 
> It currently has SunOS and openwindows, but the system was in 
> the hands of
> somone who has mangled the heck out of it and I think that it 
> would probably
> be best to start from scratch.
> 
> There are no other VME cards in the unit, so VME support is 
> not crucial.  
> 
> what can I run on cypress CPUs?

Each of those CPUs should be maybe as fast as the CPU in a SS2.  I estimate
that an SS2 is less than 1/2 as fast as an SM41 (newer 40MHz MBUS module) in
my machines.  I don't know if RH works with those CPUs, but if it does, I'd
recommend running that as you don't care about VME.
	Grego