[rescue] Ross sparcplug

[Koyote]

/me looks at his old mid tower scsi enclosure with 4x5.25 bays and 50pin external to internal already in place.

I wonder if my friend who had a line on these ever made out with them?

On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 10:46:38PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> > > I just found what I think is a 166MHz hypersparc powered Ross Sparcplug
> >
> > Good luck getting the support software for it;
> 
> What support software?  It really is a fully-independent sun4m-class
> workstation in a full-height 5.25" form-factor.  It has an Ethernet port,
> a Sun keyboard port, and two serial ports.  It has SCSI (external only, of
> course), and can boot unmodified Solaris 7 (and probably later) under its
> own power.
> 
> The software that Ross shipped was merely an X server and a better serial
> terminal emulator than Hyperterminal.
> 
> Now, the thing that you -would- have to worry about is the port break-out
> board.  There isn't enough room on the back for all the ports, so there
> are only three: Power, SCSI, and everything else.  The "everything else"
> port is the one to worry about, as it's probably not documented, and the
> system is of limited utility without any sort of a console or network
> connection.
> 
> However, if the breakout board is included, it really is a nice sun4m box
> in a tiny form factor.  You get 1 sbus port, 1 mbus port, 4 DIMM slots, 1
> SCSI bus, and the usual compliment of sun4m goodness.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Patschke
>    > Can you SysAdmins tell me what might go on in a typical day?
>    Hours of endless frustration punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
>                                  --Saul Tannenbaum (in the Monastery)
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