[rescue] Sun2 update

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jul 9 18:26:55 CDT 2002


On July 9, jwbirdsa at picarefy.com wrote:
> >> Does it make a difference in which slot a card is put?
> >
> >  Nope.  This is Multibus-I...straight-through bussing as far as I
> >recall.
> 
>    Yes it does, for the same reason that it makes a difference in Sun's VME
> chassis: the memory is on a separate bus which is not bussed all the way
> straight through.

  Ahh sorry, I was thinking more in terms of card *ordering*...been a
while since I've played with a sun2.  I ran a 2/170 as my home
fileserver a *long* time ago (1989 or so)...sure was a capable
machine.

  Hmm, perhaps I should fix that. 8-)

      -Dave

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