[rescue] IO board+ on e5000

Francois Dion francois.dion at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 16:24:09 CST 2005


On 12/15/05, Rox <rox at sunmuseum.org> wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2005 at 14:51, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> > You can't do 100MHz system bus speed in an E4000/E5000 - only the E3x00
> > and E4500/5500.  They'll just run at 83MHz.
>
> Unless, of course, you also change the centreplane... (in which case
> you can cross out E5000 and write E5500 on in crayon ;)  ... but then
> you are definitely in "Grandma's broom"* territory.

Well, I prefer the e5000 over the e5500 because of the shorter
cabinet. It's just the right size.

Francois



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