[rescue] Found an Axil 255 (SPARCstation 5 upgrade for SS1/1+/2)

[Michael Dombrowski]

 That's a SparcStation 5 clone, correct? Does it use a Sun motherboard or actual third party? Great find.
I've always loved the clone machine. My first Sun was a Solbourne SS2 clone because it was significantly cheaper than a real SS2. I have a couple of running Ebay searches for various clones, but they seemed to have significantly dried up. 

mike


    On Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 09:35:24 PM CDT, Alexander Jacocks via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:  
 
 Folks,
I just lucked into an Axil 255, which I had never actually heard of. There was a post on this list back in 2002 where someone had one, but I apparently missed it.
The machine even works, except for the (expected) IDPROM failure:

> Axil-255, No Keyboard
> ROM Rev. 2.15, 128 MB memory installed, Serial #11184826.
> Ethernet address aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa, Host ID: aaaaaaba.
>
>
> The IDPROM contents are invalid
>
> Boot device: /iommu/sbus/ledma at 4,8400010/le at 4,8c00000  File and args:
> Internal loopback test -- Did not receive expected loopback packet.
> 
> Can't open boot device
> 
> Type  help  for more information
Color me happy! I'll have to do some investigating and testing.
I'm going to guess that the original MAC address and hostid are lost, but since I don't have any HDDs installed in it, yet, that's not a big deal.
Has anyone else either used, or still got, one of these?
- Alex

  
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