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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">That's a SparcStation 5 clone, correct? Does it use a Sun motherboard or actual third party? Great find.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">mike<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 09:35:24 PM CDT, Alexander Jacocks via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpebb7ee6eyiv6950561438"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Folks,</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>The machine even works, except for the (expected) IDPROM failure:<br></div><div><br>> Axil-255, No Keyboard<br>> ROM Rev. 2.15, 128 MB memory installed, Serial #11184826.<br>> Ethernet address aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa, Host ID: aaaaaaba.<br>><br>><br>> The IDPROM contents are invalid<br>><br>> Boot device: /iommu/sbus/ledma@4,8400010/le@4,8c00000 File and args:<br>> Internal loopback test -- Did not receive expected loopback packet.<br>> <br>> Can't open boot device<br>> <br>> Type help for more information</div><div><br></div><div>Color me happy! I'll have to do some investigating and testing.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone else either used, or still got, one of these?</div><div><br></div><div>- Alex</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></div></div>
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