new find: Sun Ultra 10

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri Jan 30 20:23:00 2004

At 05:17 PM 1/30/04 -0800, you wrote:
>> > Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but it goes into terminal
>> > mode because I don't have a keyboard attached.
>>
>> And won't boot as well? Odd.
>
>I suspect he's stuck at the OpenBoot prompt with no way of telling it to
>boot.
>
>> > No idea of the amount of memory or CPU speed since I can't get to the
>> > OS.
>>
>> Older Suns report their RAM config and at least some info about their
>> CPU in the ROM-generated banner. If it has the "ok " prompt the older
>> machines use, typing "banner" at it might do something useful.
>
>An Ultra 10 will take a max of 1Gb. The CPU speeds range from 300Mhz -
>440Mhz, IIRC. It should display this info on the screen when you power it
>on.
>
>It's a nice machine, but unless you can replace the IDE disk with a SCSI
>controller and disk, the disk is a real bottleneck. My 300Mhz U10 came with
>an ATA33 disk that didn't even run at 5400RPM! I still need to get it
>switched to SCSI :^(
>
> Zane
>

  I just got home and opened it up. Things are looking good! It has four
sticks of Kingston KTS7030/512 memory. I looked them up online. Each pair
is 512Mb so that means it has 1Gb of RAM! The hard drive is a Seagate
Barracuda II model ST320420A. That's an Ultra ATA/66 8.5 mS 7200RPM 20.4Gb
drive. It's not SCSI but it will do! The CPU is PN 501-5040. That's a 300
Mhz UltraSpark IIi CPU with a ceramic CPU and 512k cache. It's not the
fastest thing out there but again, it will do!

  Now where can I find Windeos for this thing? :-)

  Seriously, I found an Adaptec AHA-2940W/2940UW PCI SCSI controller today.
Will it work in the SUN?

   Joe

    Joe
Received on Fri Jan 30 2004 - 20:23:00 GMT