What sparcs are people running?

Sunthief · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:03 am Post subject:

I just got my server up and running, Specs are in my signature.

I just wanted to add the hard drive I got working:
2x18gb Seagate ultra 160 SCSI Raid(1 - Mirror)
4x36gb Seagate ultra 160 SCSI Raid(5 - Parity across)
4x250GB IBM/Hitachi ATA 133 IDE

I love this server, its very stable and is easy to work with. Too bad it weighs a ton!
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Sun E-250 Enterprise Server
Dual 400Mhz 64bit Ultra Sparc CPU's
2GB Ram

snunezcr · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: Sparc cluster

Hi,

Running a cluster of 10 x (Sun Blade 100, 20GB HDD, 128 RAM)
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antique · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:09 am Post subject: U2 popular

Seems a lot of people really love their Ultra 2's. I was lucky enough to pick one up for $20CDN on eBay. It didn't come with a hard drive and listed the RAM as 64MB, which made me a bit suspicious since I thought the minimum configuration was 128MB - and lucky for me it was just a matter of a stick of RAM not being seated properly.

[eddie]
Sun Ultra Enterprise 2
1 processor running at 200MHz
128MB RAM
2 x 9.1GB 10,000 RPM SCSI drives

[sam]
Sun Sparcstation 5
110MHz processor
2.1GB SCSI drive
added hme card for 100MB/s NIC

I just pulled the second 9.1GB drive from the Sparc. The Ultra is 3 days old (since the SPUD brackets came in for the drives), but I was using the Sparc to SSH into from work and run some command-line tools. I have to use Windows at work, but I'm optimistic that will change real soon!

antique

vicz · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 4 Location: UK

Name: baron
Type: Ultra 10
Procs: 400Mhz
RAM: 512MB
HDD: 13GB Maxtor (solaris 10) 9 GB WD (Linux Gentoo/Debian/FreeBSD)
Video: On board (Pulled Creator3d)
Monitor: IBM E74

Shacked up with iMac G3 (Gentoo) iMac G3 (Yellowdog) PB3400 (Debian) iMac G4 (OSX) Tosh Laptop (Gentoo) Dell Laptop (XP) iBook G3 (OSX) IBM Thinkpad (W2k) - all playin' nice.

vicz · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 4 Location: UK

jshanab · Guru Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 359

I have a E4500 6 processor 2Gig machine. (I have knocked it down to 4 cpu's to save power. (It can heat the room in 1/2 hour))

I know sound in the older sparc archetecture is accessed off of the sbus, but does anyone know if there was ever actually a "sbus sound card"

will this work as a sound card ? EBAY: 5858925421
How about sbus to pcmcia bridge and a pcmcia sound card ? :-)

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hamal: Gentoo 2.6.16-gentoo-r4, athlonxp 1600 with gnome,reiserfs, LVM2.
jeffnote Gentoo 2.6.20-suspend2-r?, IBM T22
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kyphros · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 10

I have 2.6.15 working on two V210s (UP only, SMP hangs), and on a Blade 100. I'll try and get an X1 running one of these days, shouldn't be too hard.

Abbadon · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 13

As soon as I can make room for it I will be running a U60. The hard part is I got the Sun 21" monitor with the thing and they are HUGE!

jammey97 · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Posts: 26

Ultra 60 Elite 3D
2x 450MHz UltraSPARC II
2x 18GB 10krpm Cheetah
2GB RAM

Ultra 2 Enterprise
2x 143MHz UltraSPARC I
4.5GB 7200RPM
128MB RAM

I have 2.6.15 up and running on the Ultra 60. Haven't mucked about with the Ultra 2 just yet; I want to get some more RAM for it before installing. A couple of 300mhz USparcII's for it would be nice too ;-)

Yarrick · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

I have an Enterprise 250 with dual 296mhz cpus, 768mb ram and 6x18gb 10krpm disks.

Running nice with 2.6.15

SteveWM · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject:

Hi all, from Montreal (Dorval)

Sparc & gentoo noob here, specs below.
From a stage 3 tarball it took about a week (on & off) to install, compile & configure X & Kde to load properly.
Thanks to gentoo devs & this forum.

To do list;
1. tweak this install & try to improve kde or ditch it for something lighter
2. find a quieter HD, the whining from these dinosaurs is too much

edit:
Done list;
1. making some progress, cut 40 secs from boot time - down to slightly more than a minute
2. replaced old 4.1 disks with a new & quiet 9g IBM

To do list;
1. now that I can hear the fans I should replace them with something quieter
2. try and get sound to work
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Ultra 2 Enterprise
1x 300MHz cpu / 1G ram / 9G hd / Creator 3D
2.4.32.sparc-r1 / X 6.8.2-r4 / kde 3.4.3

nl0pvm · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Netherlands

2 of my sparcs have drowned

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SUN E250 2 x UltrasparcII@400Mhz 512MB RAM 6 x 9GB Kernel 2.6.8 (SMP)
SUN E250 UltrasparcII@400Mhz 512MB RAM 2 x 9GB Kernel 2.6.11
SUN E250 UltrasparcII@400Mhz 1024MB RAM 2 x 9GB
SPARCstation 10 MP 2 x 390Z55@40Mhz 512MB RAM Kernel 2.4.30 4GB & 9GB

P3SM · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject:

Love Sparcs! They're the best!

My gear below:
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Smaug: Sun Netra T1 105, UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz, 512MB, 2*36GB 10kRPM; 2 Sun Netra D130: 6*36GB 10kRPM, swraid 0
Haku: Dual P3 Xeon 500MHz, 512MB; Sun Multipack: 12*18GB 10kRPM, hwraid 5
Falkor: Sun SparcStation LX, 128 MB, 2.1GB

luckyman · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Nitra

Hi everybody

I got my ultrasparc10 from my boss. on the beggining when i was sticked to X11 it was too slow as a uptodate workstation, because the earlier ones are limited with ide, the chipset seems to not to support dma...
But now it is pretty cool and stable for remote work. it is very reliable.
I use:

apache/php vhost
mysql
qmail
icecast & ices

the load is just-just fits to this sunny machine, cheers

miketigerwoods · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 17

I just got an Ultra 2 off of ebay:

elevator.music:
2x 300MHz
512MB
9GB Seagate

Just running headless on the floor right now until I get the quad-ethernet sbus card and replace my x86 athlon machine acting as the home router. Possibly move mysql and apache2 over to it and make the x86 solely for mythtv...

bazik · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 6:28 am Post subject:

I got a few new machines:

pulsar (primary workstation)
Sun Ultra 2, 2x 400MHz, 2048MB RAM, 2x 9.1 GB HD, Creator 3d Series 3

bewater (test machine)
Sun IPX, 40 MHz, 64MB RAM, 1x 4.3 GB HD

myfriend (another test machine)
Sun IPX, 40 MHz, 64MB RAM, 1x 4.3 GB HD

I also have two unnamed boxes. One is another Ultra 2 with 2x 300MHz/512MB RAM and the other is a Sun AXi with 440MHz and 512MB RAM. The latter one will go into a 3U Case and act as a file server soon.
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gust4voz · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:17 am Post subject:

My toys:

Ultra 5 (ayanami), 400mhz 512MB 146G SCSI.
2x V100 (horus & loki), 500mhz 1G 2x40G each.
Fire 280R (freya), 2x UltraSPARC III Cu 900mhz, 2G, 2x36G FCAL + matrox.

They're all running 2.6 in one form or another.
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Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey

sparc-kly · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 5 Location: neptune

SUn Ultra 5
360mhz
1gb ram
80Gb hard Disk
CDRW drive

Sun Ultra 2
200mhz x 2
512 ram
9.1gb x 2

Sun Ultra 5
270mhz
128mb ram
20gb Hard Drive

Gentoo Linux Power

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Sparc RLZ

chance2105 · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject:

donatello
Blade 2000, 2x1015 MHz (Ultrasparc III cu)
2 GB RAM
36 GB harddrive (Seagate fc-al)

After having issues with 2.4 kernels and time issues (yeah .. wave a stick at that, issues with a 2.4 kernel on this box) now running 2.6.15 just fine.

Adrien · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:00 am Post subject:

sp4rcbl4ze:
Sun Ultra 2 Creator
2 x 300MHz
896Mb RAM
2 x 9Gb SCSI @ 7200 rpm (fujitsu something)
Graphics: Sun FFB 67MHz Creator
Network: Sun Happy Meal onboard
Sun Quad Ethernet
SCSI Controller: Sun Swift (ESP)
audio controller: CS4231 APC DMA (SBUS)
Sun Mouse
Sun keyboard type 6

And I do strip the vmlinux

kellstr · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

Hey Gang,

I have had this box for a while and am finally working my way through the install. It is a Netra t1 105 with a 9 GB scsi HDD and a cd-rom named Chtorr. Does anyone have experience with installing quad cards in these boxes?

Kel

Plugin_baby · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject:

My first sparc is an ultra 10 named chickmagnet:

440MHz
512MB
40GB ide hd
creator 3D

Tiberizzle · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 9

my first sparc, ehehe

Sun E4500
12x 400MHz 8MB procs
12.0GB main memory
dual SBus QLogic isp1000's on a A1000 enclosure

I really want to get my hands on one of those PCI I/O boards... :wink:

spam_ · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject:

Ultra 80 4x450MHz, 2560MB RAM, 2x18GB 10k (sw raid1) + 1x18gb 10k external, 2xCreator3d (dual head xinerama on 21" displays @1600x1280x76), copper gigE (e1000) in the 64bit/66mhz slot, pci usb2 card, pci es1371 sound card (better than the onboard). Running the gcc-4.1 profile. I've had it for almost a year and it has run great the whole time. Cooks right along while compiling, but running web browsers and such remotely from the other gigabit-connected 2xXeon5160 boxes is far preferable to running them locally ;-)

It isn't even very loud, I can't hear it at all (including the disks) over the A/C unit in the next room over.