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Operating Systems Solaris sun ultra or sun sparkstation Post 43281 by rhfrommn on Friday 14th of November 2003 11:02:47 AM
Old 11-14-2003
I believe the main difference is Sparcstations use the UltraSparc cpu while Ultra workstations use the UltraSparc II. Sparcstations were already starting to show their age when I first started doing Sun admin in 1997. Using one now is like firing up your old Commodore 64, might be fun and you might learn something if you've never used Unix - but it is totally obsolete as far as doing work or running current OS and applications goes.

Definately the Ultra workstation will be better. Although even those haven't been sold new for a year or two. At least the low end ones with 1 cpu like the Ultra 5 and Ultra 10. If you want to spend tens of thousands Sun might still sell you a quad cpu Ultra 80 or something like that. The current low end Sun workstations are the Sun Blade models which start right around $1000.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

adv

ADV(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    ADV(4)

NAME

     adv -- ConnectCom Solutions AdvanSys SCSI adapter driver

SYNOPSIS

     adv* at pci? dev ? function ?
     adv0 at isa? port ? irq ? drq ?
     adv* at cardbus? function ?
     scsibus* at adv?

DESCRIPTION

     The adv driver supports the following AdvanSys SCSI host adapters

   PCI bus
     Connectivity Products:
	   ABP920	Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB)
	   ABP930	Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB) (note 1)
	   ABP930U	Bus-Master PCI Ultra (16 CDB)
	   ABP930UA	Bus-Master PCI Ultra (16 CDB)
	   ABP960	Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC (16 CDB) (note 2)
	   ABP960U	Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra (16 CDB) (note 2)

     Notes:
     1.   This board has been sold by SIIG as the Fast SCSI Pro PCI.
     2.   This board has been sold by Iomega as a Jaz Jet PCI adapter.

     Single Channel Products:
	   ABP940	Bus-Master PCI (240 CDB)
	   ABP940U	Bus-Master PCI Ultra (240 CDB)
	   ABP970	Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC (240 CDB)
	   ABP970U	Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra (240 CDB)
	   ABP940UW	Bus-Master PCI Ultra-Wide (240 CDB)

     Multi Channel Products:
	   ABP950	Dual Channel Bus-Master PCI (240 CDB Per Channel)
	   ABP980	Four Channel Bus-Master PCI (240 CDB Per Channel)
	   ABP980U	Four Channel Bus-Master PCI Ultra (240 CDB Per Channel)

   ISA bus
     Connectivity Products:
	   ABP510/5150	Bus-Master ISA (240 CDB) (note 1)
	   ABP5140	Bus-Master ISA (16 CDB) (note 1) (note 2)
	   ABP5142	Bus-Master ISA with floppy (16 CDB) (note 3)

     Notes:
     1.   This board has been shipped by HP with the 4020i CD-R drive.	The board has no BIOS so it cannot control a boot device, but it can con-
	  trol any secondary SCSI device.
     2.   This board has been sold by SIIG as the i540 SpeedMaster.
     3.   This board has been sold by SIIG as the i542 SpeedMaster.

     Single Channel Products:
	   ABP542	Bus-Master ISA with floppy (240 CDB)
	   ABP842	Bus-Master VL (240 CDB)

     Dual Channel Products:
	   ABP852	Dual Channel Bus-Master VL (240 CDB Per Channel)

SEE ALSO

     cd(4), ch(4), intro(4), isa(4), pci(4), scsi(4), sd(4), st(4)

     http://www.connectcom.net/

     http://www.siig.com/

HISTORY

     The adv device driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

AUTHORS

     Baldassare Dante Profeta <dante@mclink.it>

BSD
								   June 4, 1999 							       BSD
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