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Sun Ultra 5 new user
Hi

I have just acquired an Ultra 5. It has 256MB of memory and a 360Mhz Ultra IIi SPARC processor. So far, I have had some typical fun and games to get it working:
- It had a dead NVRAM chip. I hacked it open and installed a CR2032. It looks suitably bodged up, but is working. I set the MAC address and machine ID to some existing values that were on a web site (how to), because my machine is connected to a LAN and accesses the Internet via a router.
- There was no hard drive, so I slung in an old 8.2GB hard disk.
- I then installed Solaris 2.6 and configured it for DHCP. It can connect to the Internet.

So far, so good.

I have some questions though and I hope you can help.

What is the latest version of Solaris that will run comfortably on this machine? I have a copy of Solaris 10 but it will not boot (with a DVD reader installed it complains that it hasn't got enough memory). But I read that Solaris 10 on these machines is too slow.

Is the memory really limited to 512Mb? If that is true, how does the Ultra 10 (which I read uses the Ultra 5 motherboard) manage a maximum of 1Gb?

Is it "safe" to connect to the Internet? I'm thinking "vulnerabilities" here. Bear in mind it is sitting behind a firewall. I would like to be able to SSH into it from outside.

I notice it has no C compiler. What is the best approach for getting this installed, and how do I do it?

Finally, what's the best (fastest, most secure, easiest to use) Linux distribution for this and can it dual boot?

Thanks
JonB
 
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isp

ISP(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    ISP(4)

NAME

     isp -- Qlogic based SCSI and FibreChannel SCSI Host Adapters

SYNOPSIS

     isp* at pci? dev? function? (PCI)
     isp* at sbus? slot ? offset ? (SBus)
     scsibus* at isp?

DESCRIPTION

     This driver provides access to SCSI or FibreChannel devices.

     SCSI features include support for Ultra SCSI and wide mode transactions for SCSI, and LVD (for the ISP1080 and ISP1280),

     Fibre Channel support uses FCP SCSI profile for FibreChannel.  and uses Class 3 connections only.	Support is available for Public and Pri-
     vate loops.  Command tagging is supported for all (in fact, FibreChannel requires tagging).

CONFIGURATION

     An optional flags 0x80 appended to the above isp* declarations will disable the download of driver firmware, which means you use whatever
     firmware is running on the card.  If no firmware is running on the card, the driver cannot operate the card.

     An optional flags 0x40 appended to the above isp* declarations (can be OR'd in with the other config flags option) will keep the driver from
     looking at device or bus NVRAM settings (this is in case NVRAM is just wrong and you have the card in a platform where it is inconvenient to
     change NVRAM settings on the card).

HARDWARE

     Supported cards include:

	   ISP1000
		   SBus Fast Wide, Ultra Fast Wide cards, Single Ended or Differential cards.

	   PTI SBS440
		   Performance Technology ISP1000 variants.

	   ISP1020
		   Qlogic 1020 Fast Wide and Differential Fast Wide PCI cards.

	   ISP1040
		   Qlogic 1040 Ultra Wide and Differential Ultra Wide PCI cards.

	   PTI SBS450
		   Performance Technology ISP1040 variants.

	   Qlogic 1240
		   Qlogic 1240 Dual Bus Ultra Wide and Differential Ultra Wide PCI cards.

	   Qlogic 1080
		   Qlogic 1280 LVD Ultra2 Wide PCI cards.

	   Qlogic 1280
		   Qlogic 1280 Dual Bus LVD Ultra2 Wide PCI cards.

	   Qlogic 2100
		   Qlogic 2100 and 2100A Copper and Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop

	   Qlogic 2102
		   Qlogic Dual Loop 2100A Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop PCI cards.

	   Qlogic 2200
		   Qlogic 2200 Copper and Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop PCI cards.

	   Qlogic 2202
		   Qlogic 2200 Dual Bus Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop PCI cards.

	   Qlogic 2204
		   Qlogic 2200 Quad Bus Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop PCI cards.

	   Qlogic 2300
		   Qlogic 2300 2-Gigabit Optical Fibre Channel PCI cards.

	   Qlogic 2312
		   Qlogic 2300 2-Gigabit Dual Channel Optical Fibre Channel PCI cards.

	   PTI SBS470
		   Performance Technology ISP2100 variants.

	   Antares P-0033
		   Antares Microsystems ISP2100 variants.

	   Qlogic 2400
		   Qlogic 2400 4-Gigabit Optical Fibre Channel PCI cards.

	   Qlogic 2500
		   Qlogic 2500 8-Gigabit Optical Fibre Channel PCI cards.

SEE ALSO

     cd(4), intro(4), scsi(4), sd(4), st(4)

AUTHORS

     The isp driver was written by Matthew Jacob for NASA/Ames Research Center.

BUGS

     The driver currently ignores some NVRAM settings.

     The driver currently doesn't do error recovery for timed out commands very gracefully.

     Sometimes, when booting, the driver gets stuck waiting for the Fibre Channel firmware to tell it that the loop port database is ready.  In
     this case you'll see an announcement that the loop state has a value of 0x1.  To unwedge the system, unplug and replug the fibre channel con-
     nection, or otherwise cause a LIP (Loop Initialization Primitive sequence) - this will kick the firmware into getting unstuck.

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