[rescue] sun software repository ??

[john]

I've been able to put two fully functional SPARC10's together one
running on hard drives and the other on SCSI2SD.B I thought it might be
interesting to try to benchmark the performance, especially to see what
effect differing sizes of SWAP space might have.B Providing vast swap
space is pretty easy with the SCSI2SD adapter since the V5 version can
offer 4 SCSI ID's hence 4 2Gig drives and I have nowhere near enough
stuff to fill these, so vacant space can be used for swap.

so the question is, does anyone know where i can find benchmark software
suitable to evaluate SunOS 4.1.4 performance?

Second question: Sun made 100baseT Sbus cards.B They look interesting
and are available for cheap but require SunFastEthernet 1.1 software if
one expects the thing to work. Googling doesn't produce much hope of
finding it.B Any ideas there?

john
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[Peter Stokes]

Hi John

I may have it, will take a look over next few days, if you do not hear from
me, give me a nudge....!

Peter

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I've been able to put two fully functional SPARC10's together one running on

hard drives and the other on SCSI2SD.B I thought it might be interesting to
try to benchmark the performance, especially to see what effect differing
sizes of SWAP space might have.B Providing vast swap space is pretty easy
with the SCSI2SD adapter since the V5 version can offer 4 SCSI ID's hence 4
2Gig drives and I have nowhere near enough stuff to fill these, so vacant
space can be used for swap.

so the question is, does anyone know where i can find benchmark software

suitable to evaluate SunOS 4.1.4 performance?

Second question: Sun made 100baseT Sbus cards.B They look interesting and

are available for cheap but require SunFastEthernet 1.1 software if one
expects the thing to work. Googling doesn't produce much hope of finding it.B
Any ideas there?

john
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[Mike Spooner]

Subject: [rescue] sun software repository ??
...
Second question: Sun made 100baseT Sbus cards.B They look interesting
and are available for cheap but require SunFastEthernet 1.1 software if
one expects the thing to work. Googling doesn't produce much hope of
finding it.B Any ideas there?
john

SunFastEtherNet 1.x is first-generation Sun 100MB/sec hardware, in one form:

1. X1056A "BigMac" card

This uses the "be" device-driver which is built-in to Solaris 2.4, 2.5,
2.5.1 and 2.6.
For Solaris 4.1.3, 4.1.3u1, 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.3 HW 5/95, the
SunFastEthernet Software 1.1 CD is needed. Other SunOS and Solaris versions
are *not supported*.

The "BigMac" can only do half-duplex, thus can be difficult to make work
with some modern switches. It was also notoriously buggy at the
hardware/register level, requiring the (unbundled) device-driver software
to perform considerable contortions just to make the thing work at least
somewhat reliably.

SunFastEthernet 2.x is a 2nd-generation Sun 100MB/sec hardware, in two
forms, both based on the "HappyMealEthernet" controller core:

1. X1059A "Colossus-Lite" card
2. X1018A "Colossus" card, formally known as SunSwift adaptor. This
also provides an external 20Mb/sec Fast_Wide-SCSI port.

Both of these use the "hme" device-driver which is built-in to Solaris 2.5
11/95 through Solaris 9. For SunOS 4.1.3u1 through Solaris 2.4, you need
the SunFastEthernet Software 2.1 CD.

The HappyMeal is much less buggy than BigMac, and can do full-duplex.
However, you still sometimes need to *force* duplex mode either in OpenBOOT
or at the O/S level, rather than letting it auto-negotiate
half-/full-duplex when connecting to some particular switches; it always
negotiates speed correctly, but the IEEE specs for autonegotiation of
full-/half-duplex were not quite as 100% unambiguous as could have been
hoped, and some manufacturers had different opinions about how to interpret
the duplex-negotiation specs (hint: Sun were probably overly liberal in
interpretation).

*** I have an original SunFastEthernet 2.1 Software CD *** (original Sun
package purchased in 1996), which I could turn into a downloadable ISO
file, if you so wish.

Based on having to live with both "be" and "hme" for quite a while, on both
my SPARCstation-10s, as well as an SS-20 and SS-1000E, I strongly recommend
you try to get an "hme" card, either X1018A SunSwift or X1059A
SunFastEthernet-2.x.

Regards,
Mike
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