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- From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: An Xy450/Xy451 in a Sun4/110
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.200343.2170@ukw.uucp>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:03:43 GMT
- References: <Bx8rvx.F8x@lysator.liu.se>
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- pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
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- >Is it possible to install a Xy450/Xy451 (with a Multibus-VMEbus adapter)
- >in a Sun4/110? I just tried to insert a Xy451 that used to sit in a
- >Sun4/200, but all I got was panic: Data fault etc...
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- >How should the dip switches be set if one wants to install such
- >a card into a Sun4/110?
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- >The machine is running SunOS 4.1.1
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- There is a very simple explanation: The 4/110 is the only Sun
- VMEbus machine that does not support VMEbus DMA. All VMEbus
- disk controllers Sun used do DMA, as one would expect.
-
- Result: you can only attach SCSI disks to your 4/110.
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