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William Janssen <billj@calweb.com> writes:

>Just got a 630 MP running and when I tried to install Solaris 7
>I got a message "This hardware not supported" or something like that.

>Solaris 4 worked OK.

You mean SunOS 4.x here I think. 8-) Unless you are referring to Solaris 2.4
(aka SunOS 5.4) which did still support them.

>Anything I should or can change?

If you want to use Solaris 2.x on the machine the last version that had
complete support (including support for the VME bus and associated hardware)
was 2.5.1 (aka SunOS 5.5.1). This was all dropped in Solaris 2.6 (aka SunOS
5.6), but you can still use the machine with just the CPU board running
stand-alone if you manually patch the kernel to code-out a loop that checks
the machine type and aborts if a 4/6x0 is detected.

The process is detailed on my web page at:

http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick/data/sunos_6x0.html

I have a 4/6x0 board installed in one of the old Sun 3-slot deskside tower
cases, and it works fine running SunOS 5.6 with the patched kernel.

The hack should also work with SunOS 5.7 (slightly different patch needed -
can someone forward me the differences so I can make a note on the page
please?), and probably with SunOS 5.8 (aka Solaris [2.]8) as well, but I
don't know anyone who's tried to patch a SunOS 5.8 kernel to run on them
yet.

Also note that you cannot use any of the really old SM-100 type Ross CPU
modules - they have to be TI Supersparc modules or better (but I don't think
the SM-71 and SM-81 Supersparc-2 modules will work).

The last revision of the bootROM for the 4/6x0's was 2.14v3 and I'm pretty
sure there wasn't ever another one. The FE manual doesn't list anything
newer, so stick with SM-41/51/52/61 Supersparc modules, or use some of the
90+ Mhz Hypersparc modules and you should be ok.

Regards,

Craig.
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