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I thought I'd add some info based on my SPARCbook 2...

In article <E9KG9C.2ny.0.ocelot@ocelot.demon.co.uk>,
Tim Thorpe <tim@ocelot.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>"suzan" <suzan@islandnet.com> said:

>Yes, it uses standard Mostek NVRAM chip. I had a problem, though. The
>chip I obtained as an equivalent was physically slightly too large. I
>made it fit by filing bits off, but this is obviously a bit risky.

I don't recall seeing the usual MK48T02 (or whatever) inside my SB2.
I _did_ see the EPROM.

>> Can I replace the 174M internal 2.5" IDE drives with larger capacity
>> drives?
>
>My experience says "sort of", though others seem to have done better.
>I put in a 540Mb Seagate. 
>That meant it could only go in the second (expansion disk) slot. I was
>not able to make it IDE slave/disk2 (no, I dont really know what I mean).
>It refused to work as a place to save memory for fast save/restore.
>I had to move the memory save partition to the remaining original 174Mb
>disk. 

You know, I could swear that the disks in my SB2 are 2.5-inch SCSI disks,
the kind you can't get no more for love nor money.  I could especially
swear to that as I've had to replace one of them (Don't ever, ever drop
your SPARCbook two feet onto concrete, even if it is in its carrying
case!) and used the largest I could find, so now I have a 324MB and an
810MB in mine.

>> How fast is this machine, say relative to a 486DX class system?
>
>Disk and graphics are pretty slow by current standards, my 486 is
>faster (with Linux) for many things. Not so portable, though.

I'd even describe my SB2 as sluggish.  Solaris tends to swap things out
over time, so if you've left your machine sitting there idle, it'll
take a while to get going again as it swaps your application(s) in.

I'm also surprised nobody's mentioned the flakey keyboard yet (or is
it just mine??).

And while I have some attention, has anyone managed to get one to boot
over the Ethernet, using BOOTP for address assignment?  I hate typing
those addresses by hand when experimenting.
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