On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:43 -0800, Gilbert Wong wrote: > I think I do recall that Ultra20/Ultra20M2 motherboard was a Tyan Tomcat. > But not really sure. The Ultra 27, after opening up the case and looking, it > has the Sun stamped name. Now that does not necessarily mean that they are > the actual manufacturer. And apologize if I worded it that way. But like > some computer companies, they have a list of requirements and have other > vendors make it for them and call it their own. That could be the case here, > but don't quote me on it.
Thanks Gilbert. To the best of my knowledge, Sun is not manufacturing x86 based boards - no need to reinvent the wheel and more cost effective for them to select from existing plethora of options. I happen to have a few Tyan K8E, S2865 based systems, so I was pretty golden when Sun started using these same boards - only real difference was that they omitted the PS2 connectors entirely. I guess they wised up and are now requiring their ODM to Sun brand the boards. A bit of a bummer actually because given the recent financial chain of events, I would have less confidence in some unknown ODM'er board than, for example, a board that I knew came from Tyan. Yeah, I know, legendary hardware but it's Oracle I'm worried about... ;-P Thanks again. P.S.; If you don't mind opening up the case again and checking mobo for model numbers, maybe I can correlate it that way. -- Ken Gunderson <kgund...@teamcool.net> _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
