Original Question:
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We recently received 2 Sparc 10's. Unfortunately for us,
Sun is no longer shipping with Thick Ethernet, but is
using Twisted Pair, instead. It would have been nice
if we had known this when we were ordering. As it is,
we can't hook the 10's up to our network and Sun
seems to be considerably backordered -- Sun Express
doesn't carry them; GTSI is saying they don't expect
any until Dec 31! Sun Micro says 10 - 15 days.
Sounds like they were really thinking on this one.
Is anyone else having better success?
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1) The SS10 product brochure supposedly points out this
issue. I haven't seen the brochure, so I can't
vouch for this, but in any case, we ordered our
10's long before there were any brochures.
2) The sales rep actually brought this up with management.
Management said we didn't need the cable. OOPS!
3) Sun Express evidently got the cables faster than they
originally told me. Also, our sales rep hustled to
accelerate the order.
4) Some people got cables for FREE with their order.
5) You could stick with the TP connection and probably buy an appropriate
transceiver from commercial vendors like Cabletron.
We move machines to different nets, some with fiber (two different sizes),
some with Thick Ethernet, etc. We have lots of
transceivers already, so I'd just as soon stick with
a standard (formerly) AUI adapter.
6) The part number is X987A and it's about $75 list.
Thanks for all the speedy responses from:
Jim_Williams
Susan Tornroth
Harold Ravlin
Kari Vaaranen
Paul Begley
Richard B. Pyle
Rick Heaton
Jim Lick
Geoff.Whale
Geoff.Morrison
Carlo Musante
Mike Raffety
Jim Davis
Bruce R. Peterson
Perry_Hutchison
Stefan Mochnacki
Mike Rembis
Aydin Edguer
David Wiseman
Jan Berger Henriksen
Mike Garrett
Jeff Martin
Stefan Mochnacki
Charles A Finnell
ide!ide.com!kowal@uunet.UU.NET
Russ Poffenberger
John A. Murphy
Russ Bebb
Bob Smart -- who generously offered to share some cables
Billy F. Lewis
Michael_P._Kirby
Matt Goheen
Ed Strong
David Fetrow
Jim Davis
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