SUMMARY: How to tell SS10/30 from SS10/41 during bootup?

From: Sandiway Fong (sandiway@research.nj.nec.com)
Date: Thu Mar 25 1993 - 14:23:12 CST


[Many thanks to everyone who emailed me, khaw@parcplace.com,
cmeyer@bloch.stanford.edu, klfergason@amoco.com, curt@ecn.purdue.edu,
guy@auspex.com. Sorry if I missed anyone.]

Let me count the ways...

Bootup messages.

* A model 41 says on boot-up - SuperSPARC/SuperCache PAC Enabled.
        A model 30 will just say - SuperSPARC PAC enabled.
        (Presumably a model 20 will pattern like the model 30.)

* cpu = SUNW,SPARCstation-10
        mod0 = TI,TMS390Z55 (mid = 8) => model 41 or 20.
        mod0 = TI,TMS390Z50 (mid = 8) => model 30.

>From these two messages, you can uniquely identify all three models 20, 30 and
41.

With the cover off. Look at the processor card.

* One black "can" => model 30 or 20.
        Two black "cans" => model 41.
        (also model 52, but they don't exist yet.)

* I guess that the TI part no is also marked somewhere on the can.

>From SunOS.

* /usr/etc/devinfo -pv (SunOS 4.1.3)
* /usr/sbin/prtconf -pv (Sun0S 5.x)

Look at 'clock-frequency:' and compare value with the following:

        frequency model
        ------------------------
        017d7840 20
        02255100 30
        02625a00 41
        02aea540 52 or 54

I hope this is reasonably comprehensive. Usenet is wonderful...

Sandiway

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