Are all SPARC 5s create equal?

[tolstoy]

Are all SPARC 5s basically the same? The reason I ask is because I want to throw some more memory into mine, but, being very unfamilar with sun platforms, I'm wondering if mine will take the same RAM as any other SPARC 5. I guess I have some research to do.

[Schotty]

Hmm, that one has me. I would say check on Sun's webpage. Check from what you got/will be getting to what is required for that box. I found a little doodad that does that on their page.

[Killer_Penguin]

Most have the same base, and same parts, just a different arrangement of parts. I think that the system board is the same across all of them, so memory from one sparc5 should work in another sparc5.

[Ashcrow]

AFAIK they all take the same memory compnents. The speeds and amount of memory/slots are diffrent between versions of Sparc 5's.

[kornp]

I good source for resources on older sparcs is www.obsolyte.com ooh, and if you got some extra ram for a sparc 5...i would be intersted, mine only has 32 megs

[alc6379]

Yeah... I have 80 Megs in mine...

That and 2 hard drives...

I want to get more-- These things could be stacked on top of each other quite easily. Then I could accomplish two things:

1.) Have an impressive looking, yet unimpressive performing cluster,

2.) Heat the majority of my house.
;D

[kornp]

[quote author=alc6379 link=board=10;threadid=3664;start=0#38457 date=1024346748]
Yeah... I have 80 Megs in mine...

That and 2 hard drives...

I want to get more-- These things could be stacked on top of each other quite easily. Then I could accomplish two things:

1.) Have an impressive looking, yet unimpressive performing cluster,

2.) Heat the majority of my house.
;D
[/quote]
how much total HD space do you have then? I've got 1 gig in mine. And how fast is yours? (mine's 110 mhz). Also, what OS are you running on it, solaris? I have netBSD on mine but it's giving me some problems, so I'm thinking I might give debian a try.