sparcengine axi motherboard P/N 501-4559

it is commonly called an Axi board... it was in workstations, servers and custom applications.... worth between $100 and $800 for the board (some idiot was buying them off ebay for scary prices). it takes U5/U10 cpus, 1 gig of ram and thankfully has scsi instead of ATA...

I don't know if Sun still has it on its website, here is a link for another site...

http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.0/infoserver.central/data/syshbk/Systems/SUPF E/sparcengine_ultra_axi.html

anything else you want to know?

haroldkarl

haroldba at 2007-7-29 17:03:28 >

Hello,

I was looking for the specific systems it was used in.

From Sun: None. It's was a "board-level" product from Sun Microelectronics for OEM use.

I own a UltraSPARC AXi (desktop system from PDSi). The german company Transtec sold the hamstation/hamserver U10. These systems are/have been based on genuine Sun SPARCengine Ultra AXi (SUAXI).

You can use upto 440MHz cpu modules (requires a recent OBP). Upto 4 256MB (11-bit column address) or upto 8 32MB (10-bit column address) RAM modules can be used.

Tatung used a DTK board with was a variant of the SUAXI. This board is limted to 333MHz modules, required a plugable VRM and had an additional 50-pin SCSI connector. Even if the board reports beeing a SPARCengine AXi, the OBP and POST differ. Neither firmware updates nor documentation for the DTK board are available (now).

Michael

MAALATFTa at 2007-7-29 17:03:28 >