New_boy

New toy, v125

I had some free time and i got round playing with the v125.

Its a really nice machine at least from the pictures, since i only get to use hardware remotely.
I loaded s10u3 and i logged in through alom and it wasss wayy slow.
Time to read the product notes,

and indeed i was hitting the two bugs mentioned in the prodcut notes.

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/html/819-7424-10/prodnotes.html#pgfId-1002207

I folowed the guidelines and i installed ALOM 1.6.2 console was just as normal nice and super fast, and i noticed
it had a nice progress bar with percentage instead of plain dots.

Another feature i saw cripping in is the asr facilityin obp. Would be quite usefull for debuging unfortunately my machine had only 2 sticks of 512mb so i could not go disable a bank

ok printenv
Variable Name Value Default Value

asr-policy normal normal

--- snip ---

ok asr-list-keys

key = usb /pci@1e,600000/@a
key = ide /pci@1e,600000/@d
key = net2&3 /pci@1d,700000/@2
key = net0&1 /pci@1f,700000/@2
key = scsi /pci@1c,600000/@2
key = hcm /pci@1c,600000/@1
key = pci2 /pci@1e,600000/@2
key = pci1 /pci@1e,600000/@3
key = pci0 /pci@1d,700000/@1
key = dimm3
key = dimm2
key = dimm1
key = dimm0

-- snip--

latest obp
ok .version
Release 4.22.17 created 2006/08/04 19:02
OBP 4.22.17 2006/08/04 19:02 Sun Fire V125
OBDIAG 4.22.17 2006/08/04 19:16
POST 4.22.17 2006/08/04 19:30

Seems really quick and snappy on the first few tests i done although its the same frequency as older models
==================================== CPUs ====================================
E$ CPU CPU
CPU Freq Size Implementation Mask Status Location
--- -------- ---------- --------------------- ----- ------ --------
0 1002 MHz 1MB SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi 3.4 on-line MB/P0

will continue playing and let you know.

Posted at 12:00πμ Δεκ 12, 2006 by Ioannis Psyllas in Sun  |  Comments[0]