Again, thanks to:
Pitcher, Glenn
Robert T. Clift
Jim Harmon
Eugene Kramer
Benjamin Cline
Matthew Stier
David J. Knight
<hoffman@cs.pitt.edu>
Arora, Samir
Tom Erickson
Pell Emanuelsson
Glenn Satchell - Uniq
Matt Reynolds
Birger A. Wathne
Dave Floyd
Stefan Voss
Daniel Lorenzini
D. Ellen March
Dennis Evans
Raymond F. Rodebaugh
Tim Carlson
John DiMarco
Original question:
> I have a pile of old Sparcstation-10 machines and I was trying to turn
> one of them into a half way decent server for a small project. One of
> the things that I recalled about the SS-10 is that the CPU module plugs
> into an "mbus" connector and that there are two mbus connectors in the
> machine. What I was hoping was that this meant you could plug two CPU
> modules in and turn the machine into a dual processor. I ripped apart
> a few machines, located two identical CPU boards, and attempted to plug
> them into one of the machines. The machine will not boot. I know that
> the two CPU boards are good because the machine boots with whichever of
> the two I plug in, as long as I only plug in one board.
>
> Is it just wishful thinking on my part that I could plug in two CPU's?
> Is there some jumper or something that needs to be set to enable multiple
> processors? If I can't plug in a second CPU, what the heck is the second
> mbus connector for? The only reference I could find in any of the
> documentation is a vague statement about the machine coming "equipped with
> one or more MBus modules".
-- David H. Brierley Raytheon Electronic Systems - Portsmouth RI Facility Work: dhb@ssd.ray.com Home: dave@galaxia.com