In , on 12/08/04 
   at 11:51 PM, "Don{ald} O. Woodall" said:

>     Evidently I don't know how to drill down.  My keyboard
>is acting up again so I can't type left arrow, grin, right arrow. Also,
>all I knew to try was www.sun.com.  Something called "sunsolve" never
>occurred to me.

Well, I work with Sun's so I knew the site exists.  However, in this case,
I got there by googling your part number.

>     Anyway, by now, you probably already know that Mike O'Connor dug
>down and shared the bad news with me.

It's not bad news.  It just means you need to get a Sun to use the card.
:-)  Suns are pretty nice boxes.  I can't remember the last time the ones
I work with crashed.  It does get rebooted now and then just to be safe. 
These are servers, so everything is hot-swap.  No need to power down to
replace a CPU or stuff like that.

>     What is on eBay appears to be an OEM derivation for Sun.  The last
>character in the model number is an "X" instead of a
"V".  It is a dual
>channel card instead of a single channel.

This is all interesting stuff, but not terribly helpful in determining
which Sun card will work in your PC.  The answer is if it has a Sun SPARC
compatible BIOS, which these cards do, you will not be able to use them
unless you can convince a PC BIOS to talk FORTH.  If you care to
understand why this is true, google for:

 sun sparc BIOS forth

Steven

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