From: Gregory Elkinbard Subject: Re: 2Qs: Can I upgrade a Sun 386i and how do I create a boot tape for it? Date: 1997/04/04 Message-ID: <3344B9F2.33CA@thegrid.net>#1/1 References: <1377@crane.ukc.ac.uk> <5hvqao$h7s@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de> Organization: Call America Internet Services +1 (800) 563-3271 Reply-To: elkinbar@thegrid.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc Michael Engel wrote: > > > It's a DX25. Rumours tell that there were some 486i produced by Sun, so > I'd give it a try ... The was a small production run of 486i upgrade motherboards. No systems were produced just motheboards. Good luck in finding one. A chip upgrade should be possible. Althrough I don't know if you can get an internal cache to work with that design. 386i were pretty finicky as far as tape drives were concerned. You could only boot them from the 60 meg archives that came with them. The wangtechs sometimes would work and sometimes didn't. If the tapes are readable but not bootable you should be able to do a diskless boot of another machine. Greg